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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.
“RAF”14 pages
- p. 6 …A G E 4 3
FIg.14 RAF test pilot
Stan Hubbard, whose
1950 sighting triggered…
- p. 7 …On this occasion
he was standing with five other serving RAF airmen on the watch-tower…
- p. 8 …had swelled to more than a dozen RAF personnel. ‘They were
awestruck,’ Hubbard recalls, ‘but not…
- p. 11 …circular silver object above the airfield at
RAF Topcliffe, NorthYorkshire, on the afternoon of 19 September…
- p. 12 …A sighting of
a ‘flying saucer’ by RAF
Shackleton aircrew
inYorkshire during
a NATO exercise
made…
- p. 13 …extract from
the Operations Record
Book of RAF Little
Rissington that includes
a sighting of ‘three…
- p. 14 …Unexplained phenomena had been tracked on RAF radars early in the Sec-
ond World War (see…
- p. 15 …Selected RAF radar stations around the east coast
were asked to send film from their radar…
- p. 16 …This was
brought home to me during a visit to a busy RAF radar control centre…
- p. 17 …Walter 57
Bentine, Michael 25, 28
Bentwaters, RAF 64, 103, 108
Berkner, Dr Lloyd 57
Berlitz…
- p. 18 …Watching the Skies 51
Greene, Francis 78
Greenham Common, RAF 106
Grigg Committee (1957) 9
H…
- p. 19 …17
McDonald, Air Vice Marshal Bill
54
Machrihanish, RAF 136
Manston, RAF 67
Mantell, Captain Thomas…
- p. 20 …67–8
Trefgarne, Lord David 109
Trimingham, RAF 52
Truman, President Harry 46
Tudor, Rear-Admiral…
- p. 21 …UFO panic
(1952) 46, 57
Wattisham, RAF 120–1
Watton, RAF 108
Waycott, Clifford 73
Weeden…
BOOK CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 7
ONE STRANGE LIGHTS IN THE SKIES 11
TWO THE FLYING SAUCER AGE 32
THREE COLD WAR UFOs 56
FOUR CLOSE ENCOUNTERS 79
FIVE CROP CIRCLES AND ALIEN ABDUCTIONS 102
SIX TURN OF THE CENTURY UFOs 125
AFTERWORD 148
NOTES ON THE TEXT 152
RESOURCES 154
INDEX 156
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 160
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