RAF test pilots reveal their close encounters with UFOs
UFOs – or UAP – are a worldwide phenomenon. Since 2017 when new testimony from US Navy aircrew first emerged media attention has been focused on North America. But British military pilots have reported close encounters with ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’ since 1916.
During my research for the UK National Archives UFO project (2008-2013) I interviewed 25 retired and serving aircrew who served with the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm. All had reported encounters with ‘aerial phenomena’ between 1944 to 1966, when such things were known as flying saucers or UFOs. An even larger number were ground based personnel who tracked anomalous phenomena on radar.
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