Via Huffington Post, the British Ministry of Defense is shutting down its UFO hotline.
LONDON — The truth – and the UFOs – may be out there, but nobody in the British military is listening anymore.
The Defense Ministry has quietly shut down its UFO hot line as a cost-cutting measure and will no longer investigate any sightings. Veterans of such investigations more worthy of “The X-Files” say it will end work on one of the biggest mysteries of all time.
No longer will Britons who think they’ve seen flying saucers be able to enlist the services of Her Majesty’s armed forces.
This week’s closing of the ministry’s hot line and its e-mail account, as well as its statement that it “will no longer respond to reported UFO sightings or investigate them,” has angered many Britons who believe such research is vital.
“I think it’s a stupid thing to do because this could create a threat to national security,” said Roy Lake, founder of the London UFO Studies group. “We take this quite seriously. We know that sometimes things can be explained as natural phenomena, but there could be that one thing that’s not. I think the government knows damn well what’s going on up there, and they’re covering it up.”
The hot line has been operating, on and off, since 1959. That’s longer than “Doctor Who” – British TV’s time-traveling, monster-fighting alien – has been on the airwaves.
The military is taking no position on the existence or nonexistence of UFOs but has concluded that in 50 years none of the more than 12,000 reported UFO sightings turned out to be a national security threat.
“None of the thousands of UFO sightings reported over the years have ever provided substantiated proof of the existence of extraterrestrials,” a Ministry of Defense spokesman said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with government policy. “There is no defense value in investigating UFO reports.”
It could mean that the British government has found no credible evidence of extra terrestials or (cue sinister music) the Aliens have finally infiltrated the British government at very high levels. Especially since the Vatican recently held its first astrobiology conference.
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