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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.

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  • p. 6 …14 RAF test pilot Stan Hubbard, whose 1950 sighting triggered a secret investigation by the MoD.
  • p. 7 …to 900 mph.’ Hubbard immediately reported this sighting to his commanding officer and soon afterwards received…
  • p. 8 …In its sum- mary of Hubbard’s initial sighting the report said there was no doubt…
  • p. 9 …In America more than 500 sightings were reported to the United States Air Force in July…
  • p. 10 …FIg.15 Following a ‘flap’ of UFO sightings over Washington DC, British Prime MinisterWinston Churchill asked…
  • p. 11 …unexpected turn when a fresh series of sightings occurred during a major NATO exercise in Europe…
  • p. 12 …Shaken, Swiney abandoned the training flight and reported the sighting to ground control. The objects, stationary…
  • p. 13 …logbook, which reads: “saucers! … 3 ‘flying saucers’ sighted at height, confirmed by GCI radar.”’20 On…
  • p. 14 …which simply records how the two men ‘sighted three mysterious “saucer-shaped objects” travelling at high…
  • p. 17 …design based on flying saucers 61; link between UFO sightings and experimental military 132–4, 136…
  • p. 18 …41; first opinion poll on 36; first sightings of over North America 33–4; origin of…
  • p. 19 …UFO sighting (1952) 48–50, >9 London: ‘phantom airship’ sightings over (1916) 16–17 Lott, Alan…
  • p. 20 …large object sightings over Alps 29–30; sighting of foo-fighters 23–5, 27–8; UFO…
  • p. 21 intelligence interest in 145; filming of 77–8, @A, 96; naural phenomena and sightings 46, 51…
  • p. 22 …story of over 100 years of UFO sightings, drawing on formerly secret government records at the…
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