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The UFO files extract

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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.

An edited extract from The UFO Files
First published in 2009 by
The National Archives
Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU
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www.national archives.gov.uk
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Cover Illustration
UFO Over a Lake, Getty images
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Fig. 14 is reproduced by kind permission of Stan
Hubbard. Figs. 15, 17, and 18 are taken from the
files at The National Archives and are © Crown
Copyright. See the relevant picture captions
for document references.The headline in fig.16
featured in the Yorkshire Evening Press
( 20 September, 1952 ).
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