It is claimed that in 1947 a UFO crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. The next day high-ranking US air force officials openly
admitted that indeed a craft of unknown origin had come down at the site, and this unprecedented official government statement
was published in the US national press. The day after that, however, the US government changed its story, claiming that in
fact the unknown craft was a weather balloon and its radar reflector. Since then the US authorities have changed their story
again. They now claim that the unknown craft was a Top Secret Project Mogul spy balloon, and that the "alien bodies" recovered
from the crash site were in fact "dummies" used in "high-altitude parachute tests." The snag here, of course, is that parachute
tests are not undertaken from Top Secret spy balloons (see Document 03, file 14.)
There were hundreds of eyewitnesses to the Roswell Incident, many of whom claimed that they were threatened by US government
officials. Some said they were told that if they spoke openly about the crash their families would be murdered. Even so,
many of the witnesses continued to tell their stories that, as we have seen, included reports of wreckage material unlike
anything found on Earth and alien bodies being seen at the crash site before being transported to supersecret US military
facilities. The problem is, of course, when Authority tells the nation its side of the story only a small number of people
are willing to listen to those who claim otherwise. This, it seems, is human nature.
Despite this sad fact, however, in the summer of 1996 information came my way that pointed to the possibility of a similar
incident having occurred in England in 1987. The information further suggested that, like the Roswell incident before it,
the UK UFO crash had been cleverly covered up by the military. Although the incident remains "unsolved" to this day, my own
investigations tend to support the fact that indeed an object of unknown origin crashed on the night of 12th/13th of October
1987 in Nottinghamshire, England. And whatever it was, it was not – as the local press claimed – a "freak thunderbolt."
Whatever happened on the night of the 12th/13th October 1987, just south of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, remains a mystery
– but it was reported in the local press as being the result of a "freak thunderbolt."
On investigation, however, it soon became apparent that this incident had not been caused by a "freak thunderbolt," nor by
any other type of natural phenomenon. Indeed, many people reported seeing at least one UFO (some claimed three) while many
more in Mansfield were woken up at 1:30 a.m. by what they described as "the sound of an explosion." Somewhat ironically,
many of those still awake were watching an old war movie on TV, The Battle of Britain. Even more ironic is the fact that,
as the "explosion" resounded, the film had just reached the point where German bombers had started to unleash their payload
on a British aerodrome! Even so, not even the Luftwaffe could be blamed for this mystery.
According to personal reports, immediately prior to the explosion household lights came on all by themselves. Other lights
(which were already on) exploded, while TV aerials were split in two. As might be expected, insurance companies were inundated
with claims for video players and TVs damaged by the so-called "thunderbolt." In one street alone forty claims were made,
although I have since discovered that a number of these property damage claims, though investigated, were never met. The
reason given was that the government's official Meteorological Office at Bracknell in Berkshire, affirmed that there was "no
weather" that night – no cloud, no wind, no rain, no lightning. And no thunderbolts. Indeed, other witnesses told
me that they remember the night being still and cloudless, thus ruling out the possibility that the damage was caused by a
thunderbolt. This fact, it seems, was seized upon by the insurance companies as a convenient loophole – "UFO damage"
was of course not included in any of the policies, not even in 