9 July 1947
The Guardian reports on probably the most famous UFO incident of all time: Roswell in New Mexico.
14 November 1979
UFOs force Spanish pilot to land. “The objects followed me down, 12,000ft in 30 seconds. I have never heard of a plane capable of doing that.”
25 January 1985
In 1981, a group of American airmen were confronted one night with an alien spaceship in Rendlesham Forest which surrounds the airforce base. They said the craft came down over the trees and landed in a blinding explosion of light.
4 April 1995
Strange lights in the sky have always fascinated people but only since the 1950s have flying saucers really taken off. Martin Bright writes about the history of alien life.
13 August 1995
As the UFO Research Association is about to host its eighth Congress, the Observer’s John Sweeney reveals his personal experience of seeing an unidentified flying object.
5 May 2002
Cold War hysteria sparked UFO obsession, study finds. British researchers say the widespread belief in UFOs that began in the 1950s and lasted until the present day should be seen as a social phenomenon.
22 April 2006
Whatever happened to UFOs? It would appear that public interest in UFOs has waned significantly since the 1970s film Close Encounters of the Third Kind suggested we are not alone.
14 May 2008
Following a flood of FOI requests, the National Archives lift the lid on Britain’s X-Files covering 1978 to 1987. The files consist of a variety of documents, including numerous individual sightings, accounts of investigations and briefings prepared by MoD staff for ministers on the subject.
18 February 2010
UFO sightings from the National Archives.
4 August 2010
UFO files from National Archive allow believers to revisit ‘Welsh Roswell.’
21 June 2013
Alien nation: MoD releases final UFO files.
22 July 2014
Hanging out at a UFO convention in New Jersey, USA - video.
30 September 2017
Slides uncovered in an Arizona home seemed to unlock the Roswell incident, a riddle that has baffled UFO enthusiasts for years. But was it all too good to be true?
17 December 2017
The Pentagon admits running secret UFO investigation for five years. A task force that investigated sightings of unidentified flying objects ran from 2007 to 2012 with an annual budget of $22m.
