Best use of the Freedom of Information Act EVER

Published: September 27, 2007, 5:12 am

Tags: ufo, general weirdness, media, random stuff

Bet you didn’t know that the Irish government used to keep tabs on UFOs? Until 1984, the Department of Defence kept a file on Irish UFO sightings. Since then, the government has been busy with other things (ensuring we have a world-class health service, chaos-free roads and an uncorrupt Taoiseach, for instance) so the file has remained in a dusty drawer in a departmental office. It would have remained there too, had Alison Healy not come along and asked to have a look at it According to Alison’s piece in today’s paper, the dossier contained such sightings as: A UFO sighting in Boherlahan, near Cashel, Co Tipperary, in 1984 which was “the same shape as a fried egg”, had “some kind of an aerial on top, “was brown in colour” and “made a...Conspiracy of Silence; UFOs in Ireland Blather.net newsfeedBest use of the Freedom of Information Act EVER On The RecordSee 1 more posts on this topic: Freedom Information, Times,

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