Department that once investigated other-worldly sightings in Smethwick and north London could be revived after Pentagon report 28 May 2021 • 7:00pm The Government may relaunch a team of UFO hunters in the wake of a US report into alien visitors, a senior defence source has revealed. Ever since the Ministry of Defence's dedicated UFO desk was disbanded in 2009, no agency has been responsible for monitoring the skies over Britain for unidentified flying objects. However, depending on the findings of a Pentagon report into UFOs, which have been renamed Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, there is every possibility that the department could be revived. Speaking exclusively to The Telegraph, the source said: "I think that if there was enough evidence to suggest that there was something, and that we needed to do it as well as the US, then of course we'd think about it. We'd look at it. There's all sorts of things that we wouldn't rule out, and this would certainly be one of them."