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LocationCityLondon is the UK capital, where the Ministry of Defence's UFO desk worked until 2008 and where The National Archives at Kew holds and released the ministry's UFO files.
London is the UK capital, where the Ministry of Defence's UFO desk worked until 2008 and where The National Archives at Kew holds and released the ministry's UFO files.
London is the capital of the United Kingdom and the seat of its government, and it was long the centre of official British handling of UFO reports. The Ministry of Defence has its headquarters in the Main Building on Whitehall, and in its final years the small UFO desk worked there, within the Directorate of Air Staff, until it moved to RAF High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire in December 2008. Its surviving UFO files are now held at The National Archives at Kew; until 1967 the ministry destroyed such files every five years, so much of the early record is lost.
Parliament at Westminster staged one of the set pieces of British UFO history on 18 January 1979, when the Earl of Clancarty opened a House of Lords debate calling for an intra-governmental study of UFOs. Replying for the government, Lord Strabolgi said there were generally "straightforward explanations" for the phenomena and that nothing in the reports the ministry examined had given cause to believe they represented alien spacecraft. "There is no cover-up and no security ban," he said, explaining that the files stayed confidential because they held letters from members of the public whose identities could not be disclosed.
Those files reached the public between 2008 and 2013, when about 210 records, some 60,000 pages, were released in ten tranches, including reports from London and the rest of England. The final tranche, covering the desk's last two years, logs a report of UFOs hovering opposite the Houses of Parliament in February 2008 and a national surge in sightings in 2008 and 2009 that the files tie in large part to Chinese lanterns. A November 2009 briefing told defence minister Bob Ainsworth that in more than 50 years no reported sighting had revealed "anything to suggest an extra-terrestrial presence or military threat to the UK," and the ministry closed its UFO hotline that December. London also produced a long legal case with a UFO motive. Gary McKinnon, from Wood Green in north London, admitted accessing US government computers but said he had been looking for evidence of UFOs, and the home secretary blocked his extradition to the United States in 2012 on health grounds.
In late February 2026 McKinnon retold his account in an interview with podcaster Jesse Michels. The city's place in the UAP record is largely administrative: it is where the British state received, assessed and eventually stopped investigating sighting reports, and where the archive documenting that work is kept.
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In 1895 and 1896, J. H. Evans, the recurring sitter referred to in contemporary material as Mr. Starling, worked with London spirit photographer Richard Boursnell on a numbered series of photographs titled Photographs of the Invisible. The series extended to at least No. 57. Among the surviving photographs is No. 57. Its original reverse label titled the image “A grand Astronomical Picture from the Spirit-world.” The reverse of the photograph identified two entities visible in the image and l...
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