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Yorkshire UFO crash mystery solved – after 60 years

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Dr David Clarke

THE wreckage of a miniature UFO that ‘crash landed’ on the North York Moors sixty years ago has been found – hidden in the archives of a London museum. The story has been claimed by some as Britain’s answer to … Continue reading →

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Tears for Fears – the Curse of the Crying Boy

Posted on January 2, 2018 by Dr David Clarke

The ‘curse of the Crying Boy‘ legend, created by the British tabloid The Sun, is alive and well online. I discuss my research into this fake news phenomenon on the first episode in Season 3 of the Folklore Podcast, (1 January … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged curse of the crying boy, Ebay, Fake News, Gumtree, Halloween, Kelvin McKenzie, Max Clifford, Rotherham, Rotherham Star, Silly Season, The Sun, urban legends | 1 Comment

COLLECTING SPACE ARCHIVES

Posted on November 23, 2017 by Dr David Clarke

The plot of Blade Runner 2049 refers to a ‘black out’ that plunged the world into darkness for ten days. During this cataclysm many historical records, hard drives and important data that was not written down on paper was destroyed. Blade … Continue reading →

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Close Encounters of the Playground Kind

Posted on September 13, 2017 by Dr David Clarke

My latest book UFO Drawings from The National Archives is published by Four Corners books on 18 September. It contains 40 colour and black and white images selected from the Ministry of Defence files at the archives in Kew. From … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged BBC, British UFO Files, Broad Haven primary school, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Doctor Who, flying saucers, Ministry of Defence, MoD UFO desk, Star Wars, steven spielberg, The National Archives, The Robots of Death, Tom Baker, UFO Drawings at The National Archives, UFOs, Welsh triangle | 4 Comments

The UFO Files: Our Man in Sheffield

Posted on July 2, 2017 by Dr David Clarke

I spent two decades on the trail of the UK Ministry of Defence’s cache of secret UFO papers. But little did I know that my FOI campaign triggered off a mole-hunt among the spooks – and a probe to discover … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Condign report, Defence Intelligence Staff, DI55, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, Graham Greene, Ministry of Defence, The National Archives, UAPs, UFO files, UFOs, unidentified aerial phenomena, University of Sheffield | 5 Comments

UFO Files exclusive: Cold War spyplane incident

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Dr David Clarke

The release by Britain’s Ministry of Defence of 15 of its last remaining UFO files at the UK’s National Archives has revealed details of a stunning Cold War close encounter witnessed by the entire crew of a US Air Force spy-plane. Formerly secret … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Beano 73, Cold War, Cyprus, DI55, HQ NO 18 Group RAF, Ministry of Defence, MoD UFO desk, Olympic radar, Project Blue Book, RAF Fylingdales, RAF Phantom, RAF Troodos, RC-135, The National Archives, UAP, UFO files, UFOs, US Department of Defense, US Navy | 15 Comments

Alien Art: 70 years of UFO sightings

Posted on June 23, 2017 by Dr David Clarke

70 years ago Kenneth Arnold reported nine strange ‘saucer-like’ flying objects in the sky – and launched the modern UFO mystery. On landing his plane in Oregon on the afternoon of 24 June 1947 the businessman and private pilot became world … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 24 June 1947, Carl Jung, flying saucers, Four Corners books, Kenneth Arnold, Kew, Ministry of Defence, MoD UFO desk, myth, The National Archives, UFO Drawings at The National Archives, UFO files, UFOs, Winston Churchill | Leave a comment

Dead Flows the Don

Posted on March 30, 2017 by Dr David Clarke

Dr David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University appeared on a BBC Radio 3 documentary about the River Don. In the Sheffield Telegraph he traces the myths and legends of the river as it flows through Sheffield: One of my earliest … Continue reading →

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100 years of Fake News: The German Corpse Factory

Posted on February 17, 2017 by Dr David Clarke

False stories that masquerade as real news are not a product of the modern age. But few realise the modern era of ‘Fake News‘ began one hundred years ago – during the carnage of the First World War. In the … Continue reading →

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Where Eagles Dare…and the Sun never sets

Posted on May 21, 2016 by Dr David Clarke

Sheffield Star/South Yorkshire Times, 21 May 2016. David Clarke took a cruise along Norway’s rugged coastline to see the Midnight Sun and experienced Arctic wildlife at close quarters. ‘We can never guarantee that you will see them’, one of our … Continue reading →

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