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Top 10 UFO sightings: from Roswell to a pub in Berkshire

Top 10 UFO sightings: from Roswell to a pub in Berkshire 1

As the MoD releases its final UFO files, here are the world’s most famous sightings of alien spaceships – sorry, we mean unidentified flying objects. Keep watching the skies

1 Roswell, 1947

The Roswell Incident

Alien autopsy? A still from the documentary The Roswell Incident Photograph: Channel 4Conspiracy theorists claimed the US military had captured a crashed alien aircraft, but “The Man” maintained it had merely recovered debris from a top secret surveillance balloon. Ask Ant & Dec – they made a film about it: 2006 flop Alien Autopsy.

2 Belgian wave, 1989-90

The Belgian UFO wave from 29 November 1989 to April 1990.

A sighting from the Belgian UFO wave (29 November 1989 to April 1990).Over five months, 13,500 people claimed to have witnessed large, silent, low-flying black triangles, and around 2,600 of them filed written statements. Sceptics blame helicopters or mass delusions caused by eating chips with mayonnaise.

3 Westall encounter, 1966

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JarEi97OsAU?enablejsapi=1&version=3]More than 200 students and teachers at two Melbourne schools saw a flying saucer descend into a grass field, then ascend over a local suburb. There are no pictures, but witnesses still gather for reunions. Some of them are probably “spunks”. Others are “dags” who can “rack off”.

4 Kenneth Arnold case, 1947

Kenneth Arnold

Pilots EJ Smith, Kenneth Arnold, and Ralph E Stevens look at a photo of a UFO that they spotted in Washington. Photograph: Bettmann/CorbisThe press first coined the term “flying saucer” after this Idaho pilot claimed he had seen a string of nine shiny, saucer-shaped objects flying at supersonic speeds near Mount Rainier, Washington. What’s the frequency, Kenneth?

5 Bracknell pub pair, 2013

UFOs – flying discs – spotted in the sky over in Bracknell in 2013.

UFOs – flying discs – spotted in the sky over in Bracknell in 2013.Earlier this month, two glowing discs were photographed hovering near Bracknell, Berkshire – in the skies above a pub, spotted by a drinker in the beer garden. Hopefully he stared at the label on his bottle afterwards, like in the films.

6 Ronald Reagan, 1974

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9ZoKfYCNlM?enablejsapi=1&version=3]Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Regan both claim to have seen UFOs. Carter was widely mocked for his 1973 sighting, but the man who eventually succeeded him in the White House also saw a mysterious object – in 1974 above Petersfield, California. Probably wisely, the wily old cowboy kept pretty quiet about it.

7 Levelland case, 1957

Reports of a UFO sighting in Levelland, Texas in 1957.

Reports of a UFO sighting in Levelland, Texas in 1957. Photograph: guardian.co.ukTexas motorists reported their engines stalling after encountering a glowing, egg-shaped object – and that their vehicles restarted after it flew past. An investigation concluded that it was down to an electrical storm and “ball lightning”.

8 Phoenix lights, 1997

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdIdDpJYSOM?enablejsapi=1&version=3]Several witnesses spotted an “otherworldly” flying V-shaped craft, several city blocks across and with five spherical lights, in the skies over Arizona. Not to be confused with Phoenix Nights, which is a Peter Kay sitcom. Shabba!

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9 Sao Paulo chase, 1986

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaBBdS226Vk?enablejsapi=1&version=3]Twenty UFOs were spotted and detected by radar around Brazil but reportedly disappeared when military aircraft were sent to intercept them. Experts attributed the sighting to debris ejected by Soviet space station Salyut-7. Of course they did. They would. Right, guys? Guys?

10 Tehran incident, 1976

US military report into a sighting of a UFO over Tehran in 1976.

  US military report into a sighting of a UFO over Tehran in 1976.A UFO allegedly whizzed over Iran’s capital, disabling the electronic instrumentation of two F-4 Phantom II jets and jamming ground control equipment. Iranian generals said on record that they thought the object was extra-terrestrial. Don’t tell Melanie Phillips.

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