LONDON -(AP) Britain's National Archives have posted a host of UFO sightings online.
The sightings range from 1986 to 1992 and include a near misses with passenger jets as well as claims of alien encounters sent in to Britain's Ministry of Defense.
Monday's release is the second batch of UFO files that Britain's National Archives has made public this year.
It includes an April 1991 sighting by an Italian pilot of missile-like object that passed closed to his plane. The object was picked up by radar but its presence was never explained.
Later that year, the crew aboard a Gatwick Airport-bound flight spotted "a small black lozenge-shaped object" that came within a few hundred feet (less than 100 meters) of the aircraft. That was also never fully explained.
The following was one of the reports in the archives...
Fighter pilot ordered to shoot UFO at height of Cold War
London - An American fighter pilot flying from an English air base at the height of the Cold War was ordered to open fire on a massive UFO that lit up his radar, according to an account published by Britain's National Archives on Monday.
The fighter pilot said he was ordered to fire a full salvo of rockets at the UFO moving erratically over the North Sea - but that at the last minute the object picked up enormous speed and disappeared. The account, first published in Britain's Daily Star newspaper more than 17 years ago and to this day unverified by military authorities, was one of many carried in the 1,500 pages the archives made available online.
The unnamed pilot said he and another airman were scrambled on the night of May 20, 1957 to intercept an unusual "bogey" on radars at a Royal Air Force Station Manston, an airfield at the southeastern tip of England about 75 miles (120 kilometers) from central London.
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