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Churchill’s UFO Cover-Up

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Posted on Aug 5, 2010
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This, however, is not the UFO in question.

Conspiracy theorists and alien enthusiasts, start your engines. Some newly unleashed documents from the British Ministry of Defense show that none other than Winston Churchill had a bee in his bonnet about the possibility that the public would hear about a reported UFO sighting during World War II. Thus, he worked in tandem with Eisenhower to make sure news of the encounter never got out ... until now, that is.  —KA

BBC:

Nick Pope, who used to investigate UFO sightings for the MoD, said: “The interesting thing is that most of the UFO files from that period have been destroyed.

“But what happened is that a scientist whose grandfather was one of his [Churchill’s] bodyguards, said look, Churchill and Eisenhower got together to cover up this phenomenal UFO sighting, that was witnessed by an RAF crew on their way back from a bombing raid.

“The reason apparently was because Churchill believed it would cause mass panic and it would shatter people’s religious views.”

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By Inherit The Wind, August 6, 2010 at 2:05 pm Link to this comment

This story is clearly bogus.  EVERYONE knows that UFOs ONLY land and are seen in the United States… and ONLY the USA.

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By PatrickHenry, August 6, 2010 at 1:56 am Link to this comment

The aliens don’t think like us so I doubt they are going to invade, hence their thinking is ‘alien’ to us.

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By Baba.B, August 6, 2010 at 12:58 am Link to this comment
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I am suprised that people are actually suprised at this information.
Only a fool will beleive we are alone in this universe. Please wake up all Ye all.

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By Robespierre115, August 5, 2010 at 10:49 pm Link to this comment

This is considered serious news? Stephen Hawking said it best, if these aliens do exist somewhere out there, they would probably show up to conquer us. Instead people are still believing these fuzzy stories and buying into videos of blurry, far away lights or blurred airplane shots.

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By Edy, August 5, 2010 at 10:04 pm Link to this comment
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- Newly released UFO files from the UK government…Files released in August 2010… covering the years 1995-2003… British PM David Cameron: “Aliens in UFOs have visited Earth”...CNN: UFO Disclosure Wanted by High Ranking Officials… VIDEO: Aliens in the NASA Archives… UFO Disclosure 2010: The Vatican’s Key Role… Pope’s star watcher to visit Nasa (12th February 2009) and talk aliens… VIDEO: Secrets of the Vatican: UFO’s in the Ancient Art…  Vatican’s ‘Secret Archives’ unveiled:
http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2010/08/newly-released-ufo-files.html

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By PatrickHenry, August 5, 2010 at 1:04 pm Link to this comment

Cave men have glyphs of space visitors carved and chisled on rocks throughout the world.

Whats new and why is it a secret? 

Our own politicians suffer the ‘keep it secret dementia that Churchill obviously did.

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By diman, August 5, 2010 at 12:22 pm Link to this comment

Who cares anyway.

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