1901.09.17 – 1972.08.26 Sir Francis Chichester gained fame as a round-the-world yachtsman.
Lympne, Kent, England, Europe
1997.03.08 [Click images to clarify and enlarge] 03.00 Tories hid Howard’s ‘alien visitation’ by Sebastian Hamilton Westminster Correspondent So there really was something of the night about Michael Howard. The former home secretary was visited by extraterrestrial beings in the run-up to the last election, according to UFO-watchers near his home in Kent. In […]
Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, Europe
1996.12 Elsewhere in the 6,000 pages of files released [by the MOD] are accounts of an encounter between a UFO and an airliner near Glasgow Airport in December 1996. White and red flashing lights were seen by pilots of an aircraft, at the same level [as in the Manchester airport incident] – roughly 7,500 feet. […]
Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, Europe
1995.01.06 British Airways 737 approaching Manchester’s Ringway airport was buzzed by a fast-moving UFO, which hurtled directly towards them before veering off downside of the aircraft. The pilot instinctively dived before calling Air Traffic Control, who told Captain Roger Wills and First Officer Mark Stuart that there were no other aircraft in the area. (Fact […]
England, Wales, Europe
1993.03.31 01.05 Numerous witnesses from western and south Wales and western England reported that between 1.05 and 1.10 am on 31 March, against a clear sky, they saw two brilliant globular objects traveling at speed in a northwest-to-southeasterly direction. The UFOs left long vapor trails and made no sound. Estimates of height varied from 2,000 […]
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, Europe
1990.02.27 [Click image to clarify and enlarge] Enlargement of photograph taken by Peter Woolaway at Bartley Green Reservoir, Birmingham, 27 February 1990. Mr Woolaway has co-operated with the Editor [ie Timothy Good] and Quest International in an endeavour to authenticate the photograph. (The UFO Report 1991, Good)
London, Greater London, England, Europe
1988.01.02 23.50 ‘ELLO UFO! COPS SPY A JELLY IN THE SKY EIGHT policemen stood gaping as the grey-green, pink-blobbed UFO hovered before them. Laugh if you like… but they were convinced by the close encounter over Kensington, West London, as reported in the Mirror yesterday. At Heathrow, officials could find no explanation and logged it […]
Llangernyw, Conwy, Wales, Europe
1984.04 The area inland from Rhyl and in the hills around Denbigh and Mold has triggered countless strange encounters – notably an incident in April 1984 when the military invaded the hilly village of Llangernyw in Clwyd, after locals saw a purple, oval mass drop to earth in the night. (UFOs and How to See […]
Cairnhill, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Europe
1971.12.13 18.00 First experience It is a little difficult to capture my thoughts at the time of the first sighting. I was only thirteen years old at the time and had been returning home late from piano lessons at school. The school was Mackie Academy in Stonehaven… It would have been around six o’clock at […]
Cammachmore, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Europe
1968 An investigator in the early 1990s from BUFORA put an advert in a local paper calling for witnesses. Several came forward. One witness surprisingly turned out to be a friend of my mother’s who had seen with her whole family a classic “flying saucer” near Cammachmore in 1968. This was three years earlier than […]