Winston Churchill

Statesman, Soldier and Writer

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Documents from the 1950s report that the prime minister ordered a RAF bombing crew's encounter with a UFO be hidden from the public for 50 or more years to avoid "mass panic."

On the way back from a bombing raid in the 1950s, British RAF crew witnessed, photographed, and reported a UFO off of the English coast. Winston Churchill, prime minister at the time, insisted that the report stay hidden for at least 50 years in order to avoid mass panic.

According to a scientist whose grandfather was one of Churchill's bodyguards, both Churchill and Eisenhower worked together to cover up the sighting. Supposedly, Churchill thought that not only could reports of the encounter cause mayhem among the public but that it would also devastate many people's views on religion.

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Winston Churchill contemplated alien life

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Churchill wrote on essay early in his career on the potential for alien life and became interested in flying saucers in 1952.

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Churchill wrote this famous memo after the Washington, D.C. UFO incident made world news, just before the 1952 Exercise Mainbrace North Sea sightings.

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Exercise Mainbrace Sightings

September 1952

From September 13-21, 1952, several unidentified aerial objects were reported by military personnel in different locations across Northern Europe and the North Sea. Many of these reports came from participants in Operation Mainbrace, a joint NATO military exercise. The Royal Air Force sightings...

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

July 1952

The events over Washington D.C. in July 1952 are some of the most famous events in the history of the UFO phenomenon. Many credible witnesses–including air traffic controllers and USAF pilots dispatched to intercept the objects–believe they saw physical objects in the sky and on radar...

George C. Marshall

U.S. Army Officer & Statesman

George C. Marshall

U.S. Army Officer & Statesman

Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army claimed that enemy personnel tried to create mass hysteria by flying commercial aircraft over the US mainland which resulted in what became known as the Battle of Los Angeles.

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Winston Churchill lauded Marshall as the "organizer of victory" for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II.

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Minister of Defence, prior to the creation of MoD.

Played a crucial role in the establishment of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) in 1914, which in 1918 combined with the Army's Royal Flying Corps to form the Royal Air Force (RAF). Served as the Secretary-of-State for Air from 1919-1921 and was eventually honored as Air Commodore of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force and received honorary RAF wings.

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