Tag Archives: UFOs

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 | 1 Comment

Six Months, Five Podcasts

Posted on July 29, 2018 by Dr David Clarke

During the past six months I have contributed to five Fortean-themed podcasts reflecting the range of my UFO and legend-related research interests. Brian J Robb who curates the monthly Sounds Peculiar round-up in the excellent Fortean Times magazine says that podcasting … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Brian J Robb, crying boy, Dr Jill Tarter, Dr Seth Shostak, FOIA, folklore, Folklore Podcast, Fortean phenomena, Fortean Times, Freedom of Information, Gimlet media, John Burroughs, LBC radio, Linda Moulton Howe, Mark Norman, Ministry of Defence, Nick Margerrison, Phenomena, podcasts, Professor Jim Al Khalili, Rendlesham forest UFOs, Science Vs, Slenderman, Sounds Peculiar, The curse of the crying boy, The National Archives, UFO files, UFOs, urban legends, Wendy Zuckerman | Leave a comment

Black Projects, UFOs and the mysterious MO D-Notice

Posted on June 16, 2018 by Dr David Clarke

Has the Ministry of Defence ever suppressed media stories about Black Project aircraft operating secretly over the British Isles? For many years conspiracy-minded aviation writers and UFOlogists have claimed the government has, on occasions, used its contacts in the Press … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Astra, Aurora, Black Projects, Calvine incident, Calvine UFO, Condign report, D-Notice, DA Notice, DA-Notice committee, Daily Record (Glasgow), Defence and Security Media Advisory Committee, Defence Intelligence Staff, DI55, DPBAC, DSMA notices, Freedom of Information Act, Jacob Ecclestone, JARIC, Ministry of Defence, MoD, National Union of Journalists, NUJ, Owen Hartop, RAF Boscombe Down, SR-71 Blackbird, TR-3 Black Manta, UAPs, UFOs, unidentified aerial phenomena | 4 Comments

Why Britain’s MoD closed the UFO files: exclusive new evidence

Posted on May 6, 2018 by Dr David Clarke

Newly-released British intelligence files reveal the hidden agenda behind the MoD’s decision to close down their 50 year investigation of UFOs. The last three UFO files produced by the UK’s defence intelligence branch DI55 were originally with-held from the records earmarked … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged AATIP, Adam Ingram MP, Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, atmospheric plasmas, Condign project, D-Notice, DI55, ETOs, extraterrestrial objects, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, GCHQ, GEC-Marconi, Ministry of Defence, NATO, Nick Pope, Norman Baker MP, Occam's Razor, Old War Office building, Pentagon, secrecy, Secretariat (Air Staff) 2A, Star Wars, The National Archives, UAP, UAPs in the UK Air Defence Region, UFO desk, UFOs, UK Eyes Only, unidentified aerial phenomena, unidentified flying objects, Winston Churchill | 3 Comments

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

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Blade Runner 2049, British rocketry archive, Cassini-Huygens probe, Dana Centre, Doug Millard, Dr Amy Chambers, Dr James Peters, Dr Tom Lean, Enceladus, Herschel family, Jodrell Bank, Ministry of Defence, MoD UFO files, National Life Stories, Professor Michele Dougherty, Royal Astronomical Society, satellites, Saturn, Science and Technology Archives Group, Science Museum, Sian Prosser, Sir Arthur C Clarke, Sir Bernard Lovell, Sir Patrick Moore, Skylark rocket, Sputnik, STAG, Stanley Kubrik, The British Library, The National Archives, The Planet of the Apes, UFOs, University of Newcastle | 1 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

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 | 4 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 | 13 Comments

Tag Archives: UFOs

Churchill’s Secret War

Six Months, Five Podcasts

Black Projects, UFOs and the mysterious MO D-Notice

Why Britain’s MoD closed the UFO files: exclusive new evidence

Top 10 UFO documents at The National Archives

Yorkshire UFO crash mystery solved – after 60 years

COLLECTING SPACE ARCHIVES

Close Encounters of the Playground Kind

The UFO Files: Our Man in Sheffield

UFO Files exclusive: Cold War spyplane incident

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