{"id":9704,"date":"2020-11-26T08:55:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T08:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=9704"},"modified":"2020-11-26T08:55:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T08:55:48","slug":"dr-david-clarke-secret-ufo-probes-hidden-from-uk-government-as-military-didnt-trust-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/dr-david-clarke-secret-ufo-probes-hidden-from-uk-government-as-military-didnt-trust-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr David Clarke: Secret UFO probes ‘hidden from UK Government’ as military ‘didn’t trust’ them"},"content":{"rendered":"

Contemporary legend expert, Dr David Clarke, has been quoted in a\u00a0Daily Star<\/a> article saying that the Ministry of Defence’s secret extra-terrestrial investigators “didn’t trust” civil servants with their information.<\/p>\n

Lecturer and investigative journalist, David Clarke, uncovered the Defence Intelligence Staff’s 400-page study into 10,000 UFO sightings in 2005. He has now said its military officials often kept their findings secret from civil servants over fears the information would be leaked.<\/p>\n

Dr Clarke added former Government UFO investigators who have gone public over the findings such as Nick Pope “didn’t investigate anything”. He told the UFO Podcast with Martin Willis: “There was a UFO desk where he was an incumbent for three years but he was just one of dozens of different people who did that task and he didn’t actually investigate anything.<\/p>\n

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Contemporary legend expert, Dr David Clarke, has been quoted in a\u00a0Daily Star article saying that the Ministry of Defence’s secret extra-terrestrial investigators “didn’t trust” civil servants with their information. Lecturer and investigative journalist, David Clarke, uncovered the Defence Intelligence Staff’s 400-page study into 10,000 UFO sightings in 2005. 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