我已经工作了国防部近十五年现在，   and have had a variety of fascinating posts. 并有各种迷人的职位。   But by far and away the most amazing was my tour of duty in a division called Secretariat(Air Staff)2a, where for three years my responsibilities included researching and investigating the UFO phenomenon. 但到目前为止，并把最令人惊讶的是我的任务在一个司要求秘书处（空军参谋部） 2A条，其中三年我的职责包括研究和调查不明飞行物现象。

　　I should say first of all that the Ministry’s interest in UFOs has 我应该说，首先，该部的兴趣，飞碟已   more to do with the Russians than the Martians: it stemmed not from any corporate belief in extraterrestrials, but from the understandable desire to know about any object that had penetrated the UK’s Air Defence Region. 万博体育app：的是与俄罗斯比火星：它不是来自任何企业认为外星人，但是从可以理解的愿望，知道任何物件，已经渗透到英国的防空区。   But in keeping an eye out for the Soviet aircraft that routinely probed at our air defences during the Cold War, it soon became clear that there were other more exotic craft operating in British airspace. 但是，在密切关注了苏联飞机经常探讨在我国防空部队在冷战期间，它很快就清楚地表明，还有其他万博体育app：的外来船只在英国领空。   For at least the last fifty years there has been a steady stream of UFO reports sent to the MOD, some from military sources and some from members of the public. 至少在过去50年里一直源源不断的不明飞行物报告送交国防部，一些来自军方的消息和一些有兴趣的市民。   So what’s going on? 因此，这是怎么回事？

　　Each the year the MOD receives two or three hundred UFO reports, although some years are busier than others (there were 750 reports in 1978, 600 in 1981 and 609 in 1996). 每一年中，国防部收到两个或300件UFO报告，虽然有些年是繁忙的比别人（有750个报告于1978年， 600在1981年和609在1996年） 。   My job was to investigate these reports in an attempt to see whether there was evidence of any threat to the UK. 我的任务是调查这些报告，以确定是否有证据表明任何威胁到英国。   After careful investigation I managed to find explanations for around ninety percent of sightings, which turned out to be misidentifications of ordinary objects or phenomena. 经过认真调查，我找到的解释大约百分之九十的发现，这原来是misidentifications普通物体或现象。   The common culprits included aircraft lights, satellites, meteors and airships. 共同匪徒包括飞机灯，卫星，流星和飞艇。   But there was a hard core of sightings that simply couldn’t be explained in conventional terms, where trained observers such as police officers and pilots saw unidentified craft performing speeds and manoeuvres way beyond our own capabilities. 但是有一个核心的发现，只是无法解释的常规，在那里受过训练的观察员，如警察和飞行员看到不明身份的工艺表演和演习的方式速度超出了我们自身的能力。

　　The MOD has over two hundred files packed full of information about UFOs. 国防部已超过200档挤满信息不明飞行物。   Of these, I believe that around twenty have been made available at the Public Record Office in Kew, where their release is governed by the terms of the Public Record Acts - which generally allow information to be released when it’s more than thirty years old. 这些，我认为，大约20提供了在公共记录办公室基尤，他们的释放是由规定的公共记录的行为-这通常导致信息被释放时，三十余岁。   I’m well aware that ufologists have been very excited about the prospect of a UK Freedom of Information Act and have been planning to blitz the MOD with requests for UFO data. 我清楚地知道， ufologists已经感到非常振奋的前景是英国信息自由法案，并已计划在突击国防部请求的不明飞行物数据。   This is precisely what happened in America, where the casefiles of the United States Air Force study into UFOs (Project Blue Book) were made public. 这正是发生在美国，那里的casefiles美国空军研究不明飞行物（项目蓝皮书）公布了。   I had access to all the MOD’s UFO files, and can tell people that if and when this information is made public, there is some very exciting information that will be made available. 我已经获得的所有国防部的不明飞行物文件，可以告诉人们，如果这方面的资料公开，有一些非常令人兴奋的信息，将提供。   So what can people expect to find? 那么，人们期望找到？

　　Over the years, the MOD has been involved in a wide variety of sensational UFO cases which defy any conventional explanation. 多年来，国防部一直参与各种耸人听闻的不明飞行物案件藐视任何常规的解释。   One of the earliest took place in August 1956 when a UFO was tracked on radar systems at RAF Bentwaters and RAF Lakenheath. 最早发生在1956年8月时追踪不明飞行物是在英国皇家空军雷达系统Bentwaters和Raf Lakenheath 。   Two RAF jets were scrambled in an attempt to intercept the mystery craft, and a game of cat and mouse ensued as the pilots attempted to lock-on to the target. 两名英国皇家空军战斗机紧急起飞，试图拦截工艺之谜，以及游戏的猫捉老鼠的飞行员随后试图锁定的目标。   But the UFO was too quick and too agile, and managed to elude the pilots, who eventually ran low on fuel and were forced to return to base. 但不明飞行物太快，太敏捷，并设法逃避飞行员，谁最终然低的燃料，被迫返回基地。

　　Britain’s most sensational UFO case occurred in December 1980 in Rendlesham Forest , between RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge. 英国最轰动的不明飞行物案件发生在1980年12月在Rendlesham森林之间，英国皇家空军和英国皇家空军伍德布里奇Bentwaters 。   UFO activity was witnessed over a series of nights, and on one occasion a military guard patrol encountered a landed UFO. 不明飞行物活动目睹了一系列的夜，有一次军事巡逻遇到降落不明飞行物。   The Deputy Base Commander, Lt Col Charles Halt, submitted an official report to the MOD, describing the UFO as “metallic in appearance and triangular in shape”. 副基地指挥官，中校查尔斯停止，提交一份正式报告，以国防部的资料，描述了不明飞行物为“金属的外观和三角的形状。 ”   Radiation readings were subsequently taken from the landing site, 辐射读数后来从着陆地点，        and were found to peak in the three indentations where the craft had touched down in a clearing. 和被发现的三个高峰期缺口的工艺已经降落在一个信息。

　　In November 1990 a number of RAF Tornado jets were overtaken by a UFO whilst flying over the North Sea, and this is just one of several aerial encounters on file. 在1990年11月的一些皇家空军旋风式战机取代了不明飞行物，而飞越北海，而这仅仅是几个空中相遇的文件。   The most disturbing of these relate to a series of terrifying near-misses between UFOs are civil aircraft. 最令人不安的，这些涉及到了一系列可怕的近错过飞碟之间的民用飞机。   There were two such cases from 1991, both involving incidents over Kent, and another from 1995, involving a Boeing 737. 有两个从1991年这类案件，无论涉及事件肯特，另一个自1995年以来，涉及的波音737客机。   The pilots encountered what they described as a brightly lit UFO while on their approach to Manchester airport, and believed that it had passed only yards from their aircraft. 飞行员遇到他们称为灯火通明不明飞行物，同时对他们的做法曼彻斯特机场，并认为它已通过仅有数米的飞机。     This incident was investigated by the Civil Aviation Authority, but no explanation was ever found. 这件事的调查，民航管理局，但没有解释是迄今发现。

　　One of the most sensational cases I ever investigated related to an incident that occurred in the early hours of March 31, 1993. 其中最耸人听闻的案件我曾经调查有关的事件发生在凌晨， 1993年3月31日。   There had been a wave of UFO sightings that night, culminating in the direct overflight of two military bases, RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury. 出现了一波幽浮目击那天晚上，终于在直接飞越两个军事基地，英国皇家空军Cosford和Raf Shawbury 。        The UFO was described to me by one of the military witnesses as being a vast, triangular craft only marginally smaller than a jumbo jet. 不明飞行物的描述给我的一个军事证人是一个庞大的，三角工艺仅略有小于大型喷气式客机。   It flew slowly over the base at a height of around 200 feet, firing a narrow beam of light at the ground, before flying off at high speed. 飞行缓慢基地在高度约200英尺，发射窄光束在地面，然后起飞高速。

　　These then, are the sorts of incidents to be found in the MOD’s UFO files: visual sightings correlated by radar; incidents where military jets have been scrambled; near-misses with civil airliners and reports of landings. 这些然后是各种各样的事件中可以找到国防部的不明飞行物文件：视觉看到相关的雷达;军用飞机事件发生已经炒;近怀念与民间飞机和报告着陆。   Some of these incidents were classified secret at the time. 其中一些事件被列为机密的时候。

　　The files contain various other material of interest to researchers, and because of the perceived link with UFOs, contain some reports of alien abductions, crop circles and animal mutilations. 该文件包含的其他各种材料感兴趣的研究人员，和由于知觉联系不明飞行物，包含了一些报告的外来绑架，作物和动物界肉刑。   Perhaps it’s no surprise that as I got drawn into such mysteries I found myself dubbed “The Real Fox Mulder”! 也许这是毫不奇怪，因为我卷入这种奥秘我发现自己被称为“真正福克斯穆尔德” ！

　　So will the release of official files end speculation that the Government has been covering up the truth about UFOs? 因此，将释放的官方文件结束猜测，政府一直掩盖真相的飞碟？   This is unlikely. 这是不可能的。   The release of official files in America simply fuelled interest in the subject, and led to accusations that other more highly classified papers were still being withheld. 释放在美国官方文件只是助长对这一问题的兴趣，并导致其他万博体育app：的指责高度机密文件仍然被扣留。   The US Government’s denial was not helped by the claims of a former US Army Colonel, Philip Corso, who claimed that the so-called Roswell incident from 1947 really did involve the crash of a UFO. 美国政府的拒绝是没有帮助的索赔的美国前陆军上校，菲利普高碌街，谁声称，所谓的罗斯威尔事件确实涉及1947年坠毁的不明飞行物。   He claimed that he’d seen the bodies, and that his job at the Pentagon involved him in finding ways to use the technological secrets gleaned from the debris of the craft. 他声称，他希望看到尸体，而且他的工作在五角大楼参与他设法使用技术秘密收集到的碎片的工艺。   Corso died of a heart attack shortly after going public with these claims, so took the secrets to his grave. 高碌街因心脏病发作而去世后不久上市的这些索赔，因此采取了秘密，他的坟墓。   Conspiracy theorists love this sort of thing, and are unlikely to be satisfied by any release of papers that doesn’t support their own bizarre theories about cover-ups and sinister conspiracies. 阴谋论者喜欢这样的事情，是不可能满足任何释放文件，不支持自己的奇怪理论，瞒报和险恶阴谋。   There isn’ta cover-up in the UK, although a letter sent from the MOD to the American Government in 1965 admits that MOD policy “is to play down the subject of UFOs”. 有没有掩盖在英国，虽然致函由国防部向美国政府在1965年承认，国防部的政策“是淡化问题的不明飞行物” 。

　　My three years of official research and investigation into the UFO phenomenon changed my life for ever. 我3年的正式研究和调查不明飞行物现象，改变了我的生活永远。   I’d come into the job as a sceptic, but on the basis of the cases I’d looked at, and what I’d discovered in the files, I came to believe that some UFOs might well be extraterrestrial. 我想进入就业作为一个怀疑论者，但根据我的情况看，什么我的档案中发现的，我相信，一些不明飞行物可能是外星人。    If these files are now to be made public, I think people are in for a big surprise, and I believe that like me, people will come to see that this is a serious subject which raises very important defence and national security issues. 如果这些文件现在可以公开，我认为人们是在为一个巨大的惊喜，我相信，像我这样的人会来看看，这是一个严重的问题，提出了非常重要的国防和国家安全问题。   As far as these files are concerned … the truth is in there! 至于这些文件涉及...事实是在那里！