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What you might call the primary source material for this fascinating subject.

Spotted between 1989 and 1991, these include a flying saucer landing in Wiltshire, wartime Amazons from the Sirius system, an extra-terrestrial breakdown in Somerset aided by the perfect English of the occupants – and the rather more serious and widely-reported near-miss involving an Alitalia airliner over Kent, not to mention the four passengers on board a Dan Air Boeing 737 who saw a "wingless projectile" pass beneath the aircraft as it climbed from Gatwick Airport headed for Hamburg.

According to this story, "Documents also relate how a Tina Turner concert triggered a spate of UFO sightings in London in 1989, and how one person was 'contacted by aliens" descended from "legendary feathered serpents from ancient Peru'". Nice to know that the truth is out there…

At The Indy we get details of sightings from 1986 to 1992, including a US Air Force pilot's account of being ordered to shoot down a UFO that appeared on his radar as he flew over East Anglia, MoD telling Army and Navy helicopter pilots not to photograph crop circles for fear of undermining the official line that it did not investigate unexplained phenomena and a letter from a woman claiming to be from the Sirius system who said her spacecraft, containing two "Spectrans" with "Mr Spock ears", crashed in Britain during the Second World War.

In its report on this story the BBC focuses on how a passenger jet bound for Heathrow Airport apparently had a near miss with a UFO. Includes a video package on the subject.