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The National Archives published this edited extract from Chapter 2 of David Clarke's 2009 book The UFO Files, which draws on Ministry of Defence UFO records. It covers Stan Hubbard's 1950 Farnborough sightings, which the Flying Saucer Working Party attributed to optical illusion or normal aircraft. It also covers Churchill's 1952 memo asking about flying saucers, the Topcliffe sighting during Operation Mainbrace, a Meteor crew's sighting from Little Rissington, and RAF research concluding that most radar 'angels' were birds.
pilots, military: large object sightings over Alps 29–30; sighting of foo-fighters 23–5, 27–8; UFO sightings by 43–4, 56–7, 58, 62, 64–7, 89–90, AB, 125, 127–8 pilots, civilian: and near miss incidents 129–32; and UFO sightings 125, 127–8 plasmas, atmospheric 143–4 Pope, Nick 121–2, 135, 138; Open Skies, Closed Minds 138 Project Blue Book 46, 51, 57, 60, 61, 63, 66, 74, 81, 127 Project Condign see Condign Report Project Grudge 40, 42, 46 Project Sign 39–40 ProjectY 61, ?: Provost & Security Service (P&SS) 92 Pugh, Randall Jones 90–1 Punchbowl (Cheesefoot Head) 114 Q Quartermass Experiment,The 116 R radar angels 25–6, 27, 51–2 radar incidents 25–6, ;@, 33–4, 46, 51–4, 58, >B, 64–6, 68–9, 145 Ramey, Brigadier Roger 37 Randles, Jenny 132 Rees, Lord Martin 150 Rees, Merlyn 74 Rendlesham Forest incident (1980) 103–9, :9=, 138 Rennie, Michael 116 Rice, Donald 136 Ridpath, Ian 107, 108, 132 Roberts, Andy 24 Robertson, Dr Bob 27–8, 29, 57, 60 Robinson, Douglas 15 rockets, ghost 32–3, 36 Roswell Files report (1994 /5) 38–9 Roswell incident (1947) 36–9, @, 96, 144; large object sightings over the Alps 29–30; radar incidents 25–6, 27; spotting of UFO during raid on southern France 30–1, <: ‘secret weapon’ hypothesis 36, 40 see also ‘black projects’ Sheerness incident (1912) 13–14 Sheppard, Graham 127 Shuttlewood, Arthur 90 Silbury Hill, crop circles 113 ‘Silent Vulcans’ 136 Simon, Dr Benjamin 118 Skyhook programme 39–40, 61–2 Soviet Union 40, 61–2; denouncement of UFOs 64 Spielberg, Steven 94, 112 Sputnik 100 spy planes: and UFO sightings 62–4 SR-71 Blackbird 63, 64, 136 Startup, Bill 96 stealth aircraft 127, 133, :<<, 134, 136, 139 Stevens, Patrick 97, 98, 101 Strabolgi, Lord (David Kenworthy) 98, 101, 148, 149 Strieber,Whitley: Communion 121 Sueter, Murray F. 13–14 ‘sun dogs’ 83 Sunday Dispatch 41 Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) 27 Sweden: and ghost rocket scare 32–3 Swiney, Air Commodore Michael 48–50, 51, 141 T Taylor, Anne 82 Thayer, Gordon 66 Thing from AnotherWorld, The 116 Thomas, Dafyd Ellis 87–8 Thurkettle,Vince 107, 108 Titchmarsh, Pam 112 Tizard, Sir Henry 41, 42, 145 Today 114, 115 Tomorrow’sWorld 78 Topcliffe incident (1952) 47–8, =B Tornado crew, UFO report (1990) 134 Torres, Lieutenant Milton 67–8 Trefgarne, Lord David 109 Trimingham, RAF 52 Truman, President Harry 46 Tudor, Rear-Admiral F.C.T. 17 Turnbull, Hugh 91 Turney, G.L. 42 Twining, General Nathan F. 39 U U2 spy plane 62–3, 64 UFO cover up 38, 39, 70, 94, 106–7, 108, 115, 149 UFO database 142 UFO Desk 69–70, 81, 90, 113, 135, 138, 145, 146, 149–50 UFO flaps: (1952) 46–7; (1967) 73–5, 80, 128; and Condign study 143; February (1988) 120; March (1993) 135, 138; Washington (1952) 46, 57;Welsh (1977) 90–1, 93 UFO hotspots 90–1 UFO Register,The 55 ‘UFO Solar’ 131 UFOs (unidentified flying objects): attempts to control spread of information about sightings 57–8, 60; balloons as explanation for sightings 15, 34, 37, 38, 46, 58, 61–2, 64, 74, 78, 82; debate in House of Lords on 96–7, 148, 149; destruction ofreports 9, 50, 68; difficulties faced by official investigations 78; ending of I N D E X 1 5 9
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