MoD files include claim Churchill ordered a wartime UFO kept secret

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Winston Churchill visiting Normandy in July 1944
Winston Churchill in 1944; MoD files recorded a claim he ordered a wartime UFO report kept secret Sgt. J. Mapham, No. 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

A National Archives release of MoD UFO files included a second-hand account that Winston Churchill ordered a wartime encounter between RAF bombers and a UFO kept secret to avoid mass panic. The claim came via a relative of one of Churchill's bodyguards and is unconfirmed.

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  1. PressChurchill ordered UFO cover-up, National Archives show (opens in a new tab)BBC News / 2010-08-05

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