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Ever since the well known radio broadcaster, author and ufologist Frank Edwards published it in his book Stranger Than Science, the story of a UFO incident during the military campaigns of Alexander the Great has been repeated endless times in ...

A hearing of the Berlin Administrative Court was brought about by a German citizen who wants to gain access to a confidential UFO study.

Years ago I received a package of Spanish UFO-related clippings and documents and I was intrigued by one particular article titled, “Un OVNI en el siglo XV” (A UFO in the 15th century).

The recent publication of author Philip Eade’s biography of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and husband of queen Elizabeth II, has brought into the news once again the intense interest on UFOs by the upper crust of British society.

In May 2010, a blogger with eltiempo.com, Colombia’s leading newspaper, posted an interview with world renowned author Gabriel García Márquez about the UFO subject.

...there are no legitimate ancient Mayan prophecies as such. There are plenty of spurious, new age-type prophecies alleged to be of Maya origin, but no ancient document of prophecies.

In late September the producers of the documentary “Revelations of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond,” currently in production, made sensational claims that the film will reveal evidence in the possession of the Mexican government that the ancient Maya civilization had contact with extraterrestrials.

The tone was light-hearted and it seemed the issue was going to be dismissed as a joke when the president frowned and simply said, “I have seen a UFO.”

...RAND Corporation commissioned its own UFO study. Entitled “UFOs: What to Do?,” the study was written by George Kocher and published “FOR RAND USE ONLY”...

...the history of the RAND Corporation and UFOs goes back to the earliest days of Air Force involvement in the matter.

Charlie Hickson, passed away in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, last Friday September 9 at the age of 80. Hickson is best remembered as the key protagonist of a famous UFO abduction incident in Pascagoula on the early night of October 11, 1973.

2011 has been so far a very cruel year when it comes to prominent ufologists and Forteans passing away.

Below you can watch an exclusive interview with Budd Hopkins from Open Minds done by our former colleague Maurizio Baiata... recorded during the 1997 World UFO Symposium in the Republic of San Marino.

...over 350 pages show the tireless advocacy for UFOs by Admiral of the Fleet Peter Hill-Norton, a former Chief of Defence Staff and a peer in the House of Lords until his death in 2004.

One of the documents that has received some attention in the latest release of UFO files by the British Ministry of Defence (MOD) is a long letter written in 1994 by Ralph Noyes, who headed Defense Secretariat 8 (DS8) in the early seventies...

A video uploaded by La Tercera, Chile’s largest daily newspaper, containing several clips of audio communications between pilots and air traffic controllers released by the Chilean government’s Committee for the Study of Aerial Anomalous Phenomena (Spanish acronym CEFAA), was recently picked up by several American and international UFO websites.

This one is particularly interesting because it involves an apparent landing of an egg-shaped object on January 6, 1969 at a major American military base in Indochina...

“To document, analyze and study unidentified phenomena in an orderly, systematic and truthful manner by means of conventional control systems on the airspace under the National Jurisdiction.”

True to their word, the AAF launched officially their Commission for the Investigation of Aerospace Phenomena (Spanish acronym CIFA) at a ceremony last Thursday May 26...

The case occurred in the village of Lesopilniy in the Khabarovsk region in Russia’s Far East and it involved dozens of witnesses, including soldiers at a military base nearby who fired artillery shells at the UFO without harming it.