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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Australia's UFO X-Files Have Disappeared: With No Smoking Gun Document, Does Anyone Really Care?

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In case you missed this little item in the news, it appears that Australia's military has somehow misplaced its “X-Files" -- official records of UFO sightings.

After a two-month search, an Australian Department of Defense spokeswoman simply said, "The files could not be located and Headquarters Air Command formally advised that this file is deemed lost."

How does this happen? How can documents, some of which are previously considered too sensitive for public consumption, just casually vanish?

What seems to have slipped through some of the red-tape cracks in this story is that the loss of UFO files -- some big ones -- has happened before, in other countries, and with no substantial conspiratorial backlash.

"Yes, I've lost files. Of course, if you lose any file, obviously, it's a mistake," said Nick Pope, who headed up the British government's UFO project, analyzing classified files at the Ministry of Defense from 1991 to 1993.

"If you lose a classified document or file, it's more of an issue," Pope told AOL. "The higher the classification of material, the more stringent the rules and procedures for tracking the whereabouts of the document or material."

And the same thing happened in the U.K.

Just three months ago, it was revealed that British files had mysteriously gone missing -- files abouta significant 1980 UFO encounter that took place at joint British/American airbases in the U.K.'s Rendlesham Forest.

"I can understand why UFOlogists and conspiracy theorists might react to the loss of files," Pope said. "Particularly with the Australian story having come after the British story about the Rendlesham files. I can understand why people would say, 'This must be a conspiracy.'"

Read More: http://weirdnews.aol.com/2011/06/10/australia-x-files-missing-ufo-files_n_873219.html

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