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UK MoD document hints at covert aircraft programmes
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| 28 June 2006 |
By Bill Sweetman IDR Technology & Aerospace Editor
Minneapolis
A newly declassified UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) report suggests that unacknowledged "black" US aircraft may have operated in UK airspace before 2000.
Prepared by the Defence Intelligence Staff, the report examines unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) in the UK Air Defence Region. UAP is the MoD's preferred term for what are popularly known as unidentified flying objects or UFOs. One section of the document, dated 2000, states that: "Some UAP reports can be attributed to covert aircraft programmes."
It describes and illustrates a number of Western programmes, including the SR-71, F-117 and B-2, but two paragraphs and two illustrations have been removed. Codes next to the excised material indicate that it had been removed in the interests of international relations, presumably because of US involvement.
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