March 2009 highlights guide

 p73
In 1992 an illuminated airship advertising the Ford Mondeo caused a
large number of UFO reports when it flew at night over central London
(see also DEFE 31/180 p12)
 p123
Article from The Scotsman about alleged sightings of US spy planes
over Scotland (see also p136 – 137, p152 – 155 and p 288 - 289)
 p128
Two air traffic controllers at Heathrow filed a report describing a black
inverted boomerang shaped UFO seen from the control tower on the
morning of 17 December 1992 (see p281 – 282 for reports of a similar
sighting in Lincolnshire a week earlier)
 p136 – 137
Article in Jane's Defence Weekly about alleged sightings of US spy
planes over Scotland (see also p123, p152 – 155 and p288 – 289)
 p152 – 155
Article from Quest (UFO magazine) about alleged sightings of US spy
planes over Scotland (see also p123, p136 – 137 and p288 – 289)
 p178 – 180
In November 1992 a Brighton man reported seeing a brightly-lit UFO
shaped like a "squashed rugby ball" hovering above his house.
Through the windows in the side, he saw two men wearing beige
uniforms – when one of them spotted him the lights went out and the
UFO moved out to sea. An RAF note reads: "Caller sounded genuine
enough and his main concern seemed to be that he didn't want to talk
too much about the craft if it was 'on of ours that we wanted to keep
secret'".
 p187 – 190
Copies of newspaper stories and correspondence from the public
following a story in the Grimsby Evening Telegraph in 1992 alleging
that Captain William Schaffner (USAF exchange pilot), who had died
during an exercise in 1970, had in fact been involved in a secret
operation to intercept UFOs over the North Sea (see also p210 – 268;
a full copy of the RAF Board of Inquiry report into the fatal crash, which
does not mention UFOs, is at DEFE 31/181 p240 – 246).
 p210 – 268
Copies of newspaper stories and correspondence from the public
following a story in the Grimsby Evening Telegraph in 1992 alleging
that Captain William Schaffner (USAF exchange pilot), who had died
during an exercise in 1970, had in fact been involved in a secret
operation to intercept UFOs over the North Sea (see also p181 – 197;