“There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.” – Sir Winston Churchill
And unlike countless other quotations that are virally ascribed to the wartime Prime Minister, he did actually say that. “Fascists of the future will be called anti-fascists,” on the other hand, he did not, regardless of the accuracy of the sentiment, say. At least, no one heard him if he did. And so to the RAF and UFOs:
The grandson of an RAF officer who served as one of Winnie’s personal bodyguards during the war has suggested that the great man ordered a cover up over an encounter between a British reconnaissance flight and an unidentified flying object. Whilst returning from a mission over occupied Europe, the aircraft was allegedly tailed by a hovering and completely silent metallic object somewhere along the English coastline.
Fearing public panic and a loss of faith in religion were the incident to have been reported in the media, Churchill apparently issued a gag order on it, which was to remain in place for fifty years. Owing, though, to insufficient public interest in such things (hmmm) the Ministry of Defence destroyed, prior to 1967, all files related to UFOs after five years of the sighting to which they related. Rather convenient, especially as the crew supposedly took photographs of the mysterious object . . . .
