One of Britain’s ballistic missile early warning bases reportedly tracked a UFO, with army chiefs left baffled by the “unknown goal“.
It has emerged {that a} secret investigation was ordered in 1981 following the incident at RAF Fylingdales, close to Whitby in Yorkshire.
RAF Fylingdales is a part of the NORAD missile defence system. Its main function is to offer the British and US governments warning of an impending ballistic missile assault, and it was a part of the four-minute warning system in the course of the Cold War. But it seems Soviet missiles aren’t all the bottom can detect.
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RAF Group Captain David Todd, the Senior Duty Officer on the base on the time, advised The Sun it was common for unknown entities to pop up on the radar at RAF Fylingdales. But one specific incident was totally different.
He stated: “We could not match it up with anything on our computers. And radar tracked it for quite a long time. We had quite a lot of information on it. It appeared to be in Earth’s orbit and we waited for it to come around again but it did not return. So that got us really interested, because people started saying ‘ooh, is it a UFO?’.”
Todd was responsibility sure to lift the problem with defence contractor SERCO, which designed the radars and will examine additional, when the article didn’t reappear. He stated: “They did a hell of a lot of work on it and came up with various theories. One of which was ‘an unidentified flying object with little green men inside!'”
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The eventual conclusion was that the article was “most likely” a meteorite rotating in the identical path as Earth. There isn’t any document of the incident within the Ministry of Defence’s official disclosures.
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