FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

FEBRUARY 8, 1937

GRETA GARBo, 30, is worth £100,000 (£6.5 million today). By the age of 50 the Hollywood star is expected to have a £700a-month income from her stock market investments. The actress is also said to have invested in 1,000 acres of land in Sweden.

FEBRUARY 8, 1954

UFos — unidentified flying objects — is now the official name for ‘flying saucers’ in British Air Ministry records. It is estimated that there have been at least 10,000 ‘sightings’ of these strange phenomena of the skies since the war. Every report made to the Air Ministry and its U.S. counterpart is checked.