British UFO Sightings

In the US, stories of crashed flying saucers and alien bodies being recovered from the wreckage are ten a penny. In the UK, however, they’re much more rare. In fact, only one has ever gained much ...

Why is the US government so determined to prosecute British computer hacker Gary McKinnon? McKinnon was searching for evidence that the US government had suppressed the truth about UFOs. Did he ...

Did you know that the British government had its very own "X-Files"? Yes, the Ministry of Defence has a "UFO desk" and maintains secret files on the UFO phenomenon. We know this because one of the ...

In the late 1990s, the British government commissioned a secret study into UFOs in an attempt to discover whether they represented any threat to the UK. Learn more about the report, its methodology ...

In one night of March 1993 there was an extraordinary wave of UFO sightings across South-Western Britain. So remarkable were the reports, and so credible were the eye-witnesses involved, that the ...

In 1979 a Livingston forest worker came across an alien spaceship which had landed in Derchmont Woods. Before he could investigate further, he found himself attacked by something that emerged from ...

One of Britain's strangest UFO flaps occurred on the Welsh coast in 1977. It has been known by various names, including the Dyfed Enigma, the Welsh Triangle case, or the Broad Haven UFO. The story ...

The small Scottish town of Bonnybridge (pop. 6,000) not far from Edinburgh, bills itself the UFO capital of the world. According to its colourful local councillor, Billy Buchanan, almost half of the ...

In 1950, in the midst of a spate of UFO sightings being reported in the popular press, the British government convened a committee to investigate the phenomenon. It was called the Flying Saucer ...

Pilots are often reluctant to talk about UFO sightings for fear of losing their jobs. But when two plane crews and a whole lot of passengers saw a UFO in the sky off Guernsey, word just had to get ...

Did you know that Prince Philip was a "UFO nut"? The Queen's eccentric consort, it seems, has a long-standing interest in UFOs. He subscribes to the Flying Saucer Review and sent his personal equerry ...

One of the most memorable episodes in the British UFO experience centred on Warminster in Wiltshire. A town with a strong military presence thanks to the nearby Salisbury Plain army training grounds, ...