"This in Itself Is a Threat": Mentioned in UK Secret Documents from 30 Years Ago

Military Intelligence on High Alert Over Possible Superior Flight Capabilities
Designated as UAP Instead of UFO
Official Review of Potential Military Threat

It has been revealed through the release of classified documents that the UK Ministry of Defence conducted urgent investigations in the 1990s, judging numerous unidentified flying objects (UFOs) as potential threats to national security. On January 4 (local time), the British media outlet The Sun reported that the UK National Archives recently released classified documents from the Ministry of Defence.

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The UK has been making classified documents older than 20 years available to the public. According to The Sun, these documents show that senior military officials and intelligence authorities at the time regarded unidentified aerial phenomena as a highly significant security issue and began analyzing them. An internal Ministry of Defence document from 1997 used the term “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP)” instead of “UFO,” and stated, “If multiple people witness the same type of anomalous object, there may be an actual physical basis.” The document further specified, “Unknown UAPs can pose a potential threat within the domain of national defense.”

Another document noted, “If the reported flight performance and technology are true, this is technology we do not possess,” adding, “Regardless of the source, it is the mission of Defence Intelligence to identify and, if possible, acquire such technology.” This demonstrates that the threat was perceived as the existence of advanced flight technology beyond the country’s control, rather than the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

The documents also mention the thousands of reported sightings of “large, low-flying black triangular objects” across Belgium between 1989 and 1990. At the time, the Belgian Air Force even scrambled fighter jets, but was unable to identify the objects, drawing attention within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Additionally, the incident in which US Air Force personnel reported witnessing an unidentified flying object in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, in 1980 was also included in the analysis. This incident remains one of the most well-known UFO cases to this day, and a commemorative monument has been installed at the site.