A BRITISH weapons lab shrouded in mystery has finally spoken out on claims it is storing alien bodies in the secret facility.
Porton Down is the UK's most confidential
In 1999, it was the subject of a novel by , who worked for the Ministry of Defence, and even had to be cleared prior to publication.
The fictional “what if” book deals with UFOs and “alien abductions” and Pope speculated that alien bodies could have been taken to in Wiltshire.
The facility was founded in 1916 as Britain's chemical and biological weapons laboratory.
Defence ministry scientists carried outinvolving some 20,000 servicemen, leading to the death of one from exposure to sarin nerve gas.
Since the 1960s, it has focused on developing countermeasures and defence and security technology.
But its has led to, especially among flying-saucer theorists.
“No aliens, either alive or dead have ever been taken to Porton Down,” the government's website reads.
Posting to debunk the theories, the page is titled “The Truth about Porton Down: Answering the myths and misconceptions”.
“In the interests of national security much of this work is secret.
“Inevitably this has led to many myths and misconceptions springing up about Porton Down and the wider work carried out by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory.
“No aliens, either alive or dead have ever been taken to Porton Down or any otherDstlsite.”
It added: “Dstland its predecessors do not and have never grown cannabis at Porton Down.”
This follows the false myth spread by some claiming the government are growing the drug there.
The top secret defence base was instrumental in helping identify the nerve agent used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
Queen Elizabeth also visited the top secret base in 2020, after the coronavirus lockdown.
During their trip, the late queen and Prince William met the Porton Down staff and military personnel who were involved in the Novichok clear-up operation, along with scientists helping the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The formal purpose of the trip was to open the lab's new, where the queen and the prince were given a demonstration of a forensic explosives investigation.
They also toured the lab's Energetic Enclosure to see a display of weaponry and tactics used in counter intelligence.
