Churchill's UFO Flap (Allegedly)

[Wingknut]

Silly item really but sort-of flight-related. Today the BBC and other news media have been running stories about Churchill and UFO's. In particular, they've been claiming that newly-declassified documents suggest Churchill ordered the suppression of testimony from an RAF air-crew supposedly buzzed by a flying saucer during WW2. See:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10853905
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20100804/tuk-new-ufo-files-reveal-churchill-cover-dba1618.html

Details (like the kind of aircraft supposedly buzzed) seem to change from account to account, but I think the best bit is this quote:
"Mr Churchill is reported to have made a declaration to the effect, 'This event should be immediately classified since it would create mass panic among the general population and destroy one's belief in the Church.'" Source: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100805/tuk-churchill-banned-ufo-report-to-avoid-a7ad41d.html
However, it is also being claimed that "A trawl of documents revealed no existing record of the encounter." Source:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/did-churchill-and-eisenhower-cover-up-ufo-encounter-2043641.html

For at least the next month or so, the latest batch of U.K. government declassified UFO files can be found at:
http://ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

 

[RavenOne]

Silly item really but sort-of flight-related. Today the BBC and other news media have been running stories about Churchill and UFO's. In particular, they've been claiming that newly-declassified documents suggest Churchill ordered the suppression of testimony from an RAF air-crew supposedly buzzed by a flying saucer during WW2. See:

Churchill ordered UFO cover-up, National Archives show

Declassified files from the last century show government concerns over UFOs, and reveal that Winston Churchill ordered a cover-up to prevent "mass panic".

www.bbc.co.uk

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20100804/tuk-new-ufo-files-reveal-churchill-cover-dba1618.html

Details (like the kind of aircraft supposedly buzzed) seem to change from account to account, but I think the best bit is this quote:
"Mr Churchill is reported to have made a declaration to the effect, 'This event should be immediately classified since it would create mass panic among the general population and destroy one's belief in the Church.'" Source: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100805/tuk-churchill-banned-ufo-report-to-avoid-a7ad41d.html
However, it is also being claimed that "A trawl of documents revealed no existing record of the encounter." Source:

Did Churchill and Eisenhower cover up UFO encounter?

With a civilian population haunted by the Blitz and the Second World War still in the balance, it was one development Winston Churchill could have done without – an incursion into British airspace by an arrow-shaped metallic object feared to contain an invasion force of little green men.

www.independent.co.uk

For at least the next month or so, the latest batch of U.K. government declassified UFO files can be found at:

http://ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

Read Cosmic Crashe’s by Nick Redfern, first chapter is about that…and Lord Mountbatten and his relationship with a US reporter Dorothy Killgallen , whom later found passed away in mystery circumstances …drained 7n bath.

She was on about how a member of the Royal Family knew or inv9lved in a certain recovered craft on us shores end of Ww2 that was strapped to a B-17 and flown to Wright Pat.

Not sure if the murder of the viceroy at the hands of the IRA was implied connection to the post war incident.

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