UFO Drawings from The National Archives

UFO Drawings from The National Archives presents selected images from Britain’s Ministry of Defence UFO files, placing witness sketches and paintings alongside letters, photographs and official reports. David Clarke considers how these pictures recorded alleged sightings and helped shape the visual culture surrounding British flying-saucer reports.

The cases include a reported alien craft on the A1, flying saucers over Hampstead and a spaceship allegedly landing at a primary school in Macclesfield. The book also traces the work of the Ministry of Defence UFO Desk, which gathered accounts and supporting material for more than 60 years. Clarke’s selection treats the drawings as archival evidence of how people described, remembered and represented aerial phenomena.