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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.

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“UFO Files”8 pages

  • p. 3 An edited extract from The UFO Files First published in 2009 by The National Archives Kew…
  • p. 5 …This book is largely based upon the real-life accounts of UFO experiences recorded in files…
  • p. 14 …of UFOs before 1962 had been routinely shredded. Today all that remains in the files at…
  • p. 17 …design based on flying saucers 61; link between UFO sightings and experimental military 132–4, 136…
  • p. 19 …UFOs 80; public stance that UFOs were of ‘no defence significance’ 106, 139; releasing of files…
  • p. 20 …large object sightings over Alps 29–30; sighting of foo-fighters 23–5, 27–8; UFO…
  • p. 21 …Vulcan crew: UFO encounter by 89–90, AB W Waddington, RAF 89 Wales: UFO sightings in…
  • p. 22 …1952 ‘ The UFO Files tells the story of over 100 years of UFO sightings, drawing on…
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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