http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7679145.stm
Edit to add: I haven't read it all, but it looks like the files are all released here. Looks interesting:
http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/FreedomOfInformation/PublicationScheme/SearchPublicationScheme/UapInTheUkAirDefenceRegionVolume3.htm
V
Second edit ( the edit function not working all of a sudden?): It looks as though the lower link I gave isn't the item causing the news today after all, but something else.
V
Interesting V.
I remember seeing a documentary about the sightings in the 50's - all near an American airforce base. It turned out they were working on a secret plane or rocket or something - can't remember. (Perhaps it was even the development of the Blackbird?) That was what was seen and allowed to be named a UFO to cover up the milatary development from the Russians.
One reason that "UFO"s were often seen in East Anglia during that past couple of decades could be the presence of the Blackbird flying over there. I know it used to land at Lakenheath, so presume that at least one was based there. With the incredible speed and radar invisibility, if it shot past you, or above you, I guess it could look very alien.
Paintings here - scroll down and imagine that shooting past in a split second.
http://www.aviationartprints.com/lockheed_sr71.htm
Judy
Hi, Judy,
East Anglia was host to a number of USAF and RAF bases in the Cold War, yes, and secret missions such as regular nuke bomber runs went from there. However this by no means explains the phenomena reported during and since the 1950s there while the bases existed.
One incident had the Allied military themselves scrambling jets to intercept a UFO there, from Lakenheath. The object didn't behave like a terrestrial craft and wasn't ours. When a jet got close, he described a strange object, which then got behind and tailed him.
http://www.ufocasebook.com/bentwaters1956.html
Then the same bases were part of the greatest UFO encounter in UK history, at Rendlesham Forest, 1980, when a craft landed on repeated nights just outside the bases, and many people including the base commander stood near to it.
http://www.rendlesham-incident.co.uk/
Many books have been written about this. All principle witnesses were sent off to the four corners of the earth, so as not to talk about it - an object also seen by civilians and our police. It caused a major base alert (nukes were kept at the base) so was clearly not one of ours, and from its appearance not Soviet either. One book on this, "You Can't Tell the People", takes its title from Maggie Thatcher's response when asked about it.
V
Great minds think alike V! I was about to post this link when I saw your posts!
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20081020/tuk-near-miss-with-ufo-at-heathrow-45dbed5.html
All interesting stuff, eh?
Love and light
reikiangel
xxx