Tag Archives: UFOs

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 | Leave a 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

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 | Leave a comment

Katharine Briggs award shortlist

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Dr David Clarke

My book How UFOs Conquered the World: the history of a modern myth was shortlisted by The Folklore Society for the Katharine Briggs book award for folklore scholarship in 2015. The judges described the book as ‘a lucid account based on 30+ years of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Aurum Press, Black Magic and Bogeymen, fairy tale, folk legend, folklore, How UFOs Conquered the World, Katharine Briggs, Marina Warner, myth, Professor Richard Jenkins, Psycho Social Hypothesis, The Folklore Society, UFOs | Leave a comment

The Warminster Syndrome

Posted on August 29, 2015 by Dr David Clarke

It is 50 years since the Wiltshire town of Warminster, 15 miles west of Stonehenge, first became a centre of pilgrimage for British UFO watchers. As flying saucerers gather for a convention and skywatch to mark the anniversary of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arthur Shuttlewood, British UFO Research Association, BUFORA, Cradle Hill, Dr Who, History of a Mystery, How UFOs Conquered the World, In Alien Heat, John Ries, ley-lines, Loch Ness Monster, New Age, Salisbury Plain, Steve Dewey, The Thing from Another World, The Warminster Journal, The Warminster Mystery, The Warminster Thing, UFOs, Warminster | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: UFOs

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

Alien Art: 70 years of UFO sightings

Michael Swiney (1926-2016)

The Warminster Syndrome

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