Some claim they have the shape of a saucer. Others speak of unidentified flying objects in the form of a Toblerone chocolate. UFOs! Since time immemorial, they stimulate the imagination. But the unknown flying objects are anything but fantasies.
The Department of Defense in London has re-published on Thursday files on UFO sightings and alleged encounters with extraterrestrials. The Ministry had already publicized several files to UFO sightings. The present publication is the fifth within a larger project.
But will in the years between 1994 to 2000, hundreds of "non unidentified flying objects" (Unidentified Flying Objects / UFO) have been sighted in the UK. A witness saw a UFO over the stadium while the London soccer club Chelsea. Another reported that the phenomenon would have appeared above the house of a former interior minister.
And there are even more bizarre UFO stories in the files. Such a man was 1997, a skin rash. Cause: a monstrous "light pipe" that had surrounded his car. Another witness claimed to have recognized in the same year, a blue triangle above his garden. This had left on the trees a "silky white" substance, which he then kept in a jam jar.
The document from the Ministry and the National Archives also contain drawings. The experts consider this evidence, how has changed the shape of UFOs in recent decades - according to their representation in popular culture. Many UFOs in the current documents are large, black, and triangular, while they were drawn in the 40s and 50s, more like a disk or saucer.
Belief in UFOs reaches into the highest political circles. A document proving that also developed the former Prime Minister Winston Churchill keen interest in flying saucers. According to the report, he instructed employees to tell him about the objects. In response it was said that UFO could be explained as follows: The handle is either a meteorological phenomenon to aircraft, optical illusion or simply a joke.
