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  • 1905.0000 Welsh lights

     

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    Welsh lights

    Britain: “Welsh lights” (commonly referred to as “the Egryn lights”) reported during 1905. Commonly linked to the Welsh Methodist revival of that year and the preacher Mrs Mary Jones.

     

     

     

  • 1915.0821 Vanished Battalion

     

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    Vanished Battalion

    Britain: Alleged abduction/disappearance at Gallipoli of the 1/5 Norfolks battalion of the British 163rd Brigade on 21 August 1915. (Commonly referred to as “the Vanished Battallion incident” or “the Vanished Norfolks hoax”). Linked by a few authors to UFOs.

     

     

     

  • 1952.1218 Chadwell on British activity

     

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    Chadwell on British activity
    On 18 December 1952, H Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of the CIA’s OSI, prepared a memorandum for the record entitled “British Activity in the field of ‘Unidentified Flying Objects’” which refers to a British “standing committee created about sixteen months ago on flying saucers”.

     

     

     

  • 1953.1000 British Flying Saucer Bureau

     

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    British Flying Saucer Bureau
    During October 1953, the “British Flying Saucer Bureau” was founded by Edgar L Plunkett.

     

     

  • 1978.1231 British UFOs and Cosmos 1068

     

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    British UFOs and Cosmos 1068
    On 31 December 1978, there were UFO sightings across Britain. The re-entry of Russian satellite Cosmos 1068 occurred on same night.

     

     

     

  • 1980.1227 Rendlesham Forest incident

     

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    Rendlesham Forest incident

    Charles Halt and others were involved in a sighting in Rendlesham Forest during the night of 27-28th December 1980.

    There had been a separate incident in Rendlesham Forest involving Burroughs, Penniston and Cabansag early in the morning on 26th December 1980.

    This incident is Case 18 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 89 of the books covered by that article.

    This incident came first in an online poll conducted in March/April 2006 by Paul Kimball of “the UFO case with the ‘best evidence’ ever”.

    This incident featured as the third best incident in a documentary produced by Paul Kimball entitled “Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Cases”, purportedly based on the results of a survey conducted by Paul Kimball in 2005/2006 of “a select group of the world’s leading UFO researchers”.

    This incident featured in a document (“the Rockefeller Briefing Document”) endorsed by Dr Mark Rodeghier (President of CUFOS), Richard Hall (Chairman of FUFOR) and Walter Andrus (President of MUFON) as containing “the best available evidence for the existence of UFOs”.

    As part of a survey by the Fortean Times in 2007 of various researchers of the ten cases from 1947 onwards that interested them the most, British ufologist Nick Pope described this incident as “probably the world’s most significant UFO case”.

    As part of the same survey by the Fortean Times in 2007 of the ten cases from 1947 onwards that interested them the most, this incident featured in lists of cases produced by:

    • Stanton Friedman
    • jointly by British ufologists Dave Clarke and Andy Roberts
    • British ufologist Jenny Randles
    • British ufologist Gary Heseltine

     

  • 1983.1002 "News of the World" on Rendlesham

     

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    "News of the World" on Rendlesham

    On 2 October 1983, the “News of the World” newspaper publishes a story about the Rendlesham sightings on its front page, entitled “UFO Lands in Suffolk : And that’s official”.

     

     

     

  • 1987.0000 Gallup poll in Britain

     

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    Gallup poll in Britain
    During 1987, a Gallup Poll in Britain includes questions on UFOs.

     

     

     

  • 1996.0400 “Britain’s Secret UFO Files”

     

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    “Britain’s Secret UFO Files”
    During April 1996, the BBC broadcasts “Britain’s Secret UFO Files”, written and presented by Jenny Randles.

     

     

     

  • Chapman, Robert “UFO : Flying Saucers Over Britain?”

     

    Brief review to be added of Robert Chapman's book “UFO : Flying Saucers Over Britain?” (also published as “Unidentified Flying Objects”) (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Randles, Jenny and Warrington, Peter “UFOs : A British Viewpoint”

     

    Brief review to be added of “UFOs : A British Viewpoint” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) by Jenny Randles and Peter Warrington.