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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“Ministry of Defence”5 pages

p. 5 …of UFO experiences recorded in files collected by Britain’s Ministry of Defence ( MoD ), many of…
p. 7 …received a visit from members of the Ministry of Defence’s Flying Saucer Working Party, which…
p. 14 …In his history of UK air defence radar systems, Watching the Skies, Jack Gough says that…
p. 19 …144 MoD (Ministry of Defence) 149; and alien abductions 118–19, 124; believing of UFOs by…
p. 22 …UFO material recently released by the Ministry of Defence. He is an experienced journalist, contributing to…

THE UFO
FILESTHE INSIDE STORY OF REAL-LIFE SIGHTINGS
DAVID CLARKE

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The Calvine UFO Photograph 1990

Cases discussed

The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap 1952
On 19 and 20 July 1952, strange moving blips appeared on radars at Washington's National Airport
The RAF Topcliffe "Perfect Flying Saucer" During Exercise Mainbrace 1952
circular silver object above the airfield at RAF Topcliffe... 19 September 1952

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