Aliens from outer space have been visiting Britain for years and UFO sightings doubled after the film Close Encounters was released in 1977, according to secret files collating reports by members of the public.
The alien craft come in all shapes, sizes and colors but their occupants are uniformly green, the Ministry of Defence files show.
The archives are the first batch of a four-year release programme of all the ministry's UFO files from 1978 to the present day.
The ministry dismisses 90% of the reports as having mundane explanations and leave 10% with a question mark and the assurance they are no defence threat.
A 1983 report from a 78-year-old out fishing at midnight tells
of following aliens in green overalls on to a spaceship and then
being told to go away because he was too old and decrepit for their
purposes.
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