UK UFO files reveal mysterious and hilarious encounters

April 01, 2009, 10:00 AM — The British government has released files kept for decades on UFO close encounters. Some have reasonable explanations, like the fighter pilots who thought they were seeing an experimental aircraft, but really were watching a Russian rocket re-enter the atmosphere. Some are just silly, like the dozens of panicked calls that came in as a result of a blimp bearing a car ad floating over the eastern suburbs of London. And some are genuinely creepy, like the woman who encountered a blonde man who claimed to be an alien -- and then spotted a huge, glowing sphere rising from the ground moments later. Read more...