 The files contain verbal and drawn accounts of UFO encounters |
Thousands of UFOs have been spotted in the last 20 years around the UK, according to newly released documents.
More than 6,000 pages of reports describe people's experiences with unidentified flying objects between 1994 and 2000.
They include reported sightings over Chelsea Football Club and former home secretary Michael Howard's Kent home.
Details have been released under a three-year project between the Ministry of Defence and The National Archives.
The fifth instalment to be released consists of 24 files of sightings, letters and Parliamentary questions, which are available to view online.
The reports detail how objects of various shapes and sizes have been witnessed flying over a range of locations.
Some drawings by witnesses have also been released.
One man told police he was physically sick and developed a "skin condition" after an eerie "tube of light" enveloped his car in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, on 27 January, 1997.
In another case, a UFO sighted by Boston and Skegness police, in Lincolnshire, was captured on film.
The police reported the sighting to the coastguard, which in turn alerted ships in the North Sea, where a crew reported seeing more UFOs.
Simultaneously, an unidentified blip was picked up on radar over Boston.
Also included in the latest release is a letter from senior MoD official Ralph Noyes, in which he describes seeing a film of UFOs captured by RAF fighter pilots in 1956.
Mr Noyes claims the footage was shown at a secret underground screening arranged for air defence staff at the MoD in 1970.
And a memo reveals how former prime minister Winston Churchill expressed curiosity in "flying saucers" and requested a briefing from his ministers.
He was told in reply that following an intelligence study conducted in 1951, the "flying saucers" could be explained by "one or other" of four causes.
These were known astronomical or meteorological phenomena, mistaken identification of conventional aircraft, optical illusions and psychological delusions, or deliberate hoaxes.
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