Despite partial disclosure, Europe's UFO files remain mostly under wraps

[Ezechiel]

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4783950,00.html

On August 4, 1990, an unidentified flying object was seen hovering in daylight near the town of Pitlochry in Scotland. Eyewitnesses stated that the diamond shaped object hung in the sky for about 10 minutes as two military aircraft made a series of low-level passes near it.

Almost three weeks later on August 24, hundreds of tourists and local residents observed formations of luminous spheres for over 30 minutes in the sky near the German city of Greifswald, located close to the coast of the Baltic Sea.

In November of that year, a triangular object was seen by numerous witnesses passing over Saint-Germain in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France. The object moved slowly at low altitude and emitted beams of light towards the ground before eventually speeding away.

All three events have many common factors, most notably that each one remains unexplained to this day. But one - the Greifswald incident - is the odd one out. This is because official documentation on the Pitlochry and Saint-Germain sightings collected by British and French governmental agencies are now available to the public after France and the UK took decisions to open up their UFO files.

Germany among those remaining silent on UFO phenomena

"Germany has a high level of UFO sightings," Robert Fleischer, the coordinator for the German Initiative for Exopolitics, told Deutsche Welle.

 

[Rudolf Steiner]

OF COURSE! All makes sense now! In what country ruled the Nazis? Germany. In what conuntry there are a large number of UFO shightings? Germany. NAZIS=UFO's. I rest my case

 

[Kieran]

OF COURSE! All makes sense now! In what country ruled the Nazis? Germany. In what conuntry there are a large number of UFO shightings? Germany. NAZIS=UFO's. I rest my case

That makes no sense.Just because you have sightings over Germany which involved UFO's, that does not led to a conclusion of Nazis=UFO's The Nazis had advanced rockets, and the allies were so far behind them it was frightening, plus they had designs and plans drawn up which depicted Jet Aircraft... Jet!! not silent running craft, that can can travel thousands of miles an hour in a short time frame. UFO'S that have been seen and have been described as being a half mile long or more, i don't think, we are even able today, to achieve that and keep something that big in the sky, never mind in THE 1940's.

 

[Rudolf Steiner]

I was joking. That Nazis from Space theories makes me laugh.

 

[Thunderbird4]

I'm keen to get past the Nazi UFO nonsense and make the point that Germany isn't the only European nation to show little interest in revealing what they have, I think the point is they are happy to let everyone else start the ball rolling. I also don't think any of them are likely to release anything controversial, It will be the same sort of vague stuff that the UK have put out.
I had a conversation with an elderly man last year on holiday and he brought the subject around to UFO's. At the time the MOD had just released documents that related to his experience at R.A.F. Little Rissington. I'm assuming he hadn't seen the release and felt at liberty to tell his story as he witnessed it.
The point was that the MOD report that was released made no mention of the object floating around the airfield for near an hour while he watched from the control tower prior to the jets taking off. Possibly the idea of such a provocative act right in their faces was a bit embarrassing as it implied indecision on the part of the duty officer in allowing the scenario to play out for so long.
Sometimes it just comes down to petty details.