Tag Archives: CIA

UFOs and balloons: a secret history

Posted on February 17, 2023 by Dr David Clarke

The shoot-down of a Chinese ‘spy balloon’ and three other mysterious objects over North America has kicked off a flurry of renewed media interest in UFOs. But current speculation about the military value of balloons for long-range espionage ignores the … Continue reading →

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The UFO that Never Was?: the Calvine photographs

Posted on July 31, 2021 by Dr David Clarke

Is this blurry image really the ‘most compelling evidence’ for UFOs visiting the UK? Does it show a secret US ‘black project’ operating over Scotland? Or are the Calvine photographs an aerial version of the Loch Ness Monster? After a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Aurora, Black Projects, Britain's X-Files, CIA, Freedom of Information Act, Gulf War, Loch Ness Monster, Ministry of Defence, MoD, Nick Pope, Occam's Razor, Operation Desert Storm, Pentagon, RAF, Scottish Daily Record, The National Archives, TR-3 Black Manta, UAPs, UAV, UFOs, USAF | 3 Comments

How UFOs Conquered the World – without firing a shot

Posted on June 11, 2021 by Dr David Clarke

BBC History Magazine/History Extra published my article that explains how the idea of visitors in mysterious flying objects grew from its origins in the Cold War into the most enduring modern myth. You can read the main feature here (password … Continue reading →

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The Scottish Roswell

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Dr David Clarke

The Sunday Express and Metro have today published a preview of a chapter from How UFOs Conquered the World that exposes the truth behind ‘the Scottish Roswell’. Journalist Mark Branagan says the Ardgay mystery has ‘intrigued UFO hunters since it was … Continue reading →

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‘I have some stuff you might be interested in…’: Edward Snowden and the ultimate secret

Posted on February 23, 2014 by Dr David Clarke

When four years ago Wikileaks published 250,000 US state department cables dating back to the 1960s, a believer in ET visitations asked why, in the great mass of data, there was not one major UFO secret. Soon afterwards, during a … Continue reading →

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U-2 secret history revealed

Posted on August 17, 2013 by Dr David Clarke

News that the CIA has finally ‘officially acknowledged‘ the existence of Area 51 as the base where the U2 spyplane was developed will come as no big surprise to aviation historians. Some of the more far-gone UFOlogists prefer to believe … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Air Ministry, Anthony Eden, Area 51, Chris Pocock, CIA, Defence Intelligence Staff, Freedom of Information Act, George Washinton University, Groom Lake, Hugh Caillard, James Cunningham, Lakenheath-Bentwaters UFO incident, Lionel 'Buster' Crabb, Lockheed, Lt Milton Torres, MI6, MoD UFO files, National Security Archive, Nikita Krushchev, Project Blue Book, RAF, RAF Lakenheath, Third World War 1956, U2 spyplane, UFOs | Leave a comment