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Thursday, August 14, 2008, 09:00
The files, released to the National Archive and made available on the internet for the first time, contain hundreds of items including letters, sketches and diagrams from people reporting strange goings-on, as well as official documents, replies, briefings and investigations.
Included in the files, which cover 1978 to 1987, are reports of sightings of UFOs from across Wales - from Swansea and Port Talbot to Caerphilly, Anglesey and Aberystwyth.
The files were released after Freedom of Information requests to the Government - though, tantalisingly, some of the information has been blanked-out on grounds of national security.
South West Wales is no stranger to UFO sightings - in 2006 Neath man Mike Davies took video footage of strange lights in the sky above his Rhodfa Bevan home, while the previous year a "bright object that was travelling at high speed, horizontally - west to east, which looked like marble" was seen over Rhossili on Gower.
In 2001 a "large, disc-shaped object, black in colour, which then changed to oval shape" was reported over Llanelli.
And the Post receives letters, calls and emails form readers who have seen strange lights in the sky.
The new documents from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) provide a wealth of detail about sightings, but are unlikely to provide many answers.
David Clarke is an expert on the history of UFO sightings from Sheffield Hallam University.
He said: "It has taken 10 years of campaigning to get these papers out and now that they are it lays to rest some of the claims of a cover up by the MoD.
''But I don't think for a minute that the conspiracy theorists will drop their theories."
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