Good evening. I'm a journalist and researcher based in Sheffield, and I've spent the better part of two decades investigating what the British government knows about UFOs. My editor thought I was mad when I started down this road. Maybe he was right. But what I'm about to tell you is all documented. You can download it yourself. Every word of it is on the public record now, but for years, the Ministry of Defence denied any of it existed. In 2005, I filed a Freedom of Information request that would eventually blow the lid off one of Britain's best-kept secrets. A classified intelligence study codenamed Project CONDIGN. The MoD fought us for eighteen months before they finally released it. When I saw what was in those files, I understood why they'd tried so hard to keep them buried.
Project CONDIGN was commissioned in 1996 by a branch of Defence Intelligence called DI55. Now, most people had never heard of DI55. That's because they were secret. Since 1967, they'd been quietly collecting UFO reports that showed what they called 'defence significance,' meaning cases that couldn't be explained away as weather balloons or aircraft. For nearly thirty years, they gathered this data and filed it away. Never analyzed it. Never drew conclusions. Just collected. Then in 1996, someone finally asked the obvious question. What did fifty years of UFO reports actually show? The Ministry coughed up about fifty thousand pounds to find out. Compare that to the twenty-two million the Pentagon spent on their AATIP program. But still, they wanted answers. The study was classified Secret, UK Eyes Only, and contracted out to a private defence firm to keep it off the radar.
The man they chose to write the report was a retired RAF pilot. Former intelligence officer. Flew classified missions during the Cold War. His expertise was electronic warfare, radar systems, air defence. He'd consulted on the Pentagon's Star Wars missile programme in the eighties. Worked for one of Britain's premier defence contractors. The perfect candidate, really. Security-cleared, technically brilliant, and already advising DI55 on aerial phenomena. Between 1997 and 2000, he analyzed approximately ten thousand UFO sightings from the MoD's database. Ten thousand cases. You can download it yourself. statistics section sounds massive - Ivy' The final report ran to four hundred sixty-five pages across three volumes. It was titled 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region.' Notice the language. Not UFOs. UAP. Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. That terminology shift wasn't an accident.
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