East Dulwich mentioned in the Sun today (story about aliens)

[Selma]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3745121/Mork-n-Mindy-aliens-spotted-in-East-Dulwich.html

[ianr]

It's contained within several hundred MB of files downloadable free from the National Archives for the next month. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/609.htm

The following is from the 397kB Highlights Guide to the set. The file of DEFE 24/2035/1, which will contain images of the report, among many others, is 28.7MB.

Mork and Mindy visit East Dulwich.

DEFE 24/2035/1, p217-18, contains an account of ?some lights, formed in a worm shape, wriggling around in the sky? that were seen in the sky by a woman and her daughter from East Dulwich, London, in the early hours of 10 January 2003. The pair became concerned about ?a possible terrorist attack? and phoned police who sent officers to the address. The following day the older woman called MoD and told the UFO desk officer the two PCs were joined by two men in ?space suits, with dark glasses who called themselves Mork and Mindy?these men told her not to look at the object because of possible radiation and they carried a transmitter which kept clicking.? They asked her not to talk to anyone in case of panic and offered to wash their eyes with a solution. Police told MoD they sent two ordinary PCs to the address but ?they could not see anything in the sky and concluded it was possibly a reflection of a star and a street light in her window.? In a letter dated 21 January 2003 the woman says ?your men have fed us with a lot of rubbish, presumably to make us look foolish and our story unbelievable, which they have succeeded in doing.?

[ianr]

I'm taking the liberty of posting copies of a letter in the file from the woman, the sole item from her directly, and an MOD note. I'll leave them up for a few days. It may at least save the NA server some work. The other stuff is just a letter to her from the MOD and internal emails confirming no military activity in the area. I'm thinking it possible that there may have been an element of some police officers 'having a larf'.

[Spaceman]

We've been here for some time and try and keep ourselves to ourselves, but sometimes you've just got to have a laugh.

We weren't in space suits though, just our normal clothes!

[spanglysteve]

I take it you've seen this site which details a UFO sighting over the HErne?

http://www.theufochronicles.com/2008/08/more-ufo-sightings-reported.html