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British X-Files

Protesters in alien costumes hold placards with a message as they stage a picket in time for the high-level discussion on climate change and clean energy Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at the Asian Development Bank in suburban Pasig City east of Manila, Philippines. The protesters were calling for a genuine climate change solutions and to stop the funding of coal powered technology which they claimed as the single greatest cause of climate change. (Pat Roque / Associated Press)
By D.F. Oliveria daveo@spokesman.com(509) 319-0354

LONDON (Reuters Life!) – Britain released hundreds of previously secret ” UFO files” on Thursday including a letter saying that Winston Churchill had ordered a 50 year cover-up of a wartime encounter between a UFO and military pilot.

The files, published by the National Archives, span decades and contain scores of witness accounts, sketches and classified briefing notes documenting mysterious sightings across Britain.

One Ministry of Defense note refers to a 1999 letter stating that a Royal Air Force plane returning from a mission in Europe during World War Two was “approached by a metallic UFO.” Full story.

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