Ministry of Defence UFO files: release of 14 May 2008 (8 files)

The 8 Ministry of Defence UFO files opened at The National Archives on 14 May 2008. Each is a digital copy of an MoD registered file, with the names of members of the public and witnesses redacted. Our copies come from public mirrors of the release (The Black Vault, archive.org) and are OCR'd for search; page numbers are those of the PDFs.

• DEFE 31/172: UFO incidents — 1978 Feb 12 - 2002 Dec 10
• DEFE 31/173: UFO incidents — 1983 June 21 - 1985 March 28
• DEFE 31/174: UFO incidents — 1985 April 12 - 1986 Dec 18
• DEFE 31/175: UFO incidents — 1986 Dec 20 - 1987 Nov 20
• DEFE 24/1922: UFO reports — 1984 sept 01 - 1985 Jan 01
• DEFE 24/1923: UFO reports — 1985 Jan 01 - 1986 April 01
• DEFE 24/1924: UFO reports — 1985 Jan 01 - 1986 May 01
• DEFE 24/1925: UFO reports — 1985 Oct 01 - 1986 Sept 01

Search the full text of these files on the MoD UFO files search page.

Sources: The National Archives' catalogue (descriptions, covering dates and opening date of each file)