REVEALED: EU law blocks Britons 'from the TRUTH about UFO sightings' across UK skies

BRITONS have been left in the dark about a number of UFO sightings in UK skies because of European Union legislation, it has been reported.

By ALETHA ADU

PUBLISHED: 05:42, Thu, Jul 6, 2017 | UPDATED: 06:14, Thu, Jul 6, 2017

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is said to have blocked public access to documents which reveal a number of strange sighting

s to impede their “curiosity”.

he UK Public are completely unaware of how many UFO's are spotted

The CAA has been using European law from 2014 to block access to the public records of sightings or incidents between 2011 and 2017, the Sun reports.

The law reportedly states: “Occurrence information can only be used for the purpose of maintaining or improving aviation safety, and the release of occurrence information to the general public or the media, including in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOI) requests, is not permitted.

“However, if you require occurrence information for the purpose of maintaining or improving aviation safety you are able to make an application to the CAA.”

Although the EU protests that the information is accessible via application, a university professor suggests otherwise.

Dr David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University was previously granted access to the files.

But was shocked when his FOI requested was refused earlier this year.

He told the Sun Online: “These have been collected and logged by the CAA since at least 1976.

“For many years the CAA has released this information under FOI without any evidence that commercial secrets or safety have been harmed or compromised.

“Indeed in 2012 the chief executive of Britain's National Air Traffic Control Services, Richard Deakin, admitted in a BBC Radio 4 interview that his agency received reports of UFOs from civil aircrew somewhere in the world every month.

"To improve public confidence in air safety, the authorities should be proactively promoting open access to records of this type."

The authority reportedly claimed that public access had been blocked because the identity of pilots needed to be maintained.

A CAA spokesman said: "The Mandatory Occurrence Reporting (MOR) scheme requires individuals and organisations within the aviation industry to report safety occurrences to the CAA, with the intention that these reports are used to constantly improve safety levels.

“Information held by the CAA under the MOR system may be made available, for the purpose of improving aviation safety, subject to completing this application form."

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