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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.

CHAPTER TWO ‘There may be flying saucers and there may not
be. But this was something I have never seen before.’
Sunday Dispatch, 21 September 1952
THE FLYING
SAUCER AGEAN EXTRACT
T his is an edited extract from Chapter 2 of The UFO Files
by David Clarke, published September 2009 by The
National Archives. This book is largely based upon the
real-life accounts of UFO experiences recorded in files collected
by Britain’s Ministry of Defence ( MoD ), many of which are today
held by The National Archives, based in Kew, Richmond. Where
applicable, National Archives document references are given in
the text; original documents can be searched on the Catalogue at
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue and viewed online at
DocumentsOnline ( www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline ).
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