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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.

  • p. 4 …UFOs 56 FOUR CLOSE ENCOUNTERS 79 FIVE CROP CIRCLES AND ALIEN ABDUCTIONS 102 SIX TURN OF…
  • p. 18 …Contact International 96 Contact UK >> corn circles see crop circles Cosford, RAF 120, 135 Cosmos @=B…
  • p. 19 …5; creation of unified (1964 ) 70; and crop circles 112–13, 115; dealing with and investigating…
  • p. 20 …Graham 127 Shuttlewood, Arthur 90 Silbury Hill, crop circles 113 ‘Silent Vulcans’ 136 Simon, Dr Benjamin…
  • p. 21 …crop circles at 112 Whitworth,Wing Commander Peter 53 Widdecombe-in-the-Moor (Dartmoor) 19 Will…
  • p. 22 …abductions and close encounters, ghost aircraft and crop circles, and UFO reports by civilian aircrew and…
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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