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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. 8 …for some time over a populous area, could have failed to attract the attention of other…
p. 9 …At the same time, civilian aircrew and ground controllers reported seeing strange lights whilst the phenom…
p. 14 …the Vice Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Ralph Cochrane, at the time…
p. 15 …At the time the few ornithologists who were using radar to study bird movements had problems…
p. 16 …the presence of smaller birds and other clutter from radar screens whilst at the same time…
p. 18 …Watching the Skies 51 Greene, Francis 78 Greenham Common, RAF 106 Grigg Committee (1957) 9 H…
p. 19 …The German Air Raids on Great Britain 16 Mountbatten, Lord 41, 47 ‘Mowing Devil,The’ 110…

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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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