Britain’s Ministry of Defence is destroying all UFO reports it receives so it can avoid answering Freedom of Information requests.

This decision means that any future sightings - even those made by reliable sources such as aircrew, radar and police - will in future be shredded after 30 days, according to a formerly secret document released to me in response to a request under the FOIA.

Officials said these “serve no Defence purpose and merely encourage the generation of correspondence of no Defence value.”

Clearly rattled by claims they were hiding information on UFOs, MoD reveal they had “deliberately avoided formal approaches to other Governments on this issue [as these] would be viewed by ‘ufologists’ as evidence of international collaboration and conspiracy.”