The American media has picked up on the British government’s decision to release hundreds of previously classified documents related to UFO sightings. (For a BBC News report see here.) The files are a part of the National Archives. The story includes a link to the web page for the archives which includes PDF files for the documents, as well as a sample of UFO historian Dr. David Clarke’s book The UFO Files, and an audio file where Clarke discusses the new material.
Beyond the phenomenon itself, another interesting facet of this story is the way in which both the US and UK media are reporting on the release of the files. Both refer to the materials as the “British X-Files,” and in the video clip below from UK television The X-Files theme can be heard at the beginning, and the closing scenes of Close Encounters of the Third Kind with the giant mothership is shown in the conclusion. Evidence, of course, of the impact and crossover between science fiction and paranormal television and film and real-world phenomena.
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