Series from 2012
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Entrancing stories of unidentified flying objects are usually associated with dusty deserts in the southern parts of the USA. Yet in this stimulating …
Scotland's Livingston UFO, Norway's Hessdalen Lights and Portugal's Castelo de Bode Dam encounter. On 17th June, 1977 a young Portuguese pilot comes face to face with a large unknown object at 5,000 feet. He observes it for a few seconds before it vanishes into the clouds. Suddenly, his magnetic compass spins wildly and his aircraft goes into an uncontrolled nose dive.
Around 3am on Dec 26th 1980, US Air Force personnel venture into the forest to investigate strange lights. Two nights later, similar lights are seen again as the Deputy Base Commander makes his way through the forest with a team. A set of unknown files describing a UFO sighting in Venice in 1936 are anonymously sent to an Italian Ufologist.
On 28th January 1994, pilot Jean-Charles Duboc, his co-pilot and an air steward flying an Air France flight from Nice to London see a huge brown object hovering above the outskirts of Paris. Unidentified objects are witnessed flying over the quiet provincial town of Evora, Portugal in 1959. Danish files reveal two very similar UFO encounters that occur in Denmark some 25 years apart.
In 1990, a strange ‘turtle-shaped’ UFO hovers low above a rural Portuguese town and is witnessed by dozens of observers. Autumn 1952 - numerous UFO sightings by military personnel taking part in a huge NATO training exercise in the North Sea “Operation Mainbrace” create a radical change in the British government’s attitude to UFOs. In 2001, a power blackout plunges a tiny Romanian village into darkness.
In 1946, nearly a thousand strange objects are seen flying through the skies of Sweden. Despite many being witnessed crashing into lakes, and a thorough government investigation, not a single piece of debris was ever found. In 1982, a Portuguese Air Force pilot is circled by a UFO at over 1500 meters for nearly 30 minutes. The incident launched one of the biggest UFO investigations in Portuguese military history.
8th September 1970: the height of the Cold War. American pilot Capt. Schaffner is scrambled to intercept an unidentified target over the North Sea and disappears without trace. When his aircraft is discovered, the cockpit is closed but his body has vanished. In 2004, in a small fishing village on the island of Sicily, a series of unexplained incidents take place… one after another.
Four civilian pilots see missile-shaped UFO following power lines whilst flying in their Cessna plane in 1985. On January 8th, 1981, a man working in a field in Trans en Provence sees an object lands in his field before it took off again, leaving behind marks on the ground. From late 1989 to 1990 a wave of sightings are reported across Belgium of a triangle of lights silently moving in the night’s sky.