FROM DRAGONS TO DRONES
Robert Moore at the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (ASSAP) ‘Seriously Strange’ conference, held at the University of Bath on 3 and 4 September 2022, discussed his FoxFire project, which outlines the main eras of British UFO activity and research.
The first ‘ancient UFO era’ consisted of UFOs reported before 1947, including mediæval and early modern accounts of ‘fiery dragons’, ‘flying ships’, multiple Suns and the airship scares of the early 20th century.
The second ‘flying disc era’, running from 1947-1959, was a period when the public and officialdom tried to come (1953), described the craft flown by Venusians as a domed disc with portholes and three spheres on its underside. This type of craft was sighted and photographed throughout the UK, and Cedric Allingham describes an encounter in Scotland that was much like Adamski’s in his book (1955). This was no doubt a hoax by TV personality and astronomer Patrick Moore and contains a very unconvincing photograph of a humanoid Martian.
