Watchdog Cites Bid to Cover Up UFO Report
The British government tried to cover up one of the country’s most famous sightings of an unidentified flying object, parliamentary ombudsman Ann Abraham ruled. But the Defense Ministry said files on the incident had always been available to anyone who asked.
The “Rendlesham Files” contain accounts by U.S. Air Force officers at a base near Rendlesham Forest in eastern England, who reported seeing a brilliantly lighted triangular object land in December 1980. Skeptics say the witnesses were merely seeing the beam from a lighthouse.
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