There have been many reports of "unidentified flying objects" in the skies over the UK. The files on this page represent a selection of the UK government UFO files held at The National Archives.
Select the links below to download the files.
Files released in October 2008
- DEFE 24/1926/1 (30.2 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1927/1 (213.7 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1928/1 (37.6 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1929/1 (62.7 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1930/1 (61.4 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1931/1 (38.4 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1939/1 (48.1 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1940/1 (14.6 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1941/1 (29.9 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1942/1 (37.5 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1943/1 (5.1 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1949/1 (34.3 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1951/1 (26.2 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1952/1 (25.9 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1953/1 (24.8 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1954/1 (20.6 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1955/1 (36.8 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1956/1 (26.3 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1957/1 (26.7 Mb)
- Videocast
- DEFE 31/172/1 - UFO incidents (14.6 Mb)
- DEFE 31/173/1 - UFO incidents (45.7 Mb)
- DEFE 31/174/1 - UFO incidents (22.6 Mb)
- DEFE 31/175/1 - UFO incidents (15.3 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1922/1 - UFO reports (13.8 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1923/1 - UFO reports (32.7 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1924/1 - UFO reports (43.2 Mb)
- DEFE 24/1925/1 - UFO reports (51.7 Mb)
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"What does all this
stuff about flying
saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the
truth?" Sir Winston Churchill
- July 1952
(Catalogue reference PREM 11/855)
SOURCE: National Archives
