Folks:

This is sort of a "nothing new" news, but FYI anyway:

I was just in the Rotunda at the University of Virginia to hear the U.K. Ambassador to the U.S., Sir Nigel Sheinwald. He spoke about International Relations.

 Afterwards I met him and asked him why the
British government released the thousands of UFO files last year. He said he hadn't heard about the release, and he assumed it was in response to a FOIA request by a reporter or someone else. He said that UFOs are not an interest of his and he doesn't know anything about the subject. I told him that Nick Pope, formerly with the U.K. Ministry of Defense and at one time a MoD investigator of UFO incidents in the U.K., had said on a radio program recently that Royal Air Force pilots had permission to shoot down UFOs at the time Pope was with the MoD.

Sir Nigel politely said he had not heard of that policy or of Nick Pope or Nick Pope's radio comment. I told him that there are American organizations and individuals who want the U.S. Government to release
more UFO incident files as did the MoD, and I told him to relay my thank you to the MoD for releasing the files. He was a pleasant diplomat, of course.

Tom Hansen