Alleged Triangle UFO Caught in Bolivian Thunderstorm (Video)

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This video has been seen now around the world. It is a supposed triangle UFO captured during a storm by an amateur videographer in the town of San Ignacio de Velasco, Bolivia.
The recording is dated from January 17 and the images were filmed in the main square of the town. That day there was an intense electric storm with high winds.
The amateur video caught the silhouette of what was supposed to be a UFO moving through the skies. The UFO appeared after a bright strike of lightning.
At that time began the cries of panicked citizens who witnessed the unknown object and reacted to the intense lightning.
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UFO TV / UFO Secrets of WW2 - President Eisenhower Briefing (Video)

Did President Dwight D. Eisenhower secretly meet with ETs. This detailed research project presents the facts around one of the most enduring "urban legends" of our time and tells the true story of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's ET contact in the early 1950's. Did he meet extraterrestrials face to face? And did he make a top-secret treaty with aliens from another world that would effect our national politics to this day? Could the truth be stranger than fiction? Get the facts about UFO Secrets of World War II. This event if true, may change the way we stare up at the stars for years to come.



Royals & UFOs – Lord Dowding, the spiritualist general (Pt.2)

Antonio Huneeus

May 11, 2011

Lord Hugh Dowding (image credit: RAF)

In a previous article I discussed the subject of British royalty and UFOs, identifying the figure of Lord Louis Mountbatten, last Viceroy of India and uncle to Prince Philip—the Queen’s husband and Duke of Edinburgh—as the royal ufologist for at least a while in the decade of the fifties. Prince Philip has indeed acknowledged his own interest on UFOs was first awoken by his uncle and fellow naval officer. In this second part we shall examine some extraordinary stories and claims made by senior military figures, many of whom had close links to the royal family.
Lord Hugh Dowding (1882-1970) is a famous Air Chief Marshal of the Royal Air Force Fighter Command (RAF) during the crucial period of the Battle of Britain in World War Two. He made important public statements on UFOs in 1954, a year when a flying saucer wave hit Europe hard. Author Colin Bennett has called him “a very great Briton of truly mythological status.” Hugh Caswall Tremenheere, 1st Baron Dowding, was also a well known spiritualist, ghost hunter, vegetarian, and humanitarian, who published several books on psychic phenomena like Many Mansions (1943), Twelve legions of angels (1946), The Dark Star (1951), and God’s magic: An aspect of spiritualism (1960). Despite his eccentric beliefs, Lord Dowding had an impeccable military career and was a key of figure in the Battle of Britain in 1940.
Born in 1882 in Moffat, Scotland, he graduated at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich in 1899, serving in various locations of the British Empire in Asia prior to World War I, when he joined the new Royal Flying Corps and was eventually promoted to Brigadier General. He served in several key RAF positions in the period between the wars and was one of three officers representing the Air Council at the funeral of King George V. In 1936, Dowding was appointed commanding officer of the RAF Fighter Command, where he conceived and oversaw the so-called “Dowding System” for the air defense of Great Britain using the new technology of radar, which the English were just developing for the first time. Quoting from his biographical profile from rafweb.org.

God's Magic book cover

“As Air Member for Research and Development he was in a position to oversee the development of the eight gun fighters (Hurricane and Spitfire), but even more importantly his previous experience in wireless experiments gave him an excellent insight into possibilities of it’s use in the detection of aircraft. He was able to take these preparations to their logical conclusion when given command of the newly formed Fighter Command in July 1936. He immediately set about developing a system able to make best use of his limited resources and it was this system as much as anything that ensured success in 1940. He established the coastal chain of radar stations (then known as RDF), but the success of radar really lay in the reporting and control system he set up which allowed aircraft to be placed in the right place at the right height in time to meet the threat.”
Dowding retired from the RAF in 1942 as he was not skilled in dealing with political maneuvering at the RAF and Churchill’s cabinet—he was nicknamed “Stuffy”—and his public adherence to spiritualism probably also affected his military career. Retired, Dowding could now concentrate on his spiritualist writings and other eccentric activities like being a member of the Fairy Investigation Society and the Ghost Club. When the flying saucer wave hit Europe in 1954, London’s Sunday Dispatch published a long statement on UFOs by the former Air Chief Marshal on July 11, which we quote in part:
“More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any ‘scientific’ explanation, e.g. that they are hallucinations, the effects of light refraction, meteors, wheels falling from aeroplanes, and the like…. They have been tracked on radar screens…and the observed speeds have been as great as 9,000 miles an hour…. I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on earth. I can therefore see no alternative to accepting the theory that they come from some extraterrestrial source…. I think that we must resist the tendency to assume that they all come from the same planet, or that they are actuated by similar motives. It might be that the visitors from one planet wished to help us in our evolution from the basis of a higher level to which they had attained.”

Sir Hugh Dowding (far right) with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, in Bently Priory,Sept. 1940. (image credit: RAF)

The Adamski Factor
You can find further extracts of this famous 1954 Sunday Dispatch article in Tim Good’s Above Top Secret, where he also quoted from a 1957 letter from Lord Dowding to the Italian diplomat and ufological pioneer, Dr. Alberto Perego. “What I am interested in is accounts of intelligible contacts between human beings and the occupants of interplanetary ships,” wrote Lord Dowding in that letter. Not surprisingly, in the late 1950s the air chief marshal took an interest in the UFO contactees that were then causing a lot of excitement and controversy in the press. Colin Bennett reveals in his biography of contactee George Adamski, Looking for Orthon, that Dowding “had been fascinated by Flying Saucers Have Landed [the book co-written by Desmond Leslie and Adamski], and he had arranged for Adamski to give a lecture in Turnbridge Wells on April 21, 1959.” Leslie himself gave a lecture for the local Flying Saucer Club in Turnbridge Wells, a town in west Kent, in 1955, where he was “introduced by the indefatigable Lord Dowding,” writes Bennett.

George Adamski

More about Adamski’s visits to the UK is revealed in an important article by former Ministry of Defence [MoD] official in charge of UFO investigations Nick Pope and journalist Georgina Bruni in an article titled, “UFOs – An Official History.” Pope and Bruni wrote that the Air Chief Marshal “was as outspoken as Mountbatten on the [UFO] issue.” After quoting from the 1954 Sunday Dispatch article, they go on to say that, “we have learned from veteran British ufologist Emily Crewe that when contactee George Adamski visited the UK in 1963, Dowding and Mountbatten met him in London and subsequently took him to Broadlands to see the site of Frederick Briggs’ 1955 UFO sighting.” We discussed this CE-III at length in Part 1, providing the actual documents on the case from Lady Mountbatten’s Broadland Archives.
More on the Adamski 1959 visit is revealed in Flying Saucers: A Social History of Ufology, a book written by Dr. David Clarke, an historian and expert on the MoD UFO files, and skeptical ufologist Andy Roberts. According to this book, an attempt was made during this visit for Adamski to meet none other than Prince Philip himself. The arrangements were made by Desmond Leslie, the Irish eccentric aristocrat (his father was first cousin to Winston Churchill), ufologist, author and musician who was also nicknamed the “royal saucerer” because of his contacts with the palace, and who had also served in WWII as an RAF pilot. The go-between Leslie and the royal family was General Sir Frederick (Boy) Browning, another World War Two veteran who served later as the Queen’s Private Secretary and was therefore close to Prince Philip. Gen. Browning’s connections to the aristocracy included his marriage in 1932 to the famous British author and playright Daphne du Maurier. During the war he was in command of the 1st Airborne Division, which played a key role in Operation Market Garden, an allied airborne operation in the Netherlands in September of 1944. After the war he served as Chief of Staff of Lord Mountbatten in India—a link in the ufological bond—and later as Comptroller and Treasurer to Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) between 1948 and 1952.

Elizabeth II with (from left) Prince Charles, Prince Philip, and Princess Anne. (image credit: Encyclopedia Britannica)

General Browning (image credit: RAF)

The Browning-Leslie plan to arrange a meeting between Adamski and the Duke of Edinburgh, however, fizzled and was eventually cancelled for fear that the news would leak. Nevertheless, the fact that this meeting was even planned at one point is quite startling. Dr. David Clarke told Britain’s Sunday Express that, “this alone shows how far these bizarre ideas had penetrated the upper classes and royalty. There’s no doubt from the documentation we have that Prince Philip would have met Adamski if he felt he could have got away with it.”
Finally, there is the interesting testimony of Lord Dowding regarding the case of the extremely obscure figure of the British contactee Cedric Allingham. Allingham was most likely a copycat story of Adamki’s Venusian contacts transported instead to Mars. The biography of the author was kept extremely brief and mysterious and he was said to have died shortly after the publication of his book, Flying Saucer from Mars in 1954. There is rather strong evidence that the true author was a well known English astronomer and science writer Sir Patrick Moore, who published the spoof Can You Speak Venusian?, in 1973 and, incidentally, also coauthored with Desmond Leslie the parody How Britain Won the Space Race. An analysis of the Moore-Allingham allegation goes well beyond the scope of this article, but nevertheless someone—either a real Cedric Allingham or an impersonator—gave a lecture at the same Flying Saucer Club in Turnbridge Wells sometime in the mid-fifities. According to a letter from Lord Dowding to American researcher Len Stringfield, “we got Mr. Cedric Allingham [...] to lecture to our local Flying Saucer Club, and we were all strongly impressed that he was telling the truth about his actual experiences, although we felt that he might have been mistaken in some of the conclusions which he drew from his interview.”
In the third and last part of this series on the Royals and UFOs, we will continue to examine the links between high-rank generals connected or serving with the royal palace and the subject of aliens.

Exploding UFO Wakes Thousands in SC (Video)

By Tom Rose

A streaking flash of blue light, what many witnesses are calling a UFO, burst over the midnight skies of South Carolina early on Monday morning. What was it? No one really knows, but the object, caught on tape, has astronomers trying to allay fears in a nervous public.

The unidentified flying object was caught on a home security cam, reflected in the window of a parked car, and a nighttime sky camera which showed the UFO blasting through the sky trailed by a flashing tail.

Local astronomers were immediately consulted and tried to allay public fears by saying the OVNI was probably a comet or meteorite, even though such celestial phenomenon are usually well-known and expected by the time an object of this size burns up in the atmosphere.

Still, one local resident, interviewed by the local FOX affiliate in the video below, admits she was scared and wondered for just a moment if it was "aliens" attacking.

Here's the video:

Mac:  It is estimated that up to 10 Tons of rock fall to Earth every day, this looks like a meteor to me.

Eisenhower And The Aliens: Former US President 'Had Three Secret Meetings With Extra Terrestrials'

The Huffington Post

Former American President Dwight D Eisenhower had three secret meetings with aliens from another planet, a former US government consultant has claimed.
The 34th President of the United States met the extra terrestrials at a remote air base in New Mexico in 1954, according to lecturer and author Timothy Good.
Eisenhower and other FBI officials are said to have organised the showdown with the space creatures by sending out 'telepathic messages'.
The two parties finally met up on three separate occasions at the Holloman Air Force base and there were 'many witnesses', it is claimed.
Conspiracy theorists have circulated increased rumours in recent months that the meeting between the Commander-in-Chief and people from another planet took place.
But the claims from Mr Good, a former U.S. Congress and Pentagon consultant, are the first to be made publicly by a prominent academic.
Speaking Frank Skinner's BBC2 current affairs show Opinionated, he said that governments around the world have been in regular contact with aliens for many decades.
"Aliens have made both formal and informal contact with thousands of people throughout the world from all walks of life," he added.
Asked why the aliens don't go to somebody 'important' like Barack Obama, he said: "Well, certainly I can tell you that in 1954, President Eisenhower had three encounters, set up meetings with aliens, which took place at certain Air Force bases including Holloman Air Force base in New Mexico."
He added that there were "many witnesses".
Eisenhower, who was president from 1953 to 1961, is known to have had a strong belief in life on other planets.
The former five-star general in the United States Army who commanded the Allied Forces in Europe during the Second World War, was also keen on pushing the U.S. space programme.
His meeting with the cosmic life forms is said to have taken place while officials were told that he was on vacation in Palm Springs, California, in February 1954.
The initial meeting is supposed to have taken place with aliens who were 'Nordic' in appearance, but the agreement was eventually 'signed' with a race called 'Alien Greys'.
Mr Good added: "We know that up to 90 per cent of all UFO reports can be explained in conventional terms. However, I would say millions of people worldwide have actually seen the real thing."
According to classified documents released by the Ministry of Defence in 2010, Winston Churchill may have ordered a UFO sighting to be kept secret.
The UFO was seen over the East Coast of England by an RAF reconnaissance plane returning from a mission in France or Germany towards the end of the war.
Churchill is said to have discussed how to deal with UFO sightings with Eisenhower.

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Ancient Alien Abduction

By Chris Capps

We often see alien abduction as a contemporary phenomenon, happening mostly in the last sixty or seventy years with a few trace cases reaching back into antiquity all the way to the middle ages. But examination of cave paintings depicted by the Tassili suggest the phenomenon may be far older and more widespread than we ever understood before. Were there cases of ancient alien abductions? Let's turn back the clock and take a look.

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depict a woman being led by mysterious figures toward a large spherical object located nearby. The creatures involved look roughly humanoid except for a helmet which appears very similar to one commonly portrayed as an extraterrestrial space helmet. The level of technology involved is far simpler in these paintings, with the alleged creatures requiring breathing apparatus or some sort of space helmet - possibly in order to survive Earth's atmosphere. The woman is depicted with no exaggerated features, simply as a human figure being led by the hand. Was this a scene the painter saw with his own eyes?

Looking back throughout history, however, there are several cases where beings from somewhere else - often the sky or deep underground have taken humans captive. Occasionally these people are returned, but other times they are never seen again.

Followers of the ancient alien phenomenon often recall the story of Ezekial's wheel in which several mysterious creatures boarded a "wheel" which was raising and lowering in the sky. Was Ezekial's wheel a simpler interpretation of the more modern flying saucer? But there is another account, this one coming from Matthew, that described the B'nai Elohim that took the daughters of Adam and brought forth a race of powerful beings which existed alongside the human race at its earliest stages. Is this a purely apocryphal tale? Or does it describe the presence of an ancient race of beings engaged in the same genetic gathering practices that are spoken of today in alien abduction accounts?

If we accept the possibility that ancient aliens may have once roamed this Earth, manipulating the human race and interacting with them, then it may be worth also examining the motivations of these ancient races and how they may coincide with current motivations. If the human element has always been a common factor, then whatever crisis these ancient aliens had at the time has not been solved through technology in the past few thousand years - meaning it may be around a bit longer.

Imagine the apprehension people may have felt seeing creatures from the heavens suddenly diving down into their village and taking people aboard their vessels. Of course it may not have been quite the way it is now. Accounts and pictographs of ancient rituals, now considered apocryphal show people being chosen or sacrificed to these entities. Is it possible these ancient beings even used the governments of ancient civilizations to achieve the cooperation or acceptance of their visits?

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The Royals and UFOs – Some tantalizing facts behind the hype (Pt. I)

By Antonio Huneeus

Apr 29, 2011

Newlyweds, William and Kate

A few week ago, an AolNews story about Major George Filer’s prediction that UFOs were expected to be seen at the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton received huge publicity worldwide. As far as I know, no UFO sightings or footage has emerged so far as the British people and a global audience enjoyed the pageantry of the royal wedding earlier today. The AolNews story, which spread like wildfire through the British press and elsewhere, also quoted famous crop circle researcher Colin Andrews about the Queen’s interest in his first book Circular Evidence, Dan Willis, an expert on royal genealogy, and New York ufologist Mike Luckman, who was the first to feed the information on the Royals’ alleged interest in UFOs to AOL writer David Moye.
I’ve known retired USAF Major and MUFON Eastern Region Director George Filer for many years—he was one of the speakers at our recent International UFO Congress and his weekly electronic Filer’s Files is a great resource for global UFO sightings. However, his prediction of possible sightings at the royal wedding was not based on any solid data. A more interesting revelation in the AOL article which had not been published before was that Filer himself once met Prince Philip, the Queen’s husband and Duke of Edinburgh who by all accounts is the one member in the royal family most interested in UFOs.
According to Major Filer, “it was around 1961 or ’62, when I was a navigator in a tanker. He [Prince Philip] met with a group of us after dinner because he wanted to talk about UFOs. He told us that the RAF had stopped sending fighters after UFOs because some of them didn’t come back. They decided to send tankers, which were nearly as fast as the fighters but could hold 15 hours of fuel, compared to two for the fighters.” That is quite a statement—that some RAF fighters didn’t come back or crashed after a UFO chase—if Filer is quoting the Prince correctly. While there are several well known cases of UFO-aircraft scrambles in the declassified British military documents, I am not aware of any that backs the allegation that planes didn’t return to their bases or crashed following a UFO incident in the UK. Similar incidents did occur in the USA and in the old USSR but did not involve British pilots.

Lord Mountbatten, royal ufologist

Lord Mountbatten (image credit: Allan Warren)

Filer went on to say in the AOL interview that, “I asked him [Prince Philip] why he was so interested in UFOs and he explained that his uncle, the Earl Mountbatten, had seen them up close.” Later on in the article, Luckman was quoted saying also that “Lord Mountbatten not only had a sighting, but one of his former employees reportedly claimed they saw a craft on [Mountbatten’s] estate.” Prince Philip’s uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten (1900-1979), 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, was a famous British Admiral of the Fleet who served as Supreme Allied Commander in South East Asia during World War II, and was also the last Viceroy of India up to the independence and partition of India and Pakistan in 1948. His wife, Lady Edwina Ashley, was also a well known socialite. The Earl was murdered by the IRA in a notorious terrorist act in 1979.
Lord Mountbatten’s interest in UFOs is well documented and beyond dispute, although none of the sources we’ve consulted mention a personal UFO sighting, as claimed by Filer and Luckman. The subject is discussed in some detail in Mountbatten, an authoritative biography by Philip Ziegler (Alfred A. Knopf, 1985), which shows that in the early 1950s the Earl was indeed fascinated with the subject of flying saucers and had some odd theories about them. What triggered this interest is unclear—perhaps it was motivated by foo fighter accounts that he saw or heard as Supreme Allied Commander in Asia, but that is just an educated guess. In any case, Ziegler writes that “his interest in the subject was so keen that he tried to persuade the editor of the Sunday Dispatch to put a team on to sifting the reported cases and pursuing the more promising.”
Lord Mountbatten’s theory about the origin of UFOs was, in his own words, “a far-fetched explanation,” yet he had somehow arrived at it by 1950, as shown in the papers of Lady Mountbatten. While discussing flying saucers with his daughter Patricia and his close friend Peter Murphy, Ziegler quotes that they were “both convinced that they come from another planet but we mutually and independently came to the conclusion that they were not ‘aeroplanes’ with silly little almost human pilots but are themselves the actual inhabitants: Martians, Venusians, Jupiterians or what have you. Why should life in another planet with entirely different conditions in any way resemble life on our planet? Their inhabitants might be ‘gaseous’ or circular or very large. They certainly don’t breathe, they may not have to eat and I doubt if they have babies—bits of their great discs may break away and grow into a new creature. The fact that they can hover and accelerate away from the earth’s gravity again and even revolve round a V2 in America (as reported by their head scientist) shows that they are far ahead of us. If they really come over in a big way that may settle the capitalist-communist war. If the human race wishes to survive they may have to band together.”
While the theory that UFOs are not traveling machines carrying alien occupants but living entities themselves has been proposed by some researchers (the best known is author John Trevor Constable), Mountbatten seems to be perhaps the first to have linked it to UFO sightings. (Actually, famous author Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote a short story entitled “Terror in the Sky” about early aviation and huge living creatures in the upper atmosphere.) The Earl was perfectly aware that his theory seemed weird and in his correspondence with the editor of the Sunday Dispatch, Charles Eade, he wrote, “I know this sounds ridiculous, and I am relying on you…not to make any capital out of the fact that I have put forward such a far-fetched explanation.”

The 1955 Landing and CE-III at the Broadlands Estate

The Broadlands Estate (image credit: www.broadlandsestates.co.uk)

While some UFOs could be living entities, most are not, as Lord Mountbatten himself was able to ascertain when he personally investigated a landing and Close Encounter of the Third Kind (CE-III) right on the grounds of his own estate at Broadlands in Romsey, Hampshire, on the morning of February 23, 1955. The actual Broadlands Archives documents of his investigation—the Earl’s summary of the case, a drawing of the craft and being and a signed statement by the witness, Frederick Briggs, a retired British Army Sergeant who was working as a bricklayer in Broadlands—were obtained and published in full in Timothy Good’s famous 1987 book, Above Top Secret – The Worldwide UFO Cover-up.

Files on Broadlands UFO Encounter. (image credit: Broadlands Archives) Click image to see entire file.

You can read the full report in the original documents above, but for now suffice to say that Frederick Briggs was riding his bike at Broadlands at 8:30 in the morning of February 23, 1955 when, “I suddenly saw an object hovering stationary over the field… The object was shaped like a child’s huge humming-top and half way between 20ft. or 30ft. in diameter. Its colour was like dull aluminium, rather like a kitchen saucerpan. It was shaped like the sketch which I have endeavoured to make, and had portholes all round the middle, rather like a steamer has…While I was watching a column, about the thickness of a man, descended from the centre of the Saucer and I suddenly noticed on it, what appeared to be a man, presumably standing on a small platform on the end. He did not appear to be holding on to anything. He seemed to be dressed in a dark suit of overalls, and was wearing a close fitting hat or helmet.”
So there you have it! A classic CE-III with a helmeted alien right on the estate of one Britain’s most famous military men and member of the royal family, an uncle of the Duke of Edinburgh. The UFO experience was not over either. Briggs then noticed “a curious light come on in one of the portholes…a bluish light, rather like a mercury vapour light.” Although the light was not directly aimed at him, Briggs fell on the snow with the bike on top. “While lying on the ground I could see the tube withdrawn quickly into the Saucer, which then rose vertically, quite as fast as the fastest Jet aircraft I have seen, or faster.”
Sgt. Briggs was dizzy for a little while but eventually got back on his bike towards the mansion, where he saw the electrician Heath, told him the story and both went together right away to the spot where the event occurred. The trail is picked up now by Lord Mountbatten himself, who in his own signed statement writes: “My own electrician, Heath, reported his conversation and I subsequently interviewed Mr. Briggs, with my wife and younger daughter, and as a result of his account, Heath and I accompanied him to the place from which he saw the Flying Saucer.” You can read the rest of the Mountbatten summary and Brigg’s deposition here. The Broadlands’ dossier also includes Brigg’s own sketch of the craft and its occupant.

Briggs' sketch of the UFO and occupant.

The Desmond Leslie account

Sir Desmond Leslie

The Broadlands UFO incident was at one point ready to appear on the front page of the Sunday Graphic, but the story was quashed to protect the privacy of Lord Mountbatten and his family. So it was only in 1981, long after the Earl’s tragic murder by the IRA in August 1979, that the UFO story finally appeared in print in England’s Flying Saucer Review (Vol. 26, No. 5, Jan. 1981) in an article written by Desmond Leslie titled, “DID FLYING SAUCERS LAND AT BROADLANDS? Alleged encounters on the Estate of Earl Mountbatten of Burma.” Desmond Leslie himself was a colorful, eccentric aristocratic author and musician, whose father was first cousin to Winston Churchill. In ufology Leslie is best known for writing most of Flying Saucers Have Landed, the famous book of Adamski about his contact with a Venusian in Desert Center, California, in 1952—most of the book deals with other material, much of it historical, written by Leslie.
Leslie interviewed Briggs years later and there is no need to repeat the details already contained in the statements written right after the incident. The interview must have been many years later because the date was no longer clear, he puts it in the mid or late 50s. But there are some interesting details, for instance, this description of Lord Mountbatten’s interview with Sgt. Briggs:
“Now we come to the bit that just could not be published until now, for it was stated that Lord Mountbatten produced a number of UFO photographs and asked Briggs to study them closely and try to identify the one he’d just seen. To encourage him he told him not to be ashamed, nor to feel foolish, because “we know about these things and are very interested in them.” Those are the words Briggs related to me as spoken by Lord Mountbatten.”
The final part of Leslie’s article is far more controversial, reporting that Briggs claimed he had a second encounter on the following day, which quickly became a typical contactee story where Briggs is invited by the friendly ET to go aboard the saucer and chose a place to visit. He thought of the Pyramids of Egypt and after a short flight of no more than ten minutes, “I was able to see them from above and from the side at the same time,” Briggs told Leslie, including a final word from the aliens that, “If Lord Mountbatten met us he could change the world.”
There are problems with this second addition to the Broadlands 1955 UFO incident. Harry Challenger, who inherited the venerable Flying Saucer Review after the passing of its long-time published and editor Gordon Creighton, told me that he had seen evidence at the FSR archives that the second Briggs story was bogus, as he himself had apparently later admitted. We know that Lord Mountbatten didn’t believe in it either, as Leslie tells how he used his friendship with General Sir Frederick Browning, who was at the time the Queen’s Private Secretary, to send a letter to the Earl via Browning. “I did get a reply. And it was direct,” wrote Leslie. “Of the second close encounter—he [Mountbatten] didn’t believe a word of it! That’s what the General told me, and he laughed.”

The grounds of the Broadlands Estate (image credit: www.broadlandsestates.co.uk)

Mountbatten’s biographer Ziegler says that by 1957 the Earl’s interest in the subject had waned a bit. “I must be honest and confess that I no longer take the same interest,” he wrote a correspondent in April 1957. “He never rejected the possibility that the objects existed, however, merely insisted that if they did they must be susceptible of rational explanation. Few senior naval officers would have been ready to confront the paranormal with such equanimity,” wrote Ziegler. He obviously also passed his passion and interest in the saucers to his nephew Philip and was in a way the first royal ufologist, at least for a while during the 1950-57 period more or less.
More amazing UFO stories and alleged meeting with aliens involving generals linked to the royal family in the second part next week.

(Mac:  Part 2 tomorrow).