UK Ministry of Defence UFO files
🏛️ The National Archives (UK)
Thousands of pages of UFO reports, letters and internal papers from the UK Ministry of Defence, opened to the public by The National Archives in a series of releases between 2008 and 2013.
Key points
- Covers decades of public reports to the MoD, including the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident.
- The MoD closed its UFO reporting desk in 2009, saying reports had never revealed a threat.
- The National Archives’ guide explains how to search and download the files.
Why it matters
It is one of the largest national UFO archives open to the public, and free to read online.
Read it yourself
The summary above is ours, written in plain English. Always check the original: the official files on this page go straight to the source, and each one has a backup copy saved by the Internet Archive in case the government page moves.
The National Archives (UK). (2008). UK Ministry of Defence UFO files. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ufos/Related records
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