MoD edited UFO files before public release
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Officials at the Ministry of Defence had to edit government UFO files before they were released into the public domain, to hide senstive military and strategic information but also to avoid letting the public know what they really thought of them. The Ministry had been been bombarded by so many requests for UFO details under the Freedom of Information Act that it decided to publish its full archive. But a memo reveals that officials had first to edit out...
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