The British government has released over 1000 pages of secret files on UFO sightings to the pudlic. It is the first time records on flying saucers and other unexplained objects have been made available. Britain's freedom of information laws meant the documented reports could no longer be kept a secret. Officials said that the names of many individuals who claimed they saw UFOs have been blacked out to respect their privacy. They also said that information that was vital to protect national security would not be released. There is a lot of data from the 1970s and '80s, when the cold wer was at lts height. In these two decades, Russian fighter planes were often mistaken for alien spacecraft. The reports do not say what people mistook little green men for.