UFO cases

60 places across Britain and Ireland

• Berwyn MountainLlandderfel, Gwynedd · A bang, a tremor and lights on a Welsh mountainside started a crash legend.
• BonnybridgeNear Falkirk, Stirlingshire · The Falkirk Triangle, where hundreds of sightings are reported every year.
• Boscombe DownNear Amesbury, Wiltshire · Rumours of a secret aircraft crash, hidden under tarpaulins.
• Britain's First Flying SaucerRAF Tangmere, West Sussex · A Meteor pilot reports a shining, revolving disc over Portsmouth.
• Broad Haven SchoolBroad Haven, Pembrokeshire · Fourteen schoolchildren see a silver craft land behind their playing field.
• CalvineNear Pitlochry, Perthshire · The best UFO photograph ever taken, hidden away for 32 years.
• Clapham WoodNear Worthing, West Sussex · A wood of UFO lights, strange mists, missing dogs and unsolved deaths.
• Dechmont WoodsLivingston, West Lothian · The only UFO encounter in Britain treated as a criminal assault.
• Lakenheath–BentwatersRAF Lakenheath, Suffolk · Radar, eyewitnesses and a jet in pursuit, all on the same night.
• Moigne DownsNear Owermoigne, Dorset · A former airline officer watches a huge craft hover above the downs.
• RAF TopcliffeNear Thirsk, North Yorkshire · RAF crews watch a silver disc follow a jet towards the airfield.
• RAF West FreughNear Stranraer, Wigtownshire · Military radar tracks an object hanging still, then racing away.
• Rendlesham ForestNear Woodbridge, Suffolk · Britain's Roswell: US airmen chase strange lights through a forest.
• Ripperston FarmNear Broad Haven, Pembrokeshire · A farming family reports silver-suited figures at the window.
• The A70 IncidentNear Harthill, West Lothian · Two men drive into a mist and lose an hour of their lives.
• The Alderney SightingOff Alderney, Channel Islands · An airline captain watches two huge yellow objects hang over the sea.
• The Alfred Burtoo EncounterBasingstoke Canal, Aldershot · A 77-year-old angler is taken aboard a craft, then rejected as too old.
• The Alien Autopsy FilmLondon · A grainy film of an alien autopsy that fooled the world for a decade.
• The Aveley AbductionAveley, Essex · A family drives into a green mist and arrives home hours late.
• The Bexleyheath SaucerBexleyheath, London · Around thirty people watch a saucer hover over a suburban street.
• The Boulmer Radar SightingRAF Boulmer, Northumberland · RAF personnel watch bright objects over the North Sea.
• The Brixham Coastguard SightingBerry Head, Devon · Coastguards watch a huge object hang over the town for an hour.
• The Charlton CraterCharlton, near Pewsey, Wiltshire · A mysterious crater in a potato field that the Army came to investigate.
• The Conisholme Wind TurbineConisholme, Lincolnshire · A shattered wind turbine, and lights in the sky the night before.
• The Coniston SaucerOld Man of Coniston, Cumbria · A schoolboy's photo of a flying saucer over a Lake District mountain.
• The Cononley Moor SightingA629 near Skipton, North Yorkshire · A police sergeant watches a glowing disc glide over his patrol car.
• The Cosford IncidentRAF Shawbury, Shropshire · A huge triangle crosses two RAF bases, and the Ministry of Defence takes note.
• The Cumbrian SpacemanBurgh Marsh, Cumbria · A family photo on the marsh shows a figure in a white spacesuit.
• The Devon Flying CrossNear Holsworthy, Devon · Two police officers chase a glowing cross at 90 miles an hour.
• The Disappearance of Foxtrot 94RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire · A fighter pilot chases an unknown radar contact and never returns.
• The Farnborough DiscusRoyal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough · A test pilot sees a disc making impossible turns over the airfield.
• The Flying Saucer Working PartyWhitehall, London · A secret committee, and a Prime Minister asking what it was all about.
• The Fylingdales Radar MysteryRAF Fylingdales, North York Moors · A missile early-warning radar tracks a target it cannot identify.
• The Gatwick SaucerNear Handcross, West Sussex · A disc passes within feet of an airliner approaching Gatwick.
• The Glossop and Hindley Police SightingsGlossop, Derbyshire · Police in two towns see a light swinging like a pendulum.
• The Great Flying Saucer HoaxFarnborough, Hampshire · Six fake flying saucers set police and the military chasing across England.
• The Haven Fort HotelLittle Haven, Pembrokeshire · A hotel owner sees a landed craft and tall figures in the night.
• The Home Counties Police SightingsArkesden, Essex · Police officers across the south file report after report.
• The Howden Moors IncidentUpper Derwent, Peak District · A huge rescue hunt for a crash that left no wreckage.
• The Hubberston School SightingMilford Haven, Pembrokeshire · On the same day as Broad Haven, another school sees a cigar in the sky.
• The Ilkley Moor AlienIlkley Moor, West Yorkshire · A former policeman photographs a small green figure on the moor.
• The Kirkcaldy DiamondKirkcaldy, Fife · A silent diamond of light vanishes like a switched-off lamp.
• The Little Rissington IncidentRAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire · An RAF flying instructor breaks through cloud into three flying saucers.
• The Longdendale LightsBleaklow, Peak District · Strange lights drifting over a valley full of air-crash wrecks.
• The Longhill Park LandingLonghill, Hull · Children watch a silver egg land, and police find burn marks.
• The Manston Shoot-Down OrderRAF Manston, Kent · An American pilot is ordered to fire his rockets at a UFO.
• The Pentyrch IncidentPentyrch, near Cardiff · A pyramid of lights drops towards fields below Garth Mountain.
• The Phantom AirshipsPeterborough, Cambridgeshire · Mysterious airships with searchlights are seen across East Anglia.
• The Ranton EncounterVicarage Farm, Ranton, Staffordshire · A mother and her sons see two figures watching from a domed craft.
• The Scoriton MysteryScoriton, Devon · A Dartmoor handyman says he spoke to an alien called Yamski.
• The Sheerness AirshipSheerness, Kent · An unknown airship circles a naval base, and Parliament wants answers.
• The Silpho Moor SaucerNear Scarborough, North Yorkshire · A small metal saucer lands on the moor, packed with strange writing.
• The Southampton Officer's EncounterSouthampton, Hampshire · A constable is frozen to the spot by a craft the size of a bus.
• The Stanmore Police SightingStanmore, London · Police called to strange lights end up watching them themselves.
• The Upton Priory SchoolchildrenMacclesfield, Cheshire · Ten children see an object in the trees, then draw it separately.
• The Walnut Tree Pub SightingNear Tunbridge Wells, Kent · Customers leaving the pub see a craft with red and green lights.
• The Waterloo Bridge SightingWaterloo Bridge, London · A silver disc with portholes drops from the sky above city traffic.
• The Winchester EncounterChilcomb, Hampshire · A car cuts out on a lane, and a figure in a silver suit looks in.
• TodmordenCalder Valley, West Yorkshire · A policeman, a hovering craft and twenty minutes he can't account for.
• WarminsterCradle Hill, Wiltshire · The town that became Britain's UFO capital, all because of The Thing.