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How the News of the World broke the story about the Rendlesham Forest UFO in its issue of 1983 October 2. Note for non-UK readers: any newspaper headline writer who uses the cliché “and that’s official” does so with his tongue in his cheek. Legend has it that in this case the headline was written by the editor himself, Derek Jameson.

Jameson later claimed in a column in the Sunday Mirror in 1986 that he never thought it was an alien visitor. Rather, he said, it was “an American military spacecraft which had been on an illegal mission in outer space years ahead of President Reagan’s beloved Star Wars programme”.


	Headline news: How the News of the World broke the story about the Rendlesham Forest UFO in its issue of 1983 October 2. Note for non-UK readers: any newspaper headline writer who uses the cliché “and that’s official” does so with his tongue in his cheek. Legend has it that in this case the headline was written by the editor himself, Derek Jameson. Jameson later claimed in a column in the Sunday Mirror in 1986 that he never thought it was an alien visitor. Rather, he said, it was “an American military spacecraft which had been on an illegal mission in outer space years ahead of President Reagan’s beloved Star Wars programme”.