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The call of the UFO

Many years ago when I was running the investigations department at BUFORA – the largest UFO group in the UK – I was presented with a new challenge – UFO Call. This was a telephone ‘hotline’ for UFO reports, and it started exactly 35 years ago as I am writing this piece – 10 February 1989. Taking the UFO mystery to the nation via their telephones offered the potential to greatly increase the number of cases that might be reported to BUFORA.

From phone calls to that hotline, we had a brief snapshot of a case, which would lead to an investigation by a local ufologist if the witness was

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