He will cancel reports about UFOs

A secret memorandum from the Ministry of Defense shows that the agency will cancel all reports of strange flying objects (UFOs) they receive in the future.

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The UK UFO investigation unit and the UFO hotline all closed from early December last year. Telegraph has just posted the content of a British Ministry of Defense secret memo on how to handle information related to UFOs. According to the memorandum, defense officials will cancel unspecified flying notifications after 30 days. This treatment helps them not to disclose information under the law of freedom of information or transfer information to the national archive.

'Notices of UFOs from sources will be answered by mail. They are then stored for 30 days before being destroyed , "the Telegraph quoted a paragraph in the memo.

The memorandum - dated 11/11/2009 - also offers reasons for the decision to close the UFO investigation department and the hotline to receive information from people.

It emphasized that the number of UFO sightings skyrocketed last year caused the Ministry of Defense to mobilize more personnel and resources to process information. That situation makes many other activities of the ministry affected.

David Clarke, a journalism lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK, obtained a secret memorandum through the law of freedom of information. He said the British Ministry of Defense recorded 634 cases of people seeing strange objects in 2009. This is the year with the highest number of UFO announcements in British history - just after 1978 with 750 cases. . If average, the number of unidentified flying objects in the past decade is 150 per year.