Churchill and UFOs, maybe

Time.com has a short article by Alexandra Silver about Winston Churchill:

Forty-five years after his death, Winston Churchill continues to make news with his possible cover-up of a UFO sighting. Britain's Ministry of Defense has just released its latest batch of UFO-related files to the National Archives, and among the more than 5,000 pages are letters, written in 1999, from the grandson of a Royal Air Force member who'd served as one of the former Prime Minister's bodyguards. According to the letter writer, a scientist who'd heard the story from his mother, the bodyguard claimed that during World War Two, Churchill, intending to avert "mass panic", ordered the fifty-year classification of an encounter between an RAF aircraft and a mysterious flying object. Churchill had reportedly discussed the matter with General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Although the Ministry of Defense has no documentation of the episode, its UFO files before 1967 no longer exist. Churchill definitely did, however, request a report on flying saucers in 1952.

There's a more complete list of Top Ten Weird Government Secrets here, including Area 51, the Loch Ness monster, killing Castro, and the secret rooms at Grand Central. Good for weird freaks...