var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true};

The 77-year-old prime minister had good reason to feel inquisitive. It was the height of the Cold War, and the news had been filled by stories of odd lights and entities invading the sky above Washington DC.

By Richard Blackledge The Star 9-28-17

These sightings had re-ignited the ‘flying saucer’ phenomenon that began in earnest following the famous Roswell incident a few years earlier, in which a mysterious airborne disc - later explained away as a weather balloon - was believed to have crashed near a ranch in New Mexico.

The episode opened the floodgates to accounts of unidentified flying objects from the public and military personnel, leading the Government to set up its own ‘UFO desk’, as it became
Read more »

var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true};

Secret dossier is believed to relate to a close encounter
that's often described as the UK's very own 'Roswell' incident

The National Archive has opened up a cache of 15 files from the Ministry of Defence that divulge details of mysterious incidents in British skies.

By Margi Murphy The Sun 6-23-17

They include material relating to an unsolved encounter that’s been likened to the Roswell UFO incident in America.

The incident took place in December 1980, when three military personnel claimed to see flashing bright lights and a triangular shaped object near an RAF base in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk.

An investigation was opened but the mystery remains unsolved.

But alien hunters will have to wait a little longer to find out the truth, thanks to the process that’s been put in place to read these newly released files.

They have not been digitised, so enthusiasts must join a queue to inspect the paper records at the National Archive’s reading room in Kew, West London.
Read more »