PHILIP’S PASSION

The nation is in mourning after the death of the Queen’s beloved husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, on 9 April. He will be remembered for his unfailing support for his wife, his devotion to duty and his forthright manner – but did you know he was also fascinated with UFOS?

According to the Metro, the Duke had amassed quite a library on the subject. He’d also given his former personal assistant, Peter Horsley, ‘carte blanche’ to collect stories on UFOS from the RAF – which intrigued him so much that he spent the summer of 2019 reading The Halt Perspective, by Charles Irwin Halt, about the Rendlesham Forest Incident.

In late 1980, staff at a nearby RAF airbase reported seeing a series of unexplained lights in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk. A memo from then-raf Woodbridge deputy base commander Lt Col Charles Halt to the Ministry of Defence, that was later released by the US government, describes an encounter with an apparent UFO in the woods.

According to The Sun, it was

Philip’s uncle Lord Mountbatten who sparked his interest in UFOS after writing an official report about a silver spaceship reportedly landing on his

Broadlands estate in Romsey,

Hampshire in 1955.