On March 1, 2016, I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe titled "UFOs: 'The Star-Spangled Cross.'" It began as follows: If there is one thing which can be said about the UFO phenomenon – and said with a fair degree of certainty – it's that today we don't get the classic 'flaps' and 'waves' that dominated the field of Ufology decades ago. I'm talking about the likes of Washington, D.C. 1952, the surge of UFO activity in 1973, and the Belgian 'Flying Triangle' encounters of 1989-1990. There was also a notable flood of reports in the United Kingdom in 1967 – which is the subject of this particular article. Declassified files from the British Ministry of Defense reveal that from 1959 to 1966 the MoD received close to 450 reports of UFO activity in U.K. airspace – the vast majority of reports coming from the public, and a much smaller number originating with the police and the military. And 1966 led the pack with 95 reports. However, things changed dramatically in 1967 when the MoD