Why the Rendlesham files were destroyed

[IanR]

Because they were of “no historical interest”.
http://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2011/03/05/172/

And in fact nothing of significance was lost anyway since it was duplicated in the existing released files.

[WizardofOdd]

Thanks Ian. This month's SUNlite pdf (found from the same link) is pretty thought provoking too! I shall continue to sit on the fence, of course

[John Burroughs]

http://filestore.nationalarchives.gov.u ... 26-1-1.pdf Sure IAN this is why you and Clarke have no credibility. Take a look at pg 178 181 182 and 183 and tell me where it says that nothing of significance was lost. In fact on 181 it says files were destroyed at a unknown date following advice by blacked out. The MOD policy since 1967 was to not destroy any UFO files. And its interesting to see Clarke claims he knows what was in those files since he didnot work according to him for the government and didnot see those files so has no Idea what was on those files. Keep trying to push your koolade IAN its getting pretty sour....

[slipX]

An amateur astronomer's persistent interest in a 'debunked' UFO case is a bit erm, unusual.

You can point your telescope to many thousands of stars that'll keep your interest occupied for years but instead you choose to return to this subject.

How very curious.

[Daniel]

I can see the descrtuction of 'UFO' documents due to no historical interest for those who aren't interested. I even can see Asbestos contaminated documents being destroyed. What I don't get, after reading the Rendlesham related pages in DEFE/24/2026, is that the documents was part of a collection, a long with documents from other years, so if Asbestos was the assumption behind the destroyed documents then wouldn't the other parts of the collection get destroyed as well?

Page 184 has a memo that says: "[redacted] called. She thought we had agreed to write to [redacted] to say the files had been destroyed."

Page 185 Mentions: "Someone(now retired) was doing a project back in 1996 and may have used the files and misplaced them."

Right here we have documents that may have gone missing, but the easiest reply to give is that the documents are destroyed.