UK: Condign UFO report released
UK Defense Intelligence Staff published a 400-page secret UFO study named Condign, analyzing 10,000 sightings. It attributes most to plasma phenomena like buoyant charged gas formations, not hostile craft.
Background
Background
On May 15, 2006, the British Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) released the secret Condign report following a freedom of information request by David Clarke and Gary Anthony in September 2005. The study, prepared by Ron Haddow, a former scientist at Marconi Electronic Systems, ran from 1997 to February 2000 and drew on some 10,000 sighting reports held by the DI55 branch of the Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence (DSTI).
Findings
The report confirms an indisputable observable presence of UAP, but finds no indication of hostility or of controlled objects. It explains most cases as misidentifications of ordinary things such as aircraft or balloons. It attributes the remaining unresolved reports to a little-understood meteorological phenomenon: buoyant plasma formations, comparable to ball lightning. These are said to produce energy fields that mimic black triangles through the refraction of light and, through electromagnetic effects, to cause hallucinations or disturbances of perception in close encounters.
Implications
Condign recommends research into military applications of this plasma and mentions briefings given to MoD technical directors. Soviet scientists are said to have recognised connections between UFOs and plasma technology for military purposes. The report identifies no threat to defence.