“After years of denial, the British government admits it conducted a thorough scientific study of UFOs, which concluded that unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, do exist, but not flying saucers.

The secret Ministry of Defence study, unearthed through a Freedom of Information request, dismissed most reported UFOs as man-made objects, natural phenomenon or hoaxes.

But it also found that some sightings were possibly of rare atmospheric phenomena — pockets of electrically charged plasmas forming in the atmosphere. The plasmas would appear as bright, fast-moving UFOs to observers, but be invisible to radar.

‘It proves that the (Ministry of Defence was) prepared to look into this subject and it could galvanize science into studying this aspect of the subject out in the open,’ said British UFO expert and author Philip Mantle.” (Wired News)