In the 1950’s Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had ordered a UFO incident to be kept hidden away to avoid “Mass Panic” according to reports made public in the UK on Thursday.

According to reports, the grandson of one of Churchill’s personal bodyguards had written to the then British Ministry of Defense in 1999 hoping to learn more about the incident. A batch of UFO files then emerged.

There was a letter from the body guards grandfather that he was present when Churchill had discussions about a UFO sighting with Dwight Eisenhower. The UFO incident involved an RAF reconnaissance plane that was returning from France or Germany that was suddenly intercepted by a metallic UFO near the English coastline.

As the Daily Mail reported, the letter read as follows:

“During the discussion with Mr Churchill, a consultant (who worked in the Cumbria area during the war) dismissed any possibility that the object had been a missile, since a missile could not suddenly match its speed with a slower aircraft and then accelerate again.He declared that the event was totally beyond any imagined capabilities of the time. Another person at the meeting raised the possibility of an unidentified flying object, at which point Mr
Churchill declared that the incident should be immediately classified for at least 50 years and its status reviewed by a future Prime Minister.”

A Defense Ministry official’s response from September, 1999 was also among the files. It reads: “It was generally the case that before 1967 all UFO files were destroyed after five years as there was insufficient public interest in the subject to merit their permanent retention.”

According to another note found among the new files, however, such claims were taken extremely seriously by Churchill and his staff. By 1957, ministers were commissioning weekly reports on UFO sightings from a committee of intelligence experts.

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