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
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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 
Friday, June 17, 2011
Australia's UFO files mysteriously disappear
Australia's military has lost its X-Files, detailing sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, across the country Photo: REUTERSBy Bonnie Malkin12:32PM BST 07 Jun 2011The department of defence has been unable to find a host of records relating to UFO sightings that were collected over several decades.
The disappearance of the documents came to light when the military received a freedom of information (FOI) request from the Sydney Morning Herald Newspaper asking for any documents that mentioned sightings of UFOs or “extraterrestrial organisms” in Australia.
The request came after the British government released a dossier of thousands of documents relating to unidentified flying objects.
However, after two months of searching the relevant archives, the department said that the documents could not be found.
A spokesman said it was likely that some of the files had been destroyed.
“Our office examined past FOI requests which related to UFOs and discovered that many of the files had been destroyed, as is normal administrative procedure,” it said in a statement.
In fact, just one file from the entire cache could be located. That related to “UFOs/Strange Occurrences and Phenomena in Woomera”, a military weapons testing range in the outback.
The lone file detailed a sketchy series of sightings from around the country and overseas, including people living in towns near Woomera, in South Australia.
Australia’s military decided to stop taking UFO sighting reports in late 2000, asking members of the public to report incidents to police instead.
UFO experts in Australia believe that the military knowingly shredded the documents.
Bill Chalker, author of The Oz Files, said that in 2003 eight years-worth of documents relating to UFO sightings were destroyed — not to cover up a shocking discovery of alien life, but as part of department “housekeeping”.
“But it does seem strange that Australia would be destroying these files while England and America was putting theirs online and making them public,” he said.
Doug Moffatt, spokesman for UFO Research New South Wales, said questions needed to be asked.
“It would be interesting to know if they have throw anything else out. If not, it starts looking dodgy.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8561250/Australias-UFO-files-mysteriously-disappear.html
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