A 50th ufological anniversary

摘要

Thanks to the terms of the Freedom of Information Acts of a wide and varied body of countries (including the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and Canada), we now have access to literally tens of thousands of pages of official files on UFOs. As with reports that reach UFO researchers, the official documents vary in degrees of quality and clarity. But, one report among many that - for me - really stands out concerns a man named Colin Perks, a British police constable. Early on the morning of January 6, 1966, PC Perks had an extraordinary experience in Wilmslow, England. Such was the nature of the encounter, it became the subject of both a police file and an official, Ministry of Defense investigation. Since Perks' report is profound in the extreme, I'm presenting it without interruption. It reads as follows: