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The National Archives issued this UFO research briefing guide, written by Dr David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University in March 2008 and revised in August 2011. It traces British government interest in UFOs from the 1909 phantom airships and wartime foo fighters through the 1951 Flying Saucer Working Party, Air Ministry and MoD investigations, and the 1979 House of Lords debate. It lists key files held at Kew, including Rendlesham Forest papers, plus suggestions for further reading.
14 Publications • Brookesmith, Peter. UFO – The government files. London: Blandford, 1996 • Bruni, Georgina. You Can't Tell the People. London: Pan/Macmillan, 2001 • Clancarty, Lord with Michell, John. The House of Lords UFO Debate. London: Open Head Press, 1979. • Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy. Phantoms of the Sky: UFOs A Modern Myth? London: Robert Hale, 1990 • Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy. Out of the Shadows: UFOs, the Establishment and the official cover-up. London: Piatkus, 2002 • Clarke, David. The UFO Files: The Inside Story of Real Life Sightings. London: The National Archives, 2009 (due for release, September 2009). • Coates, Tim (editor). UFOs in the House of Lords 1979. London: HMSO, 2000 • Fawcett, Lawrence and Greenwood, Barry J. Clear Intent: The government cover-up of the UFO experience. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1984 • Gillmor, Daniel S. (ed). The Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects. : London: Vision, 1969 • Good, Timothy. Above Top Secret. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987 • Gough, Jack. Watching the Skies: The history of ground radar in the air defence of the United Kingdom. London: HMSO, 1993 • Jones, R.V. Most Secret War. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979 • Pope, Nick. Open Skies, Closed Minds. London: Simon & Schuster, 1996 • Rundles, Jenny. The UFO Conspiracy. London: Blandford, 1987 • Randles, Jenny. UFO Retrievals: The Recovery of Alien Spacecraft. London: Blandford, 1995 • Randles, Jenny. MIB: Investigating the truth behind the Men in Black phenomenon. London: Piatkus, 1997 • Randles, Jenny. Something in the Air. London: Hale, 1998 • Randles, Jenny. UFO Crash Landing? Blandford, 1998 • Redfern, Nicholas. A Covert Agenda: The British Government's UFO top secrets exposed. London: Simon & Schuster, 1997 • Redfern, Nicholas. The FBI Files. London: Simon & Schuster 1998 • Redfern, Nicholas. Cosmic Crashes. London: Simon & Schuster, 1999 • Ruppelt, Edward J. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects. London: Gollancz, 1957 • Twigge, Steven with Hampshire, Edward and Macklin, Graham. British Intelligence: Secrets, Spies and Sources. Kew: The National Archives, 2008 • Letter ‘Opinion on Flying Discs’ sent by Twining to the Brigadier General Schulgen, Commanding General of the Army Air Forces, 23 September 1947, originally classified ‘Secret and declassified in 1969 now at US National Archives, College Park, Maryland, see: http://www.project1947.com/fig/twinng47.htm Articles • Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy. ‘Britain’s X-Files’, Fortean Times 164 (November 2002), 38-44. • Clarke, David. ‘The Rendlesham Forest Incident: Britain’s Roswell?’ The Sceptic 12/2-3 (2004), 17-21. • Clarke, David. ‘Opening the UFO files’ BBC History Magazine vol 6/8 (August 2005), 43-46.
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