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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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“Air Ministry”9 pages

  • p. 7 …It was featureless, and the remarkable thing about it was there was no sound of air…
  • p. 8 …believed the assur- ance given by the Air Ministry member of the team that he ‘had…
  • p. 10 …Minister received a reassuring response from the Air Ministry on 9 August 1952. Preserved alongside Churchill…
  • p. 11 …by military per- sonnel that reached the Air Ministry.There were also a growing number of…
  • p. 12 …FIg.17 Details of the Topcliffe incident were circulated to Air Ministry intelligence in this message…
  • p. 13 …quarters until the following day, when an Air Ministry team arrived to interview them.The team…
  • p. 14 …air traffic control later reported radar plots that appeared to confirm their report ‘but Air Ministry…
  • p. 17 …Air Ministry Secret Intelligence Summary (AMSIS) 60 Air Miss Working Group 131, 132, 142 air misses…
  • p. 19 …17 McDonald, Air Vice Marshal Bill 54 Machrihanish, RAF 136 Manston, RAF 67 Mantell, Captain Thomas…
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