AudioBlog: The 1993 Cosford Incident

On March 30, and 31, 1993, reports of a UFO over Southern England
came in to the Ministry of Defense. Nick Pope was manning the “UFO
desk” at the time, and he described that “the phones were ringing
off the hook.” He posted a description of the most dramatic reports
on February 20, 2007, on the Physics Forum website. He appeared in
a 2009 7 News Spotlight (an Australian program) segment presented
by Russ Coulthart and described himself as “broadly skeptical” and
his investigation of this series of reports as “the turning point.”
Pope described the case in his 1996 book, “Open Skies, Closed
Minds,” which helped to make it a classic, but Jenny Randles of the
British UFO Research Association suspected that some of the
sightings were of a satellite rocket booster from Cosmos 2235 (sent
up by the Commonwealth of Independent States) re-entering the
atmosphere. One report from RAF Shawbury that was described by Pope
was later reconsidered by the witness as also having a prosaic
explanation. Because the file (Part 1, Part 2) on the case was
released to the public by the MoD, the details of the case can be
examined by anyone with an interest.Read more