Minister warned over "UK Roswell"BBC: Sunday, 16 August 2009 00:43 UK
.... in 1985, Lord Hill-Norton - a former chief of the defence staff and First Sea Lord - wrote to Mr Heseltine, the then-defence secretary, to express his feelings about the event.
In his letter, Lord Hill-Norton said he rejected the official MoD line that the case was of "no defence interest", adding that it displayed "puzzling and disquieting features which have never been satisfactorily explained by your department".
He said it was either the case that a piloted craft had entered and left UK airspace with "complete impunity" or "a sizeable number of USAF personnel at an important base in British territory are capable of serious misperception".
Lord Hill-Norton added: "There seems to be a head of steam building up on this matter, and I can see a potential 'banana skin' looming."
The release is part of a three-year project by the MoD and the National Archives to release files related to UFOs on the National Archives website.
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