UFOs hovering over Waterloo Bridge? Green men known as Elgar? This can only mean the British ‘X-Files’ have been opened up to the public for the first time. The fascinating reports, taken so seriously they were documented by the Ministry of Defence, have been revealed after a Freedom of Information request by UFO researchers. And, according to the files, the number of reports of UFOs doubled after the release of Steven Speilberg’s sci-fi drama Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977. Among the most sensational is the famous Rendlesham Forest case. A report from Lt.Col Charles Halt on 13th January 1981 tells how on the night of December 27th security patrolmen spotted odd lights above the forest. They saw the lights plunge down and went to investigate. In the forest they found a triangular shaped object 9ft long by 6ft high hovering above the ground. Flashing lights The object had a pulsing red light on top with blue lights underneath. According to the patrolmen a white light coming from the UFO illuminated the whole forest. The object suddenly took off and flew away. Other airmen on the base also […]