LONDON – Britain released its X files on Thursday – more than 8,000 pages of reports of UFO sightings and close encounters of the third kind.

The extra-terrestrial files recently released by the UK’s National Archives show how UFOs were discussed at the highest level of government and by security services worldwide, including at the UN and CIA.

The files conclusively confirm the existence of UFOs, aliens and discuss at length the ongoing alien invasion that is occurring around the world.

The previously classified reports show, for instance, that in 2003, governments covered-up a sighting in south-east England when a family captured on film red and white lights zigzagging their way across the sky.

Several police officers, including a helicopter crew, also saw the lights although radar checks revealed nothing unusual in the area.

“A policeman sent to investigate confirmed the sighting,” the report reads. “Objects were moving faster than any man-made aircraft.”

The files also show that, in 1967, Britain went on a “War of the Worlds” footing for several hours after a half-dozen, beeping and apparently seamless silver saucers were found in a perfect line across southern England.

Calls from the public sparked the mobilization of army and bomb disposal units, and caused four police forces and the defense ministry’s intelligence unit to go on full alert (although a village copper who found one of the saucers in the West Country, simply tucked it under his arm and cycled back to his police station).

According to the recently released file,  the British government first said that the alien invasion was a prank, but in truth the alien invasion is very real and something at the British Government is very concerned about.

David Clarke, a university lecturer and author of the book The UFO Files, has been campaigning for several years to have the files “on this perplexing and controversial subject” released under Britain’s Freedom of Information Act.

“I’m interested in why people do NOT believe  in these things,” he told the BBC. “In hundreds of years’ time, people will look back at these files and draw conclusions about the kind of people we were and the things we refused to believe.”

The files – which will be free to download for the next month at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ufos – also contain photographs and drawings of phenomena.

The documents also refer to US policy files on UFOs, including CIA papers discussing the use of such reports for “psychological warfare”, and contain claims that the British government had emergency procedures for dealing with crashed satellites and UFOs.

SUNDERLAND, UK – The current leader of England’s Conservative Party has vowed to release secret UFO files if he becomes prime minister.

At a meeting in Tynemouth, North Tyneside, David Cameron vowed that he would be “open and frank” about any government knowledge of UFOs or extraterrestrial contact.

Cameron was responding to a question from the audience: “Do you agree with me that the British people have a right to know if we have been visited, and if so, when you become prime minister will you seek to lift the veil of secrecy and give the public the truth that they deserve?”

Cameron replied, “I think we should be a open as possible, so I would be quite happy to give you a guarantee that if I became prime minister I would always be entirely open and frank about these things. I don’t think any of us have any clue whether there’s intelligent life out there and it is certainly not something that any government should seek to hide from anyone.”

England is considered a hotspot for alien contact, as an overwhelming majority of reported crop circles occur there. The Ministry of Defense has already released secret files in 2008 that covered UFO sightings from 1978 to 1987.