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The Flying Saucer Working Party

Whitehall, London

A secret committee, and a Prime Minister asking what it was all about.

When the flying saucer craze reached Britain in 1950, the government set up a secret committee, the Flying Saucer Working Party, at the urging of the chief scientific adviser Sir Henry Tizard. It concluded that sightings had ordinary explanations.

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When
1950–1951
Where
51.5030, -0.1260
Group
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Whitehall and the old War Office buildings, central London.

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UFO Cases of Britain

Fifty-four real and closely examined British UFO cases, weighed with honesty rather than hype. From Rendlesham Forest, the best-documented UFO case the United Kingdom has ever produced, to the Berwyn Mountains, the Broad Haven schoolchildren, the Calvine photograph and the Bonnybridge hotspot, each case sets out what was seen, who saw it and what the explanations are.

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