London control called us in the winter of 1962 and asked us, would we chase one? … The radar return was very distinct and solid … It kind of lit up in the sky and went off into space. The Disclosure Project 2001, George Filer, US Air Force, 2001
Mysterious unexplained lights in the sky. Tales of strange extraterrestrial beings. This is not just the stuff of science fiction: there are now millions of people in Britain today who genuinely believe it to be real. And that there’s an ongoing monumental conspiracy to keep the truth from us, with shadowy powerful agents pulling the strings behind the scenes. Dan Schreiber, The Great UFO Conspiracy, History 2019
He [Timothy Good] says he was leaked top secret US intelligence documents from the ’50s that exposed a shadowy elite of 12 high ranking military officials. The documents known as the Majestic 12 files allege that extraterrestrials have visited earth and that the US military have covered it up. ibid.
For over fifty years the world has been enthralled by strange tales of alien encounters. Some believe that extraterrestrial visitors are fact, not fiction. And they claim that a secret government conspiracy is hiding this truth from the public. Conspiracy s1e7: UFOs
Did aliens attack a man in a Scottish forest? ibid.
For over seventy years we’ve been gripped by eye-witness accounts of strange sightings and close encounters with what are claimed to be space ships and extraterrestrials from beyond our world. ibid.
April 2007, Suffolk England: Military air traffic controllers at the Lakenheath Air Force base identify a strange anomaly in the nearby airspace. What you are about to hear is the actual exchange between the American pilots recorded by the ham radio operator. UFOs: The Lost Evidence s1e3: Pilots & Astronauts, Discovery 2017
August 1944, World War II: In the early morning lights of daybreak, over the English channel, a Royal Air Force plane is returning to England from a top secret reconnaissance mission over occupied Europe. As the aircraft approaches the English coast the crew report something unusual … The object was metallic and disc-shaped in appearance. UFOs: The Lost Evidence s2e8: UFOs vs The Air Force, Discovery 2018
Are we alone or not in the universe? Are we being visited by extraterrestrials? Are governments involved in a decades-long conspiracy to cover up the truth about an alien presence here on Earth? Indistinguishable from Magic, History 2022
No single individual could speak for planet Earth … No single message. ibid.
9th November 1979 Livingston, Scotland 10.30 a.m.: In a lonely Scottish woodland 61-year-old forestry worker Bob Taylor has an astonishing encounter … ‘In front of him was this massive big dome-shaped object’ ... Smaller balls rolled toward him. This is the only British UFO incident ever investigated by the police as a criminal assault. UFOs: The Untold Stories s1e2, National Geographic 2013
‘The police went to the site and they found a series of mysterious marks on the ground.’ ibid. researcher
They [rozzers] also had a vital piece of tangible evidence under analysis: the torn pants. ibid.
Bob Taylor’s character was never in doubt. ibid.
RAF Little Rissington, England 21st October 1952: Royal Air Force flight lieutenant Michael Sweeney is a highly experienced pilot examiner and trainer … The day he almost runs head-first into three flying saucers … ‘three circular white or off-white objects. UFOs: The Untold Stories s1e4
The UFOs had also been picked up by ground-controlled interception radar. ibid.
One of the UK’s most dramatic UFO cases occurs RAF Binbrook England 8th September 1970: American pilot captain Schaffner flies out over the north sea in search of an unidentified flying object then disappears without trace. UFOs: The Untold Stories s1e6
Captain Schaffner makes visual contact and pushes on to make the interception … They’ve lost all contact with his aircraft. ibid.
His aircraft is later recovered but the body has vanished. ibid.
Cornwall, England 2020: A glowing orb races on to screen, hovers then rockets straight up and out of frame … three thousand feet in less than a second. The Proof is Out There s2e11, History 2022
One case that was a particular turning point for me was the so-called Cosford Incident. Now Cosford is a military base in the United Kingdom … 30th March 1993 there was a wave of sightings over a period of about six hours, and there were many police and military witnesses. Nick Pope, former Ministry of Defence UFO desk
Pitlochry, Scotland: The consensus was clear on this: This was a real object. It was maybe twenty-five, thirty metres in diameter ... We discussed this photograph extensively. This was something that was of defence interest because clearly it could do something we couldn’t. And we wanted that technology. Nick Pope
The 1993 Cosford incident is one of the UK’s biggest unexplained UFO cases to date. The episode began with two reported sightings in Somerset. And the first witness was a policemen who described a craft looking like two Concordes flying side by side. Later that night nearly two hundred miles north of the Somerset sightings, officers at RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury claimed to have seen similar objects flying over their military bases. Shaun Ryder on UFOs III, 2013
In the skies around the town of Falkirk over the last couple of years around 800 UFOs have been sighted. Strange But True? series ITV 1993
Todmorden buried deep between windswept Pennine moorlands, obscure, isolated, and the epicentre of UFO activity in the British Isles. A tenth of sightings are around this town alone ... The town now has its own observatory with telescopes trained on the sky. ibid.
Pentyrch Village, South Wales, 26th February 2016: A vast pyramid-shaped vessel forming over a row of trees. The huge craft was outlined in brilliant bright lights. Then things got even stranger. An aerial armada of military planes and helicopters engaged the UFO in a terrifying battle culminating in its apparent destruction. Craig Charles: UFO Conspiracies s1e1, Sky Showcase 2022
Sixty-foot trees had been snapped in half as far as the eye could see … and a very pungent smell in the air. ibid. witness
November 2018: British Airways flight BAW94 was en route from Montreal, Canada, to London Heathrow … The pilots noticed a strange bright orb streaking across the dawn sky … ‘We saw a bright light and then it disappeared at a very high speed.’ Craig Charles: UFO Conspiracies s1e2
A second witness, A Norwegian airline pilot had also seen something strange. And then a third pilot. ibid.
10% of people claiming to have seen a UFO … UFO hotspots: and there’s one very close to home. Central Scotland has its very own Area 51. The Falkirk Triangle stretching from Stirling to the outskirts of Edinburgh. Craig Charles: UFO Conspiracies s1e5: Scotland, History 2022
One of the best places on the planet to see a UFO. ibid.
A 61-year-old didn’t just see a UFO – he was attacked by it. The incident was so disturbing it was even investigated by British police … 9th November 1979 forestry worker and respected war hero Robert Taylor was checking fences in woodland … A large flying dome hovering above the forest floor … waking up twenty minutes later. ibid.
To his death his story remained consistent. ibid.
Bonnybridge in 1989 glowing objects appeared before a stunned fire crew before speeding across the sky. In January 1993 a couple spotting two larger triangular objects low in the sky … ibid.
January 2020: This recent video footage of a triangular UFO captured on dash cam … The smoking gun? ibid.
We established the true scale of UFO activity within the Falkirk Triangle. ibid.
PC Alan Godfrey, Todmorden, 1980: I was driving up the road when I could see in front of me up here this object. It looked to be completely blocking the road. It was diamond-shaped, the bottom half of the object was spinning, and it was hovering about five foot off the ground; it was about twenty feet wide, fourteen feet high, I just couldn’t contact anybody … Suddenly I was on the other side of the object and it had gone … Half an hour missing. Craig Charles: UFO Conspiracies s1e8: Abductions, History 2022
May 20th 1957, Kent, England: An unusual target on radar. Two pilots are scrambled into the night … In 2008 [Milton] Torres’ testimony is declassified ... ‘We have two radars confirming that this thing went over Mach 10.’ UFOs Declassified s1e4: Shoot Em Down, Channel 5 2015
Manchester 6th January 1995: A 747 is on descent into Manchester airport when a small black wedge-shaped fast-moving object flies within a few metres of the aircraft. UFOs Declassified s1e6: UFOs vs Airliners
Southampton Airport 23rd April 2007: Eight passengers aboard a small commuter plane … ‘a very bright object’ … ‘flat cigar-shaped object’ … ibid.
One of the most amazing encounters with an unidentified flying object takes place in 1957 – it happens at England’s Marston Air Force base and involves US Air Force fighter pilots. Ghost Lights Mystery