Public Inquiries The UFO desk answered citizen sightings and maintained case files, forwarding notable incidents to intelligence branches. Closure and Releases Budget cuts shuttered the desk in 2009 after thousands of files were declassified for the National Archives. 12345 References nationalarchives.gov.uk ↩ news.bbc.co.uk ↩ assets.publishing.service.gov.uk ↩ theguardian.com ↩ en.wikipedia.org ↩