The MoD wrote to the man, informing him that the object was probably an airship, adding that the time he felt he had gained was due to the clocks going back one hour on the night of his close encounter. Another file reveals how the RAF was inundated with calls one morning in 1967 after residents of southern England awoke to find six small beeping UFOs lying in a perfect line from the Isle of Sheppey to the Bristol Channel. A bomb-disposal unit blew up one of the UFOs, another was airlifted to the village of Aldermaston, and both the army and the MoD's intelligence unit were mobilized for what was considered a real "alien invasion." It was later discovered that engineering students at Farnborough Technical College had constructed and positioned the UFOs in a charity drive. Reuters |