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Confidential Ministry of Defence files on Unidentified Flying Objects are set to be made public.

Hundreds of documented sightings of UFOs across the UK will be released by the MoD to the National Archive in the coming weeks.

The British Ministry of Defence has just given The History Channel’s “UFO Hunters” the sort of publicity windfall that money just can’t buy.

On Feb. 25, just two days before the network aired an episode on the Rendlesham Forest incident, the MoD announced it was yanking related documents off its Web site.

Secret files on UFO sightings have been made available for the first time by the Ministry of Defence.

The documents, which can be downloaded from the National Archives website, cover the period from 1978 to 1987.

In einem bereits seit Winter Jahr angekündigten Schritt, hat das britische Verteidigungsministerium (MoD) heute die ersten acht von rund 160 Akten bislang als "geheim" klassifizierten Akten zu UFO-Sichtungen veröffentlicht.

The files contain a wide range of UFO-related documents covering the years 1978–2002. So if you want to find out more about lights in the sky over Waterloo Bridge, near misses by pilots, crop circles - and what the UK government thought of it all - this is the place to start. The files are in PDF format.

Rote Blinklichter, Aliens in grünen Overalls: Die britische Armee hat jahrzehntelang Berichte über angebliche Ufo-Sichtungen erstellt. Jetzt veröffentlichte sie einen ganzen Stoß Akten. Sie belegen, wie akribisch die Beamten den Hinweisen nachgingen - allerdings eher aus irdischem Interesse.

The UK Ministry of Defence has taken the first step in its long-awaited decision to release its complete back catalogue of UFO reports at The National Archives (TNA).

International media interest is expected to coincide with the public opening of the first eight files on May 14. Staff are preparing for up to 1 million hits on a special website they are using for the public launch. The newly-released files are now available to download free of charge for the first month. Further files will be added as the collection grows over the next three to four years.

There was the man on a fishing trip who was shown around a flying saucer by aliens in green overalls; another who befriended an extraterrestrial called Algar and wanted to introduce him to the government; and the astonished air traffic controller who watched a UFO land on his airport's runway, then disappear.

The UK is making decades' worth of classified files relating to UFOs freely available to the public.

On Monday, the British Ministry of Defence (MOD) began a four-year-long project to transfer the files to the UK's National Archives, which will post them for public perusal. The announcement comes about one year after France made its UFO files available online.

Interview with Ryan Seacrest; UK Government Releases UFO Files

Aired May 15, 2008 - 21:00 ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

Mit großem Interesse reagiert die Öffentlichkeit in Deutschland und England auf die Veröffentlichung bislang geheimer UFO-Unterlagen durch das britische Nationalarchiv. Der allgemeine Tenor: Warum sollte es kein Leben da draußen geben? Außerdem: Herbe Kritik am Interview mit Werner Walter (CENAP) in der ZEIT. Eine - zugegebenermaßen subjektive - Sammlung von Leserkommentaren aus WELT, ZEIT und TELEGRAPH.

Der ehemalige Mitarbeiter des britischen Verteidigungsministeriums Nick Pope diskutiert in diesem offiziellen Videocast des britischen Nationalarchivs die kürzlich neu veröffentlichten Geheimakten über UFOs.

"Alle UFO-Besatzungen sind grün", meldete die Online-Ausgabe von ZDF HEUTE jüngst nach Veröffentlichung der britischen UFO-Akten. Darüber, dass in den Akten zahlreiche Berichte von Piloten, Militärs und Polizeibeamten enthalten sind, erfuhr man beim größten deutschen Sender jedoch nichts. Dabei machen gerade diese Fälle deutlich, dass das UFO-Phänomen real ist. Entscheiden Sie selbst: Sieht man mit dem Zweiten wirklich besser?

They were shaped like cigars, saucers, coffins and amorphous blinking blobs. They hovered in a menacing manner, traveled at impossible speeds and vanished into the netherworld, or, in one instance, a hedge in Cornwall.

A few carried humanoid life forms, or so it seemed. A few materialized courtesy of the observers’ possibly having had a drink too many, as in the case of an unidentified flying light cluster witnessed loitering in the sky by the patrons of a pub in Kent.