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News coverage of the latest UFO files released by The National Archives focused almost entirely upon the claim that Winston Churchill ordered the cover-up of a wartime encounter between a UFO and an RAF bomber crew. Although repeated as fact by the media, the story was based entirely upon an anecdote reported in a letter received by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) as late as 1999. The letter writer said he was the grandson of an RAF officer who was “part of the personal bodyguard” of the PM during WWII and was present when the sighting was discussed with US General Eisenhower.