Sceptics complain that aliens always seem to visit ‘ordinary’ people and never make any attempt to land on the proverbial White House Lawn to meet our leaders. Behind the scenes, US Presidents and other world leaders have taken an active interest in the subject – indeed Jimmy Carter actually reported a UFO sighting before he was elected President in 1977.

In Britain our Royal Family have long been fascinated by sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and, according to at least one source, have been very close to meeting alien beings from other worlds.

Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, along with His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, took an immediate interest in the topic when ‘flying saucer’ sightings hit the headlines in the 1950s. They read UFO books and received copies of the highly influential Flying Saucer Review magazine from its launch in 1955 until at least the 1980s.

This feature can be read in Paranormal issue 36

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