Australia's military has lost or destroyed its X-Files, detailing sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, across the country, a newspaper report said.After a two-month search in response to a newspaper Freedom of Information (FOI) request, which forces government officials to release documents of public interest, Australia's Department of Defense had been unable to locate the files, the Sydney Morning Herald said"The files could not be located and Headquarters Air Command formally advised that this file is deemed lost," the department's FOI assistant director, Natalie Carpenter, told the paper. Defense officials could not be contacted by Reuters.The only file Defense had been able to locate was a folder called: "Report on UFOs/Strange Occurrences and Phenomena in Woomera," a military weapons testing range in the center of Australia's vast outback, Carpenter said.All other files had been lost or destroyed, which the Herald said could fuel conspiracy theories about their disappearance.The single remaining file detailed a sketchy series of sightings from around the country and overseas, including people living in towns near Woomera, in South Australia state. In a time when governments all around the world including institutions like the UK MOD, the FBI & France's GEIPAN are releasing UFO files to the public Australia simply says - "We've lost or purposely destroyed them"!.Source - MSNBC Saturday, June 18, 2011
Australia's Military Destroyed Its UFO File
Australia's military has lost or destroyed its X-Files, detailing sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, across the country, a newspaper report said.After a two-month search in response to a newspaper Freedom of Information (FOI) request, which forces government officials to release documents of public interest, Australia's Department of Defense had been unable to locate the files, the Sydney Morning Herald said"The files could not be located and Headquarters Air Command formally advised that this file is deemed lost," the department's FOI assistant director, Natalie Carpenter, told the paper. Defense officials could not be contacted by Reuters.The only file Defense had been able to locate was a folder called: "Report on UFOs/Strange Occurrences and Phenomena in Woomera," a military weapons testing range in the center of Australia's vast outback, Carpenter said.All other files had been lost or destroyed, which the Herald said could fuel conspiracy theories about their disappearance.The single remaining file detailed a sketchy series of sightings from around the country and overseas, including people living in towns near Woomera, in South Australia state. In a time when governments all around the world including institutions like the UK MOD, the FBI & France's GEIPAN are releasing UFO files to the public Australia simply says - "We've lost or purposely destroyed them"!.Source - MSNBC 