The Ministry of Defence in the UK will follow the lead of the French national space agency and release their data on UFO sightings to the public online. No date has been set for the release but it is expected to be within weeks.
Expected to be among the 24 files, each containing 200-300 reports, are details of the 1980 incident at Rendlesham Forest. David Clarke from Sheffield Hallam University said that the release will be a blow to claims of suppressed knowledge of aliens.
"The more of this stuff that they put on their website or put in the national archives, the less it will cost the taxpayer, because at the moment people are writing in about individual incidents and they are having [sic] respond," he said.
Source: www.guardian.co.uk