Lack of UFOs Shuts Down British Flying Saucer Bureau

"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 listing up to thirty UFO sightings. These days there are rarely any such reports, and the bureau's monthly meetings have now been scrapped because of lack of participants. Denis Plunketr, who was a co-founder of the bureau in 1953, says UFO sightings are in the middle of a long trough. He says there are not enough sightings to warrant continuing.

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