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• Air Ministry Organisation · 19 stories

  Britain's Air Ministry turns up again and again in the archive's RAF cases.

• Royal Aircraft Establishment Organisation · 3 stories

  Farnborough.

• UK Airprox Board Organisation · 3 stories

  Britain's Ministry of Defence no longer investigates UFOs.

• David Clarke Person · 66 stories

  A folklorist and senior lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, Dr David Clarke advised The National Archives on the Ministry of Defence UFO files released from 2008 to 2013.

• The National Archives Organisation · 59 stories

  Kew is home to the files.

• Nick Redfern Person · 17 stories

  An author who returns again and again to British cases, often working from official files.

• Civil Aviation Authority Organisation · 12 stories

  Britain's Civil Aviation Authority turns up in the archive whenever a pilot reports something that should not have been there.

• Carabinieri Organisation · 9 stories

  Italy's Carabinieri appear in these cases as the officers who arrived, measured and took statements.

• CEFORA Organisation · 7 stories

  An Argentine research group with a long reach into the country's archives.

• Aurora Craft · 6 stories

  A rumoured spy plane, whispered about but never shown.

• Daily Express Organisation · 6 stories

  A national newspaper that keeps turning up when a strange story breaks out of the local press.

• Redfern Person · 5 stories

  An author and researcher, Nick Redfern returns again and again to British cases.

Documents131 · see all

• SHAEF passes Air Ministry assessment to First Tactical Air Force Report
  Project 1947 (AFHRA/NARA)· 1945-03-18· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
  • p. 1 …The Air Ministry view is that a few of the alleged aircraft may have been Me.262's and for…
• UFO research guide Document
  The National Archives· 13 pages· 10 pages mention it
  • p. 2 …The RAF began to collect reports of „night phenomena‟ from 1942 and later in the war, the Air Ministry shared…
  • p. 5 …The outstanding 10 percent of 'unexplained' sightings remained UFOs (or, as the Air Ministry preferred, 'insufficient information'). This explains the…
• UFO research guide, August 2011 Document
  The National Archives· 2011-08· 15 pages· 10 pages mention it
  • p. 2 …The RAF began to collect reports of ‘night phenomena’ from 1942 and later in the war, the Air Ministry shared…
  • p. 5 …The outstanding 10 percent of 'unexplained' sightings remained UFOs (or, as the Air Ministry preferred, 'insufficient information'). This explains the…
• MOD UFO records response Document
  Ministry of Defence· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
  • p. 1 …Objects 1973-74) and AIR 2/18874 (Unidentified Flying Objects 1974-75). All of the Ministry of Defence records about…
• UFO files briefing guide Document
  The National Archives· 15 pages· 11 pages mention it
  • p. 2 …The RAF began to collect reports of „night phenomena‟ from 1942 and, later in the war the Air Ministry shared…
  • p. 5 …The outstanding 10 percent of 'unexplained' sightings remained UFOs (or, as the Air Ministry preferred, 'insufficient information'). This explains the…
• Unidentified Flying Objects research guide Document
  The National Archives· 15 pages· 11 pages mention it
  • p. 2 …The RAF began to collect reports of ‘night phenomena’ from 1942 and later in the war, the Air Ministry shared…
  • p. 5 …The outstanding 10 percent of 'unexplained' sightings remained UFOs (or, as the Air Ministry preferred, 'insufficient information'). This explains the…

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