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26 well-documented UFO/UAP encounters from United Kingdom, 1912 to 2024: 11 unresolved, 8 disputed, 5 explained, 2 identified. Each case has its sources, timeline and the official or best explanation.
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The Sheerness airship — questions in Parliament 14 October 1912 · Sheerness and Queenborough, Isle of Sheppey, Kent DISPUTED Farnborough test pilot’s disc — the Flying Saucer Working Party 14 August 1950 · Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire EXPLAINED RAF Topcliffe disc — Exercise Mainbrace 19 September 1952 · RAF Topcliffe / Dishforth, North Yorkshire UNRESOLVED Little Rissington Meteor encounter 21 October 1952 · Over Gloucestershire from RAF Little Rissington UNRESOLVED West Malling Vampire sighting 3 November 1953 · Over RAF West Malling, Kent DISPUTED Salandin near-miss over Southend 14 October 1954 · Over Southend-on-Sea, Essex UNRESOLVED Lakenheath–Bentwaters radar-visual case 13 August 1956 · RAF Bentwaters & RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk UNRESOLVED West Freugh radar incident 4 April 1957 · RAF West Freugh, near Stranraer, Scotland UNRESOLVED Milton Torres — ordered to fire on a UFO 20 May 1957 · Over East Anglia, from RAF Manston DISPUTED The Solway Firth “spaceman” photograph 23 May 1964 · Burgh Marsh, near Burgh by Sands, Cumberland EXPLAINED Six “flying saucers” across southern England (hoax) 4 September 1967 · A line of six sites from the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, to Clevedon, Somerset IDENTIFIED Devon "flying cross" police chase 24 October 1967 · A3072, Holsworthy to Hatherleigh, Devon EXPLAINED Berwyn Mountains "crash" 23 January 1974 · Cadair Berwyn, North Wales EXPLAINED Broad Haven schoolchildren — the Welsh Triangle 4 February 1977 · Broad Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales DISPUTED Dechmont Law — Robert Taylor 9 November 1979 · Dechmont Law, Livingston, West Lothian UNRESOLVED Todmorden — PC Alan Godfrey 29 November 1980 · Burnley Road, Todmorden, West Yorkshire UNRESOLVED Rendlesham Forest 26 December 1980 · Rendlesham Forest, outside RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk DISPUTED Ilkley Moor photograph 1 December 1987 · Ilkley Moor, West Yorkshire, England DISPUTED Calvine photograph 4 August 1990 · Moors above Calvine, Perthshire UNRESOLVED Alitalia MD-80 near miss over Kent 21 April 1991 · Near Lydd, Kent, England UNRESOLVED Crop circles — Doug Bower and Dave Chorley own up 9 September 1991 · The fields of Hampshire and Wiltshire; their first circles near Cheesefoot Head, Winchester IDENTIFIED Cosford incident 30 March 1993 · RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury, Shropshire DISPUTED British Airways 5061 near miss over the Pennines 6 January 1995 · About 8 nautical miles south-east of Manchester Airport UNRESOLVED The Wash incident 5 October 1996 · The Wash, Lincolnshire coast EXPLAINED Howden Moor — sonic booms and the search for a crash 24 March 1997 · Howden Moors, Dark Peak, on the Derbyshire–South Yorkshire border DISPUTED Drones over the U.S. air bases in England 20 November 2024 · RAF Lakenheath, Mildenhall, Feltwell and Fairford, England UNRESOLVED
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