Matthew Williams is a former civil servant who worked for HM Customs & Excise
Criminal Investigations department who since his own UFO sighting, back in 1990, now
investigates the UFO enigma full time. He has managed to get the MOD to unwittingly admit
that they knew the whereabouts of UFO files which were listed missing - (which they
secretly had hidden) - whilst at the same time they were spinning a web of untruths to
public, press and MPs. He has also looked into the governments investigations of UFOs and
had uncovered the amazing details of how one department, implicated in UFO investigations,
operates from a super secret facility in Corsham, Wilts which is housed underground in 35
miles of nuclear proof tunnels. Matthew has become a whistle blower on the existence of
this base and a number of other secret bases. Matthew believes in direct action to expose
bases and has been involved in some actions against bases in the UK.
The following information may to the uninitiated seem complex or trivial so it must be clearly pointed out that the reasons for providing this information are simple. The MOD says that there is no cover-up over UFO information and also they state that there have been no secret departments investigating UFOs. This we manage to disprove along with uncovering a policy of downplaying the UFO subject. The story gets even more interesting when you learn that after we found out these facts in a MOD file the MOD removed the incriminating file from public view. This file implicated Provost & Security Services (based at RAF Rudloe Manor), which is a deprtment that I have been researching for some years, as having investigating the UFO subject - a point which they deny.
I have supplied snippets from the original government documents which show the points we are making. If anyone wishes to get hold of copies of the originals they can do so by visiting the Public Records Office in Kew, London where the files can be booked out and photocopied.
File no AIR 2/16918 provides the best evidence to show that in the
1960s there were no fewer than seven secret government departments within the Ministry Of
Defence that were investigating UFOs. Former UFO public office investigator Nick Pope
claimed that in his experience there were no other departments investigating UFOs. We have
a problem with this statement in light of these new files which show otherwise. Could it
be that Nick Pope in his low ranking position of Executive Officer (an entry level grade)
was not aware of these departments, or is he covering them up? When questioned, Nick Pope
assured me that he did not know of these departments when he was working in the MOD and
had no dealings with them.
When researching UFO files you encounter the thirty-year rule problem.
This means that any information which is released through official channels is subject to
a thirty year filing rule (sometimes longer). This means that by the time the files reach
our hands and we learn things the departments which dealt with the information have
probably closed down or had their names changed and so we cannot find out their current
status or records, or even to make complaints. The departments clearly named many times in
this file have no other documentation or references within the Public Records Office.
Consequently we suspect that this file was probably not meant to reach the Public Records
Office. Are we going a bit far in stating this? Perhaps not when you learn that after
researchers exposed the file it was then removed from view at the Public Records Office
and only returned after questions being raised in the House Of Commons by the Rt. Hon.
Ieuan Wyn Jones, MP for Anglesey North.
The confirmed departments involved in UFO investigation that we know of in the 1960's are:
Public departments investigating UFOs who were in fact simply letter writers that fronted these other departments are DS8 & Air Staff 2 & S6.
CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) has also conducted investigations of the UFO phenomenon, and has recently finished an investigation a near miss of a UFO and a jetliner coming which was making its final approach to Manchester airport.
Extra departments rumoured to be investigating UFOs include D155 and DI64.
The files which were used for the basis of these investigations are as follows:
AIR 2/16918, AIR 16/1199, AIR 2/17318, AIR 20/7390, AIR 20/9320, AIR 20/9321, AIR
20/9322, AIR 20/9994, AIR 2/17318, AIR 2/17526, AIR 2/17527, AIR 2/17982, AIR 2/17983,
PREM 11/855.
We know from statements made to us by serving officers and also former serving officers and officials, inside the MOD, that many files exist which have never been released to the public. We also hear from Lord Peter Hill Norton, Commander of the Fleet (MODs highest position possible), that in his opinion there is a cover-up and UFOs are of defence significance. He states that films and evidence of UFOs are being withheld by the MOD.
A MOD ruling from 1967 meant that all UFO reports would be
preserved in the Public Records Office for viewing by the public, because of renewed
interest in the subject of UFOs. However if the seven secret MOD departments were
investigating UFOs back then, where are the departments files relating to this? No files
are available or due to be released for these departments. It is as if they didn't exist
and efforts to find out if these departments moved on to have new names have proved
fruitless as this information is deemed sensitive and cannot be given out to the public.
We know that documents exist which have not been released to the UK
public because these documents have been copied to the US government and have been
released to US citizens under the American Freedom of Information Act. This release
circumvented UK secrecy laws. Some of these documents show that UFO incidents have taken
place on UK soil, involving American airbases. We also know that some of these bases have
had overflights of UFOs, which subsequently interfered and rendered some of the nuclear
weapons stored on the base inoperable, e.g. the 1980 Woodbridge / Bentwaters incidents.
The mere fact that these weapons were stored in this US airbase on British soil is still a
top-secret. (Proof of the nuclear aspect is available in a new book LEFT AT EAST GATE
published by Michael '0 Mara books.) I have just secured my own evidence of the Nuclear
aspect at Bentwaters by secretly visiting the site with a team of UFO investigators,
including Richard Conway and two original witnesses. We visited the nuclear bunkers and
will be releasing this proof soon.
Readers should note that the proposals for a UK Freedom of Information
act are clear in there being no responsibility for the MOD to take part. (Although it is
my understanding that some MOD departments feel that they may be included so are preparing
anyhow). I feel this is an unnaceptable situation and would only support a total
government and military-wide Freedom of Information act.
When looking at the files which follow, remember that whenever the MOD have been
questioned on the subject of UFOs they have given a statement that UFOs are of "No
Defence Significance". Clearly the files show that UFOs were of defence significance
otherwise they would not be investigating them at such a high level.
SO WHAT FILES ARE WE TALKING ABOUT ANYHOW…..
1. "Project Bluebook" was the USAF public project to investigate UFOs using air force resources. Its leader, Dr J Allen Hynek left the project in disgust saying that it was keeping the best and most unexplained records away from the Bluebook files. Subsequently he stated that the conclusions of the report, which were that most sightings could be explained and that no evidence of extraterrestrial life could be determined, was at the very best a cover-up of the highest order. (There were secret level investigations going on behind Project Bluebook which we now know of as project Sign and Grudge.)
In this letter the MOD were writing to Project Bluebook and state that UFO investigations were carried out as part of the MODs Air Force Technical Intelligence Dept. Obviously the MOD, whilst writing to another Military unit, were prepared to admit to their investigations at a high level which is a point they would not admit publicly. This then shows that investigations went on at a high level than those of Airstaff 2a, the former office of Nick Pope.
MOD admit to a policy of playing down the subject of UFOs. In doing this they avoid public or political pressure to mount a large scale - probably public - investigation on UFOs. It is not the military's right to make decisions that will affect politics. The military are supposed to be under the control of government and not acting in such a way as to dictate government policy.
2. Nick Pope was asked directly about Provost and Security Service and RAF Rudloe Manors
involvement in UFO investigations. He denied any knowledge of these facts although he was
in office at a time when Kerry Philpott (Nick Popes successor) alleges that they sent
reports to him. Work that out!
Here we see a file letter showing that Provost & Security Service were investigating UFOs and that the files were classified as CONFIDENTIAL (a little hard to see on this photocopy). We also see that the MOD sent out officers to interview witnesses which may give rise to certain cases of "Men In Black" or "Men from the Ministry" visitations that have been reported by witnesses over the years. The MOD have denied that they ever sent out officers to visit witnesses. Nick Pope in his book OPEN SKIES CLOSED MINDS very firmly states the opinion that no MOD officers went out to visit witnesses and believes that these "MIBs" were just oddball characters - "Walter Mitty characters" who "dressed up" to scare witnesses and were nothing to do with the MOD.
In fact this file gives the name of the officer who went out to interview the witness and page 2 of the report (which is not included in this file) goes even further into the fact that officers visited her on a few occasions. The witness, Mrs Ann Henson has now been visited by UFO researchers who confirmed that she was "advised" by the MOD to not talk about her sighting to press or public and not to discuss the MOD investigation. She kept to this silence for 30 years until she was contacted by researchers. My question is how many other witnesses have been "advised" not to talk by the MOD in this fashion?
Provost and Security Service is the department which has been rumoured for many years
as being involved in UFO investigations and was first exposed in such a role in Timothy
Goods book Above Top Secret. I featured my investigations into Rudloe Manor Alien
Encounters a few editions ago and now it is clear the importance of this and other
departments in the whole UFO investigations network. Provost & Security Services are
based at RAF Rudloe Manor. Another interesting feature about RAF Rudloe Manor is that most
of its facilities are housed underground in a labyrinth of 35 miles of tunnels. I have
never heard any rumours of aliens down there, though - just a lot of intelligence work and
war time control operations.
3. MOD have made statements that no UFO reports were classified secret yet in this Intelligence report, from one of the Secret UFO investigation units, we see the word SECRET clearly used.
The report describes an object which was moving at speeds EXCEEDING 1400Mph. No
explanation could be found for the sighting. The speed was faster than any aircraft of the
day.Officers who were experienced in radar made the statement that the reported contacts
were not those of any conventional aircraft.
We read that the MOD were unhappy to see reports of UFOs getting to the press and deny that the sighting was not backed up with radar evidence. This is clearly disinformation being fed to the British Public - proof again of a cover-up.
The tone of this statement shows us that these secret investigators would pass on recommendations to civil servants in the publicly known UFO reporting departments (Nick Popes office) enabling them to make statements fit for public consumption. In this way the secret units could operate their investigations without being hindered because the names of these departments were hidden from view by the "front of shop" Whitehall MOD office writing replies to people.
OTHER FACTS
Some of the other documents available in UFO files include radar tracking of objects by the military. One incident which occurred in West Freugh which was forwarded to secret department DDI Tech was that of a set of five objects, which were measured to be as big as ships, which proceeded from 50,000ft to 70,000ft. A second radar was switched on and confirmed the objects at this height. The considered expert opinion of the military was that these objects were indeed unidentified and of an unknown type and origin. The radar operators were able to rule out the possibility of radar interference or that they may have misidentified charged clouds etc. This makes the incident very worthy of note.
Other incidents include similar radar tracks of objects which travelled at speeds in excess of 4000 MPH. These speeds are faster than any known aircraft can achieve today, let alone back then in the 1960's!
THE MISSING FILE
In and around March 1995 the file which contained so many of these revelations about departments in the MOD investigating UFOs went missing after Nick Redfern was filmed for a documentary called Out Of This World. The official explanation for the missing file was that it has been misfiled. We suspected otherwise but it took the intervention of MP Ieuan Wyn Jones asking a question in the House Of Commons to bring the file back. The file was returned two days after the question being tabled. Still the excuse that we were given was that it had indeed been misfiled - this was after one year of looking for it and one major file search (known as a census).
In a visit to the Public Records Office in 1996, myself and Richard Conway and Chris Fowler were told by Vivian Bales that the file was probably with the MOD as they often recalled sensitive files which they may have released information in by mistake. It was her opinion that this is possibly what had happened. We did not prompt her for this explanation and she gave it to us as an unofficial comment. It seems she may have been telling the truth as we shall see.
I didn't buy the official missing file story so went on my own search for who might have had the file at the MOD. I used contacts I have in government to give me a lead about where inside the MOD where I might find an answer. I was given the details of a small department which is housed inside the Metropole Building in Northumberland Avenue. This is the Central Records Management Unit and after speaking to the staff there I was put onto the Deputy Departmental Records Officer, Mr I D Goode. Mr Goode checked his records and confirmed that he had records on the file being inside the MOD and sent to a department in November of 1996. He could not tell us which department because he said this was against the rules, but confirmed to me that by his records someone at the MOD had the file. I asked him to be very sure of what he was saying and he re-confirmed the details to me verbally and then by letter.
This proved that an MP and members of the public were being lied to about the whereabouts of this file. Both the MOD and Public Records Office had assured us that they had carried out proper checks on the whereabouts of this file. If they had then surely they would have found out that it was booked to MOD. The fact that we were not told which department was dealing with the file was proof that there was some collusion behind the scenes.
The final part of the saga is that an official clamp-down has come into force, and now we are told by Kerry Philpott of the MOD official UFO cover-up department that Mr I D Goode was in fact wrong and had made a clerical error and the records he had should have read Nov 95. This letter should not have come from Kerry Philpott anyway - it should have come from I D Goode who had made the statement to me in his previous letter. Why does it always happen when someone asks about UFOs or writes to government officials that a clamp down on details happens and you get a reply from Kerry Philpott? Why is it also that government denies that many other departments investigate UFOs and then send their watered-down conclusions through Kerry Philpott and Airstaff 2a for dissemination to the public. Well I think the answer to that question is obvious from the above.
One thing is now clear, we have the ammunition to fight the government over the files of these seven secret departments who files do not appear in the Public Records Office. It has even been hinted to me by one insider that if any files for these departments did exist that they would not become public because most of these files are Defence Intelligence orientated and these types of files rarely get released, if at all! My source also tells me that these files would most certainly be screened for department names which were not to be public and our departments would probably come into that category. So a fight, it will probably have to be!
SUMMARY
What we have here is clear evidence of the Ministry of Defence being involved in playing down and covering up UFO sightings. UFO reports were classified as secret and details probably were not meant to be released to the public. Procedures were in place for the secret departments to lie to the public about conclusions of their investigations through the front of the Whitehall civil servant departments. We also know that the enormity of the sightings that were being reported back then show that UFOs were of extreme defence significance. Lastly we now know that the MOD were sending out officers to interview witnesses and these said same officers were trying to silence witnesses. It all fits together nicely.
What we now need to know is where did those departments go and where do they operate from today. We also need to know where all of the investigations files from the many years of UFO research these departments have carried out. We are preparing to find these departments and to ask for the files. We will bring you further updates of any information we gather. Readers will be very interested to read about even more of the revelations in a new book by author Nick Redfern which will be released in September. It is called "A Covert Agenda" and will be published by Simon & Schuster.
Space restrictions in the magazine mean that we cannot include all the papers which
make up the file bundle but if anyone requires the full documents associated with this
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publishing these documents on the internet soon.
By now everyone who has more than a slight interest in UFOs know about the top secret
research group known as Maj, Majic, MJ-12, Majestic, and Majestic-12. The reality of the
group is shrouded in myth and mystery but one thing is certain the events and people that
surround this elusive group are still effecting the core of the UFO subject today.
