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Among some UFO investigators, the Ministry of Defence is suspected to be a brick wall housed in a building in London, which appears to be one thing but in fact is another. I want to talk here about the only time I got to see the MoD in action, and why that event transformed my thinking on what really happened when UFO events were officially investigated.

It was late summer 1983, and I was living on the Wirral with my partner Paul, enjoying life in the home that we had bought together. I had just published my fifth book since 1979 – about Todmorden police officer Alan Godfrey’s alleged abduction (). However, another case occurred).

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