08 June,2011 02:45 PM IST | | ANI
The Australian Defence Ministry has reportedly lost a large number of files containing details of the Royal Australian Air Force's investigation into an unknown number of UFO sightings reported all over the country
Some of the files were marked as classified.
The only file the Ministry was able to locate was titled "Report on UFOs/Strange Occurrences and Phenomena in Woomera".
"We also discovered one [other] file, which had not been destroyed, but could not be located," The Age quoted the Ministry's Freedom of Information (FOI) Assistant Director, Natalie Carpenter, as saying.
"In an effort to retrieve this file our office conducted searches of the Defence Record Management System, National Archives Australia [Canberra], National Archives Australia [Chester Hill], Defence Archives Queanbeyan and Headquarters Air Command, RAAF Base Glenbrook."
"Despite searching these locations, the files could not be located and Headquarters Air Command formally advised that this file is deemed lost," she added.
Last year, the British government had released a large part of its dossier on unidentified flying objects after significant pressure from FOI applicants.
Over 4000 pages of the documents, detailing 800 reported encounters during the 1980s and 1990s were posted online.
