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From the early 1950s until 2009, a department in the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence

documented and investigated reports of UFOs. In 2007, many of those formerly classified reports

had been made available to the public for the very first time. Here, Nick Pope, former staff member

for the UFO desk at the M.O.D. explains why this release of files occurred.

December 2007, the Ministry of Defence made a policy decision to release its entire archive of

UFO files. 12,000 citing reports going back to the 50s, policy files, files on how to handle this

subject when it's raised in Parliament or by the media, public correspondence files, all sorts of

files. Why was this decision taken? Three main reasons. Reason number one, the French government

had recently disclosed their archive of UFO files. CNES, the French National Space Research

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