Dublin comedian Andrew Maxwell held at gunpoint by FBI while making UFO doc

Controversial BBC TV documentary crew almost got in some very hot water in Nevada

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Dublin comedian Andrew Maxwell (right) and a member of the BBC crew at the infamous white letter-box:

Photo by � Darren Perks

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“Things then eased off a bit and we were all then taken one by one off the restricted area to the sheriffs who issued us with a ticket and grilled us about what we were doing. We all got fined £375 each.

“We were told that this incident was so serious that Washington had to call London to advise that 12 'Brits' had just breached security at America's most top-secret military base and that we all were at one point going to jail for six months.”

This same BBC crew caused outrage early this year in Britain for suggesting that the 7/7 attacks on London were coordinated by the government to boost support for the Iraq war. The blast in the center of the London city killed 52 people when four suicide bombers detonated their home-made devices.

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