Tag Archives: Roswell

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged CIA, flying saucers, Moby Dick balloon, RAF, Roswell, spy balloons, U2 spyplane, UFOs, USAF | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Air Ministry, Anthony Parker, archives, Britain's Roswell, Broxa Forest, Cold War, Frank Dickenson, hieroglyphics, IRA, Jenny Randles, Lord Dowding, Manchester University, Ministry of Defence, North York Moors, North Yorkshire, Philip Longbottom, Roswell, Scarborough, Scarborough Evening News, Sheffield Hallam University, Silpho Moor, Silpho Moor Object, Silpho Saucer, Sputnik, The National Archives, The Natural History Museum, The Science Museum, The X-Files, UFO crash, UFOs, Ullo, Yorkshire Post | 1 Comment

Roswell slides ‘mystery’ debunked

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Dr David Clarke

The so-called ‘Roswell slides‘ have been exposed as having nothing to do with aliens and everything to do with the will to believe that underpins the UFO syndrome. What Nick Redfern calls ‘the biggest soap opera since Dallas‘ came crashing … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alien autopsy, Mexico City, Nick Redfern, Roswell, Roswell slides, Roswell Slides Research Group | Leave a comment

Sliding towards Roswell

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Dr David Clarke

The Roswell incident is UFOlogy’s Holy Grail and the industry that has grown up around it never sleeps. On Tuesday, 5 May the world may, or may not, be rocked to its foundations when the showmen behind the latest chapter … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Dew, alien autopsy, Bernard Ray, Bing Crosby, Clark Gable, General Eisenhower, Hilda Blair Ray, Jaime Maussan, Mexico City, New Mexico, Ray Santili, Robert Hastings, Roswell, Roswell incident, Roswell slides, Stanton Friedman, Top secret | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Air Ministry, Ardgay incident, Britain's X-Files, CIA, Cold War, Dr David Clarke, How UFOs Conquered the World, Moby Dick balloons, Pentagon, RAF, Roswell, Russia, Scottish Roswell, spy balloons, The National Archives, Top secret, UFO crashes | Leave a comment

‘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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boutros Boutros-Ghali, CIA, Daniel Ellsberg, Disclosure, Edward Snowden, Fars news agency, FSB, Iran, Julian Assange, Lord Hill Norton, Max Fisher, MJ-12 hoax, Nazi aliens, New York Times, Nordic blondes, NSA, Paradigm Research Group, Paul Hellyer, Richard Tomlinson, Roswell, Sorcha Faal, Stephen Bassett, Tall Whites, The Guardian, The Pentagon Papers, The Snowden Files, The Washington Post, UFOs, whatdoesitmean.com, Wikileaks | 25 Comments

Mirage Men premiers at DocFest

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Dr David Clarke

Sheffield’s annual DocFest is one of the highlights of the year for documentary film-makers and investigative journalists. 2013 marks the festival’s 20th anniversary and many of the movers and shakers from the industry will be gathering at venues in the city centre, based in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged British Sea Power, Daily Telegraph, DocFest, From the sea to the land beyond, Jarvis Cocker, John Lunberg, Library Theatre, Mark Kermode, Mirage Men, Paul Bennewitz, psychic spies, Richard Doty, Roswell, Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, Sheffield Hallam University, Showroom cinema, The Big Melt, UFO myth, Uri Geller | Leave a comment

UFOlogy: Dead Again?

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Dr David Clarke

On 4 November The Sunday Telegraph posed the question that has been asked many times before: What is the point of UFOlogy (the ‘study of UFOs’). “Having failed to establish any evidence for the existence of extraterrestrial life, Britain’s UFO watchers are … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Andrew May, ASSAP, Association for the Study of Anomalous Phenomena, BBC, BUFORA, Exopolitics, Jasper Copping, Jon Kelly, Rendlesham, Roswell, Sunday Telegraph, UFOs, University of Worcester | 28 Comments

The Scottish Roswell?

Posted on July 29, 2012 by Dr David Clarke

Picture the scene: A shepherd visiting a remote area stumbles upon strange wreckage strewn across the ground which could be the remains of a crashed spaceship. The debris consists of pieces of unusual metal and strange drawings. On reporting his find … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ardgay, BBC, Cuban missile crisis, David 'Heavy' Whalley, Frank Card, Jack Baines, Keith Bryers, Moby Dick balloons, Project 119L, RAF Kinloss, RAF Kinloss Mountain Rescue Team, RNAS Evanton, Roswell, Scotland, Sputnik, spy balloons, The National Archives, U2 spyplane, William 'Mac' Brazel | 1 Comment

FBI ‘not interested’ in UFOs, shock revelation

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Dr David Clarke

“News organizations across the world were taken in — once again — by a hoax that was perpetrated more than 50 years ago….” Jesse Emspak, International Business Times The silly season has arrived early this year. Either that or news … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Aztec UFO crash, Ben Radford, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Daniel Webster, FBI, Frank Scully, J. Edgar Hoover, New Mexico, Paratopia, Roswell, Silas Newton, The Sun | 2 Comments