Fans of enormous government files will be overjoyed today as the National Archives release the third tranche of accumulated Ministry Of Defence (MoD) UFO-sightings bumf. The compiled MoD documents are available free here in glorious pdf for one month, after which period downloaders will be charged "a small fee". The files …

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Monday 17th August 2009 11:56 GMT RainForestGuppy

It's happened to us all

From the BBC website

• Two men from Staffordshire who told police that, as they returned home from an evening out in 1995, an alien appeared under a hovering UFO hoping to take them away

Happens to me all the time, kidnapped by aliens then taken on a trip to the twin moons of Stellar and Artois and back again via the Kebabula Nebula.

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Monday 17th August 2009 12:00 GMT amanfromMars 1

When the SurReal is More Real than the Spin is Virtual Reality the Default Program.

"thus even more stories and so on in a terrifying media feedback loop which will soon see all human communication paralysed by a horrendous glut of self-generated UFO cobblers."

And hidden boldly in amongst all the UFO cobblers, tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, alien spies redirecting human communications paralysed by a horrendous glut of self-generated greed and a distinct lack of wwwider and deeper internetional intelligence.

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Monday 17th August 2009 12:51 GMT Destroy All Monsters

Don't muddy the waters

>>Belgian fighter jockeys tried to tackle some UFOs using F-16s

So what's it now? Looneys from the chair force or something in the air for real?

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Monday 17th August 2009 12:51 GMT Gianni Straniero

"life imitating art"?

Shurely t'other way round, as the Air Component tangled with the Belgian Triangle six years before Independence Day.

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Monday 17th August 2009 12:51 GMT this

File Names.

What's up with those weird (dated?) .ftp file names? Seems a logical progression -albeit missing years - until DEFE 24/2086. Is this an insight into the MoD mindset?

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Monday 17th August 2009 13:31 GMT Anonymous Coward

A alien ate me

I got better!

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Monday 17th August 2009 23:30 GMT Anonymous Coward

You may mock, Mr Page...

...But I would like to be the first to welcome our new alien overlords - we have a nice landing ground set up for you at 51(o)31'10.81"N, 0(o)07'32.05"W.

I claim "Quisling Traitor in charge of Pretty Women"!!

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Tuesday 18th August 2009 11:10 GMT AlistairJ

they don't like it up 'em, sir!

Let me just add that I for one would welcome our new self-replicating cobblers enabling journo-hack overlords.

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Tuesday 18th August 2009 11:32 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Small fee ?

A fee ? Why ? Lets hope someone saves these for posterity.

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