UFO (possibly). Photo / bltphoto. To the Daily Mail, for one of its regular slabs of reader-tweaking nonsense. “Hitler’s secret flying saucer: Did the Führer plan to attack London and New York in UFOs?” – queries the newspaper today, citing prototypes for a “bell-shaped craft”, …
This week we have a look at London UFOs in history, starting with something strange seen flying over the Thames one morning in May. It was a UFO in the sense that no one knew what the object was but once it landed at Stratford …
Muswell Hill has apparently been renamed ‘Roswell Hill’ by residents after a number of local UFO sightings, reports the Muswell Hill Journal. The latest sighting was reported by David Swan on the UK UFO website. He “saw a red/orange light appear behind the trees but …
“Let’s go home, Kang. They’re all idiots.” Unidentified ‘silver shapes’ were seen floating over Streatham yesterday. Hundreds of people supposedly reported the spectacle, with LBC’s James Whale receiving a deluge of calls and emails, backed up by a chorus of Tweets. Did anyone really see …
Skystation, a “new concept in public seating”, has opened outside the Hayward Gallery. Looking like a UFO prop from an old Ed Wood movie, the circular sculpture-cum-bench is designed by artist Peter Newman, who took inspiration from Le Corbusier’s LC4 chaise longue. Despite the tough …
112. The Heathrow Happenings! As thousands of people stream into London’s Heathrow Airport every day, there’s little time to notice that the gentleman next to you is not what he seems. He’s tall, with a bowler hat perched upon his head and he is wearing …
108. The Strange Case of the Flying Whatsit of Wimbledon! When there’s something strange, in your neighbourhood… who ya gonna call? If ever there was a case of something weird resembling the green slimer from hit ’80s movie ‘Ghostbusters’, then it was the ‘thing’ that …
“Let’s go home, Kang. They’re all idiots.” You’ve gotta love local newspapers. This quote from the Islington Gazette comes from a local resident who filmed and reported mysterious lights in his local skies: After the New Year’s countdown at around ten past midnight I went …
Strange news from the East of the glittering constellation that is London: UFO sightings over a Tesco car park in Bromley-by-Bow. Now London has an impressive record of such sightings, as we reported in Saturday Strangeness earlier on this year, and indeed there are many …
41. London UFOs Part Seven By the mid to late ‘80s reports of alien abductions were spreading like wildfire across the world, and it appeared as though the abductors had taken on their latest, slimlined form – that being of large headed, bug-eyed and slender …
40. London UFOs Part Six The ‘70s began slow for UFO reports over the capital, but then things got very weird! Firstly, at Acton, a witness reported a UFO sighting to Hounslow Police Station. Then, two police officers in the same building spotted presumably the …
