Lack of UFOs Shuts Down British Flying Saucer Bureau.

From: Skeptical Inquirer | Date: July 1, 2001| Author: Frazier, Kendrick | Copyright information

"The British Flying Saucer Bureau, which has been hunting for extraterrestrial activity for a half a century, has closed," according to an Australian Associated Press report published in the Sydney Morning Herald on April 23.

The bureau, which at one time boasted 1,500 members worldwide, has over the years received weekly reports lis...

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