Churchill 'Feared Panic Over UFOs'

Winston Churchill was accused of ordering a cover-up of an encounter between a UFO and an RAF aircraft in the Second World War because he feared a "panic" and a loss of faith in religion, according to newly-released secret files. The wartime prime minister allegedly banned reporting of the incident off the English coast for 50 years. He was said to have made the order during a meeting with Gen Dwight Eisenhower, the U.S. commander of Allied Forces, in America during the latter part of the war... According to the letters, a reconnaissance aircraft was returning from a mission when it was shadowed by a metallic UFO near the coast of England, possibly over Cumbria. Its crew photographed the object, which they said "hovered noiselessly" near the aircraft. The letter writer, a physicist from Leicester whose details are redacted in the documents, claimed that his grandfather, an RAF officer, overheard Churchill talking to Eisenhower about the incident. The two men were said to have become so concerned that the prime minister ordered it to remain secret for 50 years or more. During the meeting, a weapons expert dismissed suggestions that the object was a missile because the event was "totally beyond any imagined capabilities of the time". Another person raised the possibility of a UFO, at which point Churchill ordered the report to be classified.

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