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Flying Saucery: How UFOs Landed in the British Isles
- 01/07/2025
- 19:00-20:30
- online talk

Dust jacket images: Flying Saucers Have Landed, by George Adamski and Desmond Leslie (London: Werner Laurie, 1953) and Flying Saucer from Mars, by Cedric Allingham (London: Frederick Muller, 1954) – Photograph © A Robinson, 2025.
Flying Saucery: How UFOs Landed in the British Isles A Folklore Society Online Talk by Dr David Clarke (Sheffield Hallam University), and Andrew Robinson (Sheffield Hallam University) Tuesday 1 July, 19:00 BST Sightings of and belief in the existence of Flying Saucers (later UFOs and now UAP) first began to emerge from the USA in 1947 and are...