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Mario Borghezio, an Italian member of the European Parliament, has called for the European Union to have its own, centralised, X-Files where anyone would be able to access information on UFOs, even records held by the military. Borghezio has argued that governments should go public with the information they hold and stop what he believes is a “systematic cover-up”. Not satisfied with a cent­ral archive, Borghezio also wants a scientific centre to research UFOs, because he feels that such study would have “major scientific and technological spin-offs”. Clearly, the cover-up in which Borghezio believes is so secret that even he has no actual knowledge of what it is hiding. “I think that, under the principle of transparency, the EU member states have a duty to make public and available to all scientific data on UFOs which today are partially or wholly withheld,” he added. Unfortunately, Borghezio’s request for support from the 736-strong member assembly appears to have fallen on deaf ears, as to date he has only collected 18 signatures. D. Telegraph, 6 July 2010.