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Churchill’s Secret War

Posted on October 14, 2018 by Dr David Clarke

Winston Churchill’s interest in strange phenomena and UFOs makes the cover story in the November 2018 issue of Fortean Times magazine. Top Secret War chronicles the British Prime Minister’s curiosity about a range of unexplained phenomena during his long career … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Air Ministry, flying saucers, Fortean Times, Helen Duncan, Major Wellesley Tudor Pole, Richard Nixon, The National Archives, UFOs, University of Cambridge, Winston Churchill, witchcraft, WW2 | Leave a comment

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

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

Michael Swiney (1926-2016)

Posted on October 18, 2016 by Dr David Clarke

Retired Royal Air Force officer Michael Swiney, who observed three UFOs while flying a training mission in 1952, has died aged 90. Swiney’s close encounter occurred shortly after a wave of unexplained sightings during the NATO operation Mainbrace. According to Captain Ed … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Air Commodore, Air Marshal Sir Peter Horsley, Air Ministry, Captain Ed Ruppelt, Duke of Edinburgh, flying saucers, Meteor T7, Michael Swiney, Ministry of Defence, MoD, NATO, Operation Mainbrace, Out of the Shadows, Project Blue Book, RAF, RAF Little Rissington, The National Archives, The UFO Files, UFOs | 1 Comment

UFOs Conquer The World

Posted on May 17, 2015 by Dr David Clarke

My new book How UFOs Conquered the World was published on 14 May and is reviewed by The Sunday Times here. In his review James McConnachie says UFO believers will not like this book, ‘it is not a classic debunking. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Andrew May, Andy Owens, Brian Clegg, British UFO Research Association, BUFORA, Carl Jung, Daily Mail, David Clarke, Ezekiel, flying saucers, folklore, How UFOs Conquered the World, James McConnachie, Jenny Randles, John Pilger, Jon Ronson, Louis Theroux, Magonia, Magonia Review of Books, Marcus Berkmann, myth, Peter Rogerson, Popular Science, Star Wars, Sunday Times, the UFO syndrome, UFO myth, UFOs | Leave a comment

How UFOs Conquered the World

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Dr David Clarke

How UFOs Conquered the World: The History of a Modern Myth, will be published in hardback by Aurum Press on 14 May 2015. It is the story of the long, strange trip that I began almost forty years ago when I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alien abductions, Aurum Press, close encounters, flying saucers, How UFOs Conquered the World, Kenneth Arnold, Men in Black, Ministry of Defence, myth, UFO desk, UFOs | 14 Comments

UFOs and the mythical ‘acclimatisation programme’

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Dr David Clarke

Every so often the release of archive documents throws up another gem from the bygone era when flying saucers really were taken seriously by world governments. The most recent turned up in a collection of papers produced by Irish diplomats … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged acclimatisation programme, Anthony Eden, CIA, Colin Powell, Disclosure project, Donald Keyhoe, flying saucers, Guinness Book of Records, H.G.Wells, Kenneth Arnold, Leonard C. Lewin, literary hoaxes, Lou Cannon, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mirage Men, MJ-12 hoax, National Archives of Ireland, operation Majestic 12, Professor Robert Segal, ronald reagan, Roswell incident, Royal Irsih Academy, Stanton Friedman, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Flying Saucers are Real, The Report from Iron Mountain, The War of the Worlds, UFO cover-up, UFO myth, UFOs, USAF | 5 Comments

Saucery in Pop Culture

Posted on June 12, 2014 by Dr David Clarke

NASA’s preparations to test a saucer-shaped spacecraft have placed the iconic ‘flying saucer‘ back into the popular consciousness. In a BBC Magazine feature journalist Jon Kelly explores how the saucer ‘has served as visual shorthand for the gleaming, jet-propelled, post-war … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged BBC, BBC Magazine, British Railways Board, Derek Dempster, flying saucer pub, flying saucers, Futuro house, Gillingham, John Frost, Jon Kelly, Matti Suuronen, NASA, Project Y, The Day the Earth Stood Still | 1 Comment

The Will Smith Effect

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Dr David Clarke

Despite all the claims about ‘the death of UFOlogy’, the never-ending stream of movies and satellite TV shows, such as Chasing UFOs and UFOs: The Untold Stories prove the idea of UFOs and alien visitations is more alive than ever. And the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged After Earth, Chasing UFOs, David Clarke, death of UFOlogy, flying saucers, Independent Day, ITV, M. Night Shyamalan, Mark Lankester, OnePoll, popular culture, The Guardian, The Will Smith Effect, This Morning, UFO flaps, UFOs, UFOs and Hollywood, UFOs: The Untold Stories, Will Smith, Yahoo News | 2 Comments

Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012): astronomer and flying-saucerer

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Dr David Clarke

The death of Sir Patrick Moore, at the age of 89, is a sad loss to astronomy and for all those who grew up with his iconic BBC programme The Sky at Night. Patrick will be remembered for bringing astronomy … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged BBC, Cedric Allingham, Desmond Leslie, Flying Saucer from Mars, flying saucers, George Adamski, Michael Bentine, Radio Times, Sir Arthur C Clarke, Sir Bernard Lovell, Sir Patrick Moore, The Sky at Night, UFOs | 9 Comments

Tag Archives: flying saucers

Churchill’s Secret War

Close Encounters of the Playground Kind

Alien Art: 70 years of UFO sightings

Michael Swiney (1926-2016)

UFOs Conquer The World

How UFOs Conquered the World

UFOs and the mythical ‘acclimatisation programme’

Saucery in Pop Culture

The Will Smith Effect

Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012): astronomer and flying-saucerer

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