Uk Mod To Destroy All Future Ufo Reports Article Removed

I saw the following story today (date Feb. 28th, 2010) on realufos.net discussing the apparent reason behind the UK Ministry of Defence's decision to shut down it's UFO reporting hotline. The story was originally posted on the website of a UK newspaper (harehillstoday.co.uk), but the story has since been removed! A search for the article title will result in an inactive link to the with no title or description. So the article obviously did appear on the website at one time, but was haphazardly removed...

UK MOD to destroy all future UFO reports !

The timing of this just doesn't make sense - The UK Ministry of Defence has decided to shut down its Ufo reporting hotline just as Ufo reports soar. What do you think is the real reason behind this shocking decision:

The Ministry of Defence will destroy all future UFO reports it receives so it does not have to make them public, a previously secret memo reveals.

Britain's official UFO investigation unit and hotline were closed down at the start of December.

Since then reports of strange sights in the skies sent to the MoD have been kept for 30 days before being thrown out, the newly released policy document shows.

This stance was adopted so defence officials would not have to publish the information in response to freedom of information (FoI) requests or pass it to the National Archives.

The memo, dated November 11, 2009, sets out the MoD's reasons for shutting its UFO unit and ceasing to invite the public to send in details of sightings.