The UFO Files: The Inside Story of Real-life Sightings

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A&C Black, Sep 15, 2009 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 160 pages

'What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?' Winston Churchill, Prime Minister's personal minute, 29 July1952

Original records newly released by the Ministry of Defence and now held at The National Archives in Kew reveal how British Intelligence and the CIA investigated many Cold War sightings, from the Roswell incident of 1947 to ghost aircraft, Radar Angels to the RAF's confidential files. The UFO Files sheds new light on many famous cases, such as RAF Topcliffe, 1952; the Flying Cross in Devon, 1967; RAF West Freugh, Scotland, 1957; and, the Berwyn Mountains UFO crash and the Phantom Forest incident. Dramatic witness statements and personal interviews - many undertaken by David Clarke himself - combine with rarely seen photographs, drawings and newly available documents to offer a unique guide to our most intriguing mysteries.

 

Contents

1 Strange Lights in the Skies
1
2 The Flying Saucer Age
28
3 Cold War UFOs
55
4 Close Encounters
81
5 Crop Circles and Alien Abductions
105
6 TurnoftheCentury UFOs
132
7 Closing the UFO Files
156
Afterword
181
Appendix
186
Notes and references
188
Resources
199
Index
203
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About the author (2009)

Dr David Clarke is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University. He has a long standing interest in UFOs and other aerial phenomena, and has worked with The National Archives in promoting UFO material recently released by the Ministry of Defence. He is an experienced journalist, contributing to the Yorkshire Post, and other newspapers and magazines including BBC History, as well as acting as researcher and consultant to a range of TV and radio programmes including Radio 4 and BBC2's Timewatch series. He is the author of The Angel of Mons (Wiley, 2004).

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