英国防部解密UFO档案

　　Britain Thursday released 35 previously classified files documenting sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) by the military and members of the public dating back to the 1950s。

　　The files contain around 8,500 pages which mainly cover the periodfrom 1997 to 2005 and include photographs, drawings and descriptions offlying saucer sightings, as well as letters the Ministry of Defense(MoD) sent eyewitnesses in response to their accounts。

　　Policemen, a soldier, a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer and members ofthe public report sightings of objects including a "chewy mint shapedsolid craft" and aerial objects resembling a "ring," a "jellyfish" anda "silver voile spin top."

　　In one account a man said he believed he had been "abducted" byaliens in October 1998 after seeing an unidentified craft hover overhis London home and finding he had gained an hour of time in theprocess。

　　"It was a large cigar-shaped vehicle with big projectiles on each side like wings," he told the MoD。

　　"It seemed to have two very bright lights at the front and a whitelight flashing round and round underneath... As you can imagine, I feltquite shaken."

　　The MoD wrote to the man informing him that the object was probablyan airship, adding that the time he had gained was probably the resultof the clocks being put back one hour on the night of his closeencounter。

　　Another file released by the National Archives reveals how the RAFwas inundated with calls one morning in 1967 after residents ofsouthern England awoke to find six small beeping UFOs lying in aperfect line from the Isle of Sheppey to the Bristol Channel。

　　A bomb disposal unit blew up one of the UFOs, another was airliftedto the southeastern village of Aldermaston and both the army and theMoD's intelligence unit were mobilised for what was considered a real"alien invasion."

　　It was later discovered that engineering students at FarnboroughTechnical College had constructed and positioned the UFOs in a bid toraise money for charity。

　　"It does raise some questions about what really would happen if atany time in the future there was some kind of instant -- would we beprepared?" said David Clarke, author of "The UFO Files" and consultantto the National Archives' UFO project。

　　The files are available to download free of charge for one month at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ufos。