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1283 Unidentified [LORDS] Flying Objects 1284
[Lord Kings Norton.J { far with little enough results except to
spoken this evening except the noble wonder why the bounds of natural physics
Lord, Lord Trefgarne. 1 remain sceptical jseem to be broken on aU sides. Most
of the more bizarre extra-terrestrial ex- Wc~te:·n Govcrr,n~ents say th::t UFO:; do
planations. I remain more tban sceptical, not exist, but r. think th:.;t the French Iindeed, incredulous, of what the noble Minister of Defence, ~L Robert Gdley, in
Earl in his .Motion called "landings "; February, 1974, said that they do; that his
but I support him wholeheartedly in l1is Government tak(:;s thoa sericusly and rh2t
wish for a serious inquiry. I l:ope that they have been studied secretly by a spcci;;J
the Government will tr.ke steps to put deparrment for ever 20 years. Indeed
such an inquiry in hand. Fin;>.Ily, I France leads the world in UFO rc-scr;rch:
ccme back to the matter of tc~minology. It has followed 1.:p sightings with rclice
In his Motion, the noble Earl called for teQms, scientists and scholars and, since
"an intra-governmental study". The 1950, the Deuxii!lne Bureau of the Army.
noble Lord, Lord Trdgarnc, and, I think,
the noble Lcrd, Lord Gladwyn, took
this to be an inter-governmental study.
But " intra " means " within ". I was
puzzled by nv~ use of the prefix, but that
is what it means and presucers tkt literally filled the s:.;:y
above them. Ev~ry important Am~rican
newspaper told the :;tory. With few
excertions, the 1• ;~~·;, cun~~-s c '.:.""~·~,,o "',e "'- ~('' ce,n~kmd that 1 ~hou!d hke to see li!"OU'C:ht mto tu~~· \,JL a' \ ... st L: v\):-.dgv of ~-lCLCc
bema under 1 M.:my men have seen taese Sights arrd have,e r;o '" l ' . .... legafficd
Lord RANKEILLOUR: My Lords, as?. fable, but now cur le:~ding naturalist
first, I must t1umk the ncb!e Earl, Lord says that it (or they, possibly) probably
Clanceeks ago a Palermo
UFO sag" is deep and complex and there policeman photogrn;)hed one, and four
ore no kn::Hvn C.':perts to keep us t!p to date IItalian N.wy oii1cers &bc• rer
to be misinfot
below par in
why has some
subject be•.;n
Ministry of l
this Ministry
false !nrc~-rnat
fal$e informat
dvil nnd Air
sailors and
public who !~
perience wlu<
frightened thei
My Lord~, '
know; and l
Gove~1~n~cnts:
i;l one form 01
and they cb
which seer<~
physics. Let
toJ..! by Her
reai detaih on
them, for by co::
only becon1e.s
ago a UFO \\
the Hi!:!hland:;,
Forcst~wcre bu
safe to go on i:
Who is to knc
But co:ne they
that UFOs ex
how they ope:
would be of hu:
industrial iife,
without wings
dead-slow to
hover silently.
is above pri.::t:
country shodl~
every SGrap c,t
I therefore ~"~
the study of U
up a bureau th:
and sundry '•1
opposition, i;i '