Reports of Unidentified Flying Object: A British Perspective 1988 – DI55
Our organization made repeated requests to the MoD to formally admit that UFO reports also made their way to other agencies, but they persistently denied this. However, it is a fact of life that occasionally some government departments have a tendency to release information by accident that should have never been made public. Such a ‘ ‘gaffe’ ‘ occurred when an official document came into our hands which detailed a distribution list at the foot of a report that examined a UFO incident over Bradford, in Yorkshire, which had been telexed through to the MoD by Leeds & Bradford regional airport.
No previous documents of this kind had ever included such a distribution list. It was a major breakthrough, and revealed at a stroke that the MoD had an intricate system for analyzing and actioning UFO reports within the United Kingdom and abroad. This official document listed the following organizations and departments that would have received copies of the UFO report: Sec (AS)2 [Secretariat, Air Staff 2] AEW/GE [Airborne Early Warning/Ground Environment] AF/OPS/ 1 / 1 1 [Air Force Operations] DI55 [?]
From this distribution list, we established definite links between Britain’s Air Early Warning systems and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). We also established that the North Atlantic Defense Ground Environment (NADGE) and the United Kingdom Air Defense Ground Environment (UKADGE) would be relayed data on the report.
UKADGE is probably the most advanced air and ground defense system operated if) the world today. The network includes all Royal Navy and NATO surface vessels, AWACS aircraft (Airborne Early Warning and Control System) , Ground Radar bases around Britain, including Staxton Wold in Yorkshire. The data that is received from such sources enters RAF bases at Buchan, Boulmer, Ash, and Neatis head, and is then channeled through to the Air Defense Operational Center (ADOC) at High Wycombe.
As UFO researchers, we recognized the fact that any unknown target, be it a Soviet Backfire bomber or UFO, must be pinpointed at some stage by this virtually im pregnable defensive system. Given these facts, could we really believe the MoD has no interest in UFO reports?
And what of the other listing as yet not identified DI55?
Whitehall is a vast infra-structure of various government bodies dealing with a host of day-to-day tasks affecting the Armed Forces of Great Britain and its allies. There must be hundreds, if not thousands of telephone lines intersecting the corridors of this famous establishment.
Mick Hanson, a keen and dedicated researcher for our organization, elected to solve the mystery of Dl55 using guile, and a bit of cheek. He rang Whitehall and asked if he could be put through to AS2, but found himself being put through to another department. A few minutes later, he was speaking to yet another department, again the wrong one. He was being transferred all the time, but was eventually put through to AS2, although, we believe, on an entirely different and internal phone, thus raising no question in the mind of the AS2 operator that he was speaking with a civilian UFO researcher.
The AS2 operator was unable to help Mick with his request for data relating to a particular case that had been reported to him via South Yorkshire police in his capacity as co-ordinator of research in that area. He was put back to the internal switchboard, and requested that the opera tor put him in touch with any Whitehall department that might assist him with his research. The operator told him that if AS2 could not help, perhaps Dl55 may be more forthcoming! Mick had a very fruitful conversation with a gentleman at this previously unknown department that dealt directly with U.K. UFO reports.
Further research concluded that the Ministry of Defense had been caught with their pants down. Letters demanded an explanation as to why the existence of Dl55 had been kept hidden from researchers, but the MoD were very reluctant to admit or deny anything. We continued to delve into this deception and with the assistance of Timothy Good, finally unwrapped the most secret information of all .