Churchill and UFOs

The British Ministry of Defence has begun making its UFO files public. One of the most recent batch released involves Winston Churchill.

During World War II, it seems, a RAF bomber had a very close encounter with a craft the crew of the bomber couldn't identify. Churchill ordered the incident covered up because he feared the public might panic and people might begin questioning their religious beliefs.

There have been stories about "foo fighters" during World War II since the war. Both sides reported encounters with strange craft, and each side seemed to have assumed the things were advanced aircraft from the other side. Indeed, a current favorite among UFO skeptics is to explain most UFO reports as sightings of advanced, experimental aircraft with which the public was unfamiliar.

An advanced German aircraft might have panicked the British public, although German rocket attacks-- a completely new terror, and one the RAF could not counter once the rocket was on its way-- did not break British resolve. How such an aircraft could have had the British people questioning their religious beleifs, though, is unclear. That suggests Churchill, at least, saw the craft that encountered the RAF bomber as something fundamentally different than a Nazi creation-- something that could strike at the very heart of Western civilization. Exactly what that could possibly have been, in an strictly Earthly context, is extremely difficult to imagine.