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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.
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intelligence interest in 145; filming of 77–8, @A, 96; naural phenomena and sightings 46, 51, 53, 80, 97, 100, 101, 132, 143–4, 145; near collision between aircraft and 128, 129–32, :;B, :, 94–5; radar incidents 25–6, ;@, 33–4, 46, 51–4, 58, >B, 64–6, 68–9, 145; recent sightings (2007/08) 146–7, 150; reduction in official interest 81–2; and ‘secret weapon’ hypothesis 36, 40; spy planes and sightings of 62–4; types of >>; Venus mistaken for 75 unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) 140 United Nations 97 United States Air Force see USAF United States Army Air Force (USAAF) 24, 25, 34 Upton Primary Junior School 93, B< USAF (United States Air Force) 25, 40, 42, 63, 105, 136; closing down Project Blue Book 81, 105; formation 39; and Project Blue Book see Project Blue Book; sightings by personnel 39, 64, 65, 69, 106, 107; and UFO reports 46, 63 USAF Missile Development Center 62 V Vandenberg, General Hoyt 40 Venus 74, 75, 97, 116 Vickers shipyard (Barrow-in- Furness): airship sightings 14–15 Vulcan crew: UFO encounter by 89–90, AB W Waddington, RAF 89 Wales: UFO sightings in West 90–3 Wall, Major Patrick 60 War Office 32 War of theWorlds radio broadcast (1938) 41 Ward, George 60–1, 66, 68–9 Warminster triangle 90, 110, 111, 112 Washington DC: UFO panic (1952) 46, 57 Wattisham, RAF 120–1 Watton, RAF 108 Waycott, Clifford 73 Weeden, Simon 105–6 Wells, H, G.: TheWar of the Worlds 115 West, David 69–70 West Drayton, RAF 128 West Freugh, RAF: UFO sightings at (1957) 53–4, 55, 64 West Malling incident (1953) 62 Westbury: crop circles at 112 Whitworth,Wing Commander Peter 53 Widdecombe-in-the-Moor (Dartmoor) 19 Will-o-the-Wisp 19, 144 Willey, Roger 73 Wiltshire: crop circles 90, 110, 111–12, 113; moving lights incident 86, 90 Wimbledon, Flight Lieutenant Freddie 64 ‘winter of discontent’ 95 Wood, Flight Lieutenant 88 Woodbridge, RAF 103, 107 X X-Files,The 135, 138 Y Yeager, Chuck 33 Z Zeppelin, Count 14 Zeppelins 12, 13–14, :=, 16 1 6 0 I N D E X
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