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UFO Drawings from the National Archives
By David Clarke.
Sixty years of letters, official reports, photographs, drawings and paintings of UFO sightings from British government files
Originally established at the request of Winston Churchill in the aftermath of World War II, the British Ministry of Defence’s UFO Desk operated for more than 60 years, collating mysterious sightings and records of strange objects in the sky from observant, and sometimes imaginative, members of the public. As well as letters and official reports, the UFO files contain photographs, drawings and even paintings of these curious sightings sent in by concerned citizens. In 2007, after decades of stonewalling questions about its UFO investigations, the Ministry of Defence announced that it had decided to release all of its surviving files, in an attempt to counter “the maze of rumor and frequently ill-informed speculation” on the subject.
Journalism scholar David Clarke has been working with the UK’s National Archives on the UFO files since the Ministry of Defence began to release them. In this volume, Clarke selects examples from the archives to present a history of British UFO art and the remarkable stories behind these images: accounts of an alien craft on the A1, flying saucers over Hampstead and a spaceship landing at a primary school in Macclesfield. Revealing the uncanny experiences, rumors, hopes, fears and fantasies expressed by British people from all walks of life, UFO Drawings from the National Archives offers a glimpse into a secret social history of the twentieth century.
UFO Drawings from the National Archives is part of the Four Corners Irregulars series spotlighting important but overlooked areas of creativity from modern British visual history.
Featured image is reproduced from "UFO Drawings from the National Archives."
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
Document Journal
Pemberton Nathan Taylor
While the archetypes of the extraterrestrial aren’t exactly undone in David Clarke’s book, UFO Drawings from the National Archives, they are reimagined in delightful amateur strokes in a collection comprised of renderings from over six decades of correspondence sent to the UFO Desk at the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence.
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Every season there are a few books that everyone loves. Everyone. So far in 2018, this is the one. Published by London-based Four Corners Books, UFO Drawings from the National Archives collects six decades worth of homespun UFO documentation from the recently released files of the British Ministry of Defence’s UFO Desk. (Swear.) Featured here is "The National Archives DEFE 24/2036," a photograph submitted by a British tourist on vacation in Sri Lanka on the afternoon of March 27, 2004, when this “unidentified atmospheric condition” was documented. Following a “partial aura in the sky” and a loud, thunderclap-like sound, “a ring like a doughnut” appeared in the sky. The observer noted “an air burst of some kind or other.” continue to blog
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FORMAT: Hbk, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 128 pgs / 34 color / 24 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $25.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $34.5 ISBN: 9781909829091 PUBLISHER: Four Corners Books AVAILABLE: 2/27/2018 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: Out of stock TERRITORY: NA ME
Sixty years of letters, official reports, photographs, drawings and paintings of UFO sightings from British government files
Originally established at the request of Winston Churchill in the aftermath of World War II, the British Ministry of Defence’s UFO Desk operated for more than 60 years, collating mysterious sightings and records of strange objects in the sky from observant, and sometimes imaginative, members of the public. As well as letters and official reports, the UFO files contain photographs, drawings and even paintings of these curious sightings sent in by concerned citizens. In 2007, after decades of stonewalling questions about its UFO investigations, the Ministry of Defence announced that it had decided to release all of its surviving files, in an attempt to counter “the maze of rumor and frequently ill-informed speculation” on the subject.
Journalism scholar David Clarke has been working with the UK’s National Archives on the UFO files since the Ministry of Defence began to release them. In this volume, Clarke selects examples from the archives to present a history of British UFO art and the remarkable stories behind these images: accounts of an alien craft on the A1, flying saucers over Hampstead and a spaceship landing at a primary school in Macclesfield. Revealing the uncanny experiences, rumors, hopes, fears and fantasies expressed by British people from all walks of life, UFO Drawings from the National Archives offers a glimpse into a secret social history of the twentieth century.
UFO Drawings from the National Archives is part of the Four Corners Irregulars series spotlighting important but overlooked areas of creativity from modern British visual history.
