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The National Archives AIR 2\/18961.\u00a0Painting of a UFO spotted on 18 January 1975, near Birmingham. Later identified as satellites Zond 4 and Cosmos 460.<\/p><\/div>\n

With\u00a0its origins in the aftermath of World War II, belief in extraterrestrial visitations has grown into one of the most widespread and persistent of modern mysteries. As one measure of its impact on British society, a 1998 opinion survey for the Daily Mail <\/i>found that one third of the UK\u2019s population believed that \u201cextraterrestrial life has already visited Earth.\u201d Of these, 2 percent (1.26 million people) claim to have seen a UFO or had direct experience of alien visitation. <\/span><\/p>\n

In conspiracy culture, stories circulate telling of UFO crashes, government cover-ups, and secret agreements between the U.S. military and alien intelligences. In the UK some believe the Ministry of Defense (MoD) operate a \u201csecret army against the aliens\u201d and employ special agents\u2014the legendary Men in Black or MIB\u2014to silence witnesses and remove hard evidence of UFO visitations. But in 2007, after decades of stonewalling questions about its UFO investigations, the MoD announced that it had decided to proactively release all its surviving files. This was, it said, to counter \u201cthe maze of rumor and frequently ill-informed speculation\u201d that surrounded their role in this subject. In recognition of the fact that there was <\/i>public interest in the content of their archives, thousands of pages of formerly secret documents were scanned and uploaded to the Internet. Only a small amount of information was \u201credacted\u201d to remove names and addresses of people who had reported sightings and, occasionally, secret information that might harm national security if released. These are some examples of what was contained in those\u00a0files, sent in by citizens to report their sightings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The National Archives DEFE 24\/1983\/1.\u00a0The \u201cSolway Spaceman\u201d photograph taken by Jim Templeton in Cumbria, May 1964.<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the most mysterious images in the MoD files is a color photograph of a little girl, holding a bunch of flowers as a space-suited figure looms behind her head. The photograph was taken by a Carlisle fireman, Jim Templeton, of his five-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, on a family day out in May 1964. Jim and his family saw nothing unusual at the time, as they enjoyed the wild scenery of Burgh Marsh, in northern Cumbria. But when he collected the processed film the shop assistant said, \u201cThat\u2019s a marvelous photograph, but it\u2019s rather spoilt by the big man behind her!\u201d When Jim took a closer look he was amazed to find that on one of the prints, standing just behind his daughter\u2019s head, was a large figure dressed like an astronaut in a white suit with a dark visor. Jim sent the negatives for scrutiny to Kodak and the Cumbrian police. Both said the image had not been tampered with. After the story was featured in the Cumberland News<\/i>, <\/i>Jim\u2019s photograph was republished in newspapers as far away as Australia. Hundreds of letters arrived from across the world at the Templeton household, many offering esoteric explanations for the \u201cSolway Spaceman.\u201d Jim was also visited by two mysterious men dressed in black suits and bowler hats, who drove a brand new black Jaguar and asked to see where the photograph was taken. They referred to each other by numbers and said they were from \u201cthe Ministry.\u201d But the surviving RAF and MoD files that mention the \u201cSolway Spaceman\u201d do not provide any clues to the identity of the strange figure in the photograph. Over the years, the case became a cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bres\u00a0<\/i>in UFOlogy and the image has been featured in many TV programs, books, and articles. Jim died in 2011 at the age of\u00a0ninety-one\u00a0with the mystery unsolved. His last words on the subject were \u201cIt is up to you to draw your own conclusions. I am sure someone out there knows what it was and where it was from.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The National Archives DEFE 24\/1206.\u00a0One of a group of drawings of a UFO seen by school children at Upton Priory Junior School, in Macclesfield, October 1977.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The National Archives DEFE 24\/1206.\u00a0One of a group of drawings of a UFO seen by school children at Upton Priory Junior School, in Macclesfield, October 1977.<\/p><\/div>\n

The release of the science-fiction film Star Wars <\/i>in 1977 coincided with a wave of UFO sightings across the UK. So many reports were made in West Wales that tabloids began to refer to part of the Pembrokeshire coast as \u201cthe Broad Haven Triangle,\u201d after the notorious Bermuda Triangle. One spectacular sighting was reported in February by a group of ten- and eleven-year-old children at Broad Haven Primary School who told their teachers a flying saucer had landed in the playground at lunchtime. Some of the boys said they had spotted a tall man dressed in a silver spacesuit standing beside the UFO. Then one afternoon in October, ten Cheshire children, aged seven to eleven, saw an elliptical object hovering in trees beside the playground of Upton Priory Junior School in Macclesfield, before it rose and vanished. Their teacher asked them to draw what they had seen, separating them to ensure that no copying took place. The children used pencils and colored crayons to produce the images. Their teacher passed the drawings to PC Jones of Cheshire Police, who sent them to Air Traffic Control at Preston and the MoD. He said, \u201cThere is a remarkable similarity in these sketches with regard to the UFO and its location between two trees.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The National Archives DEFE 24\/1206 Pen sketch of a UFO leaving Saturn en route to Earth, June 26, 1977<\/p><\/div>\n

Some people see UFOs more than once and believe they are in telepathic contact with the pilots of these \u201ccraft.\u201d In 1977, a correspondent from Stockport in Cheshire sent a series of letters to the UFO desk telling of his sightings of flying saucers from Saturn. He enclosed a pen sketch of one UFO leaving the ringed planet en route to Earth. \u201cAt approx. 1 am on June 26 I observed [a] UFO hovering low above and near to flats in which I live,\u201d he explained. \u201cI observed the UFO from inside the flat \u2026 This object was blacked out except for a flashing spark-like white light. I intercepted the UFO using telepathy, upon doing so the [it] took immediate evasive action. I have reason to believe the object to be Soviet, although the UFO did acknowledge telepathic transmission by transmitting ring type mental picture similar to those used by UFOs identified as Drep spacecraft\u2014indicating [a] UFO from planet Saturn.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The National Archives DEFE24\/1513.\u00a0UFO seen in North Yorkshire, October 15, 1981.<\/p><\/div>\n

A motorist from Leeds, Yorkshire, sent this sketch attached to a letter: \u201cAt about 2.45 on the morning of October 15 I was driving south along the A1 near RAF Leeming when what I can only describe as a UFO nearly landed on the A1 just in front of me. As I was driving I had noticed a red light in the sky getting nearer and nearer very quickly. At first I thought it must be a plane but as it got closer I was startled to see what appeared to be a flying parallelogram with red and white lights set diagonally. I then saw two white lights as it tilted \u2026 I dipped my headlights, it just hovered [and] getting a bit startled, I put the car headlights on, it very slowly veered to its right, my left, directly overhead at very low height and vanished in a field behind some trees.\u201d The driver heard no noise and was certain it was not a plane, glider, or balloon. Wing Commander Barrett of RAF Leeming checked and found there was no military aircraft flying in the vicinity of Leeming at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The National Archives DEFE24\/1999.\u00a0Drawing of a UFO producing a crop circle, November 1998.<\/p><\/div>\n

This drawing of a UFO producing a crop circle was sent to Secretariat Air Staff 2 (the UFO desk) in November 1998 from a correspondent in Oxfordshire. His letter said, \u201cI have developed contact with these craft and their energy forces but unfortunately the designs I am perceiving are too complex for me to draw\u00a0\u2026 these include anti-gravitational fields that allow the craft to access time.\u201d In her response the desk officer, Kerry Philpott, said, \u201cThere is no evidence to suggest that crop circles are caused by anything of military concern and the MoD does not, therefore, investigate reported sightings or carry out any research into them.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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The National Archives DEFE24\/1967.\u00a0UFOs seen near Smethwick, September 1954.<\/p><\/div>\n

A letter from Warley, West Midlands, addressed to the MoD, dated June 9, 1994: \u201cOver the past 40 years I have sighted many UFOs all of which I have found both interesting and puzzling\u00a0\u2026 Of course over this period of time I have formed an opinion as to the origin of [these] objects.\u201d The letter was accompanied by two drawings, one depicting an object sighted over Smethwick in August 1954 that \u201cappeared to be all of one piece as if cast instead of built.\u201d The letter added, \u201cThere are others including ball of light objects, one of which gave a fantastic display of speed\u00a0\u2026 but for now I would be obliged if you would study my reports and let me have an answer.\u201d In appearance it resembles the flying saucer \u201cscoutship\u201d photographed by the Polish-American contactee George Adamski, who claimed to have taken trips to Venus and Saturn as a guest of friendly, angelic aliens in 1952. Images of the Venusian scoutship first appeared in his best-selling 1953 book Flying Saucers Have Landed<\/i>, cowritten with Desmond Leslie.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. David Clarke is Reader and Principal Lecturer in Journalism at\u00a0Sheffield Hallam University. His research interests include investigative\u00a0journalism, contemporary legends and rumors. Since 2008 he has worked\u00a0with The National Archives during the release of UFO files created by the\u00a0Ministry of Defense.<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpted from\u00a0<\/em>UFO Drawings From The National Archive<\/a>\u00a0by David Clarke. Copyright\u00a0\u00a9 2018 by David Clarke. Published by arrangement with Four Corners Books UK.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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