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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Was Fascinated With UFOs and Aliens

April 24, 2021
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Article by Jane Clinton April 10, 2021 (inews.co.uk)

• Among the late Prince Philip’s varied interests, the Duke of Edinburgh (pictured above) was said to be fascinated with UFOs and amassed a sizeable library of books on the subject. It is believed his interest was sparked by his uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten, who wrote an official report about an unidentified craft landing at his Broadlands estate in Romsey, Hampshire.

• Prince Philip spent the summer of 2019 reading The Halt Perspective which explores the Rendlesham Forest Incident. Dubbed “Britain’s Roswell”, US Air Force security personnel stationed at nearby RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk reported seeing strange lights on December 26th and 28th 1980 in the surrounding forest. US servicemen claim to have gotten within touching distance of a “craft of unknown origin”.

• The Halt Perspective was co-written by retired US Air Force Col Charles Halt, who was the base deputy commander at the time, along with retired West Midlands detective, John Hanson. In a letter to Mr. Hanson, Prince Philip’s private secretary Brigadier Archie Miller-Bakewell wrote: “I am certain it will be read with close interest over the summer.” Upon Prince Phillip receiving another book by Mr. Hanson, Haunted Skies: The Encyclopedia of British UFOs, Miller-Bakewell again replied: “His Royal Highness will add this copy to his collection.” It is believed the duke spent decades collecting such titles on extra-terrestrial activity.

• John Hanson’s ex-father-in-law Chief Petty Officer Edward West served in the Royal Navy with Lord Mountbatten on the HMS Kelly. West said that the Duke had twelve of Hanson’s UFO/extraterrestrial books on his shelf. “I’m quite proud of Prince Philip,” said Hanson. “[W]hy shouldn’t he have been interested in UFOs, because for goodness sake, that is something that we should treat seriously rather than flippantly. It is a phenomenon that has baffled mankind for millennia.” Hanson adds, “Even Prince Charles is interested in it and Prince William”

• Derek Dempster, a former RAF pilot who went on to become a reporter for the Daily Express and then founding editor of Flying Saucer Review, spoke of “allies” in the likes of “Sir Peter Horsley, who had been Station Commander at North Weald, and was then equerry to Prince Philip”. “We received collaboration from Henry Chinnery, who was Horsley’s successor,” said Dempster. “Both men had a keen interest in keeping the Palace posted on ‘flying saucers’ and we used to exchange files with them.”

• Dempster, who died in 2012, went on: “There was also a shorthand writer for Lord Mountbatten, named Dan Lloyd, who was an ex-Royal Navy man. He was also very interested in ‘flying saucer’ matters and shared this interest and new research material with Mountbatten. It was said, at the time, that Mountbatten kept lever files of UFO photographs to show visitors on the bridge of the warships when he was at sea.”

**Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh**

Among his vast and varied interests, the Duke of Edinburgh was said to have had an enduring fascination with UFOs and amassed a sizeable library of titles on the subject.

It is believed his interest was sparked by his uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten, who wrote an official report about an unidentified craft landing at his Broadlands estate in Romsey, Hampshire.

Prince Philip reportedly spent the summer of 2019 reading The Halt Perspective which explores the Rendlesham Forest Incident which has been dubbed “Britain’s Roswell”.

United States Air Force (USAF) security personnel stationed at nearby RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk, reported seeing strange lights on 26 and 28 December 1980 in the surrounding forest.

Servicemen went to investigate with one even claiming they got to within touching distance of a “craft of unknown origin”.

The Halt Perspective was co-written by retired US Air Force Col Charles Halt, who was the base deputy commander at the time, and retired West Midlands detective, John Hanson.

In a letter to Mr Hanson, Philip’s then private secretary Brigadier Archie Miller-Bakewell wrote: “I am certain it will be read with close interest over the summer.”

Then after receiving another book on the topic by Mr Hanson, Haunted Skies: The Encyclopedia of British UFOs Brigadier Miller-Bakewell again replied: “His Royal Highness will add this copy to his collection.”

John Hanson, whose ex-father-in-law, Chief Petty Officer Edward West, known as Ted, was on HMS Kelly with Lord Mountbatten, told i that the Duke had 12 of his books on the extraterrestrial.

Mr Hanson said: “I’ve got about 12 letters from the Duke’s private secretary that say the prince found the subject interesting.

“I’m quite proud of Prince Philip, why shouldn’t he have been interested in UFOs, because for goodness sake, that is something that we should treat seriously rather than flippantly. It is a phenomenon that has baffled mankind for millennia.”

He added: “Even Prince Charles is interested in it and Prince William”

It is believed the duke spent decades collecting such titles on extra-terrestrial activity.

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An Alien, An Air Marshal and Atomic War

February 19, 2018
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by Nick Redfern February 6, 2018 (mysteriousuniverse.org)

• From 1949 to 1956, Sir Peter Horsley served as an RAF officer n the home of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, now known as Queen Elizabeth II and her consort, Prince Phillip (pictured above).

• Horsley became interested in UFO and extraterrestrials and UFO through Prince Phillip’s own fascination with UFOs. Prince Phillip introduced Horsley to an American General named Martin, and to Martin’s acquaintance the “mysterious” Mrs. Markham. General Martin “believed UFOs were visitors from an alien civilization which wanted to warn us of the dangers posed by atomic war.”

• In 1954, Markham invited Horsely to meet a strange man named Janus, which he did and they talked for hours about traveling in space and time. Horsely was certain that Janus was reading his mind, and he also knew all of Britain’s top-secret nuclear secrets. Said Horsley, “I don’t know what or who he was. He didn’t say he was a visitor from another planet but I had that impression.”

• Right up to his death in 2001, Horsely remained adamant that this bizarre episode was not some state-sponsored operation designed to gauge Sir Peter’s character and loyalty. Said Horsley, “I don’t care what people think. It was what happened. I would say they come from another planet somewhere in the universe but not in our galaxy. They are benign, not aggressive and, like us, are explorers.”

Born in 1921, Air Marshal Sir Beresford Peter Torrington Horsley began his career with the British military in 1939, when he boarded the TSS Cyclops, a steamer bound for Malaya. For the return journey, and as the Second World War was declared, he changed ships – to the TSS Menelaus – and eventually gravitated to a career in the Royal Air Force. First as an air-gunner, then as a pilot, and subsequently as a flight-instructor. Horsley was later attached to the Communications-Squadron of the 2nd Tactical Air Force in France. And, during the D-Day invasion of Normandy, he accepted the job of personal pilot to Major-General Sir Miles Graham. He returned to England in 1947, joined the staff of the Central Flying School, 23 Training Group, and was appointed Adjutant to the Oxford University Air Squadron in 1948.

In July 1949, Horsley entered the Royal Household as a Squadron Leader, and as Equerry to Her Royal Highness, the Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh (better known today as Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II), and to His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh. In 1952, Horsley became a Wing-Commander and in 1953 became a full-time Equerry to the Duke of Edinburgh; it was a role he held until 1956. His final post in the Royal Air Force was as the Deputy-Commander-in-Chief of Strike Command, which he held from 1973 to 1975. And there’s one more thing: Horsley’s other claim to fame is that, in late 1954, he had a face-to-face encounter with a human-looking alien who went by the memorable and mysterious name of Mr. Janus.

The very strange affair began when Horsley learned of the Duke of Edinburgh’s fascination with the complexities of the UFO puzzle. According to Horsley (in his 1998 book, Sounds From Another Room): “[The Duke] was quite interested. As always his mind was open. He agreed I should do a study on the subject in my spare time; as long as I kept it in perspective and didn’t bring the Palace into disrepute. He didn’t want to see headlines about him believing in little green men.”

With typical British understatement, Horsley said: “At the end of my tour at the Palace, I had a very strange experience.” To say the least!

Sir Arthur Barratt, who worked at Buckingham Palace, as Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State, introduced Horsley to a certain General Martin, who, in turn, put him in touch with a mysterious Mrs. Markham. Interestingly, the English researchers Dr. David Clarke and Andy Roberts learned from Horsley that General Martin “believed UFOs were visitors from an alien civilization which wanted to warn us of the dangers posed by atomic war.” Mrs. Markham who told Horsley to turn up at a particular apartment in London’s Chelsea district on a specific evening, where he would meet a stranger: the aforementioned Mr. Janus.

Horsley said of his chat with the man that: “Janus was there, sitting by the fire in a deep chair. He asked: ‘What is your interest in flying saucers?’ We talked for hours about traveling in space and time. I don’t know what or who he was. He didn’t say he was a visitor from another planet but I had that impression. I believe he was here to observe us. I never saw him again. I have no qualms about the reaction to my experience with Mr. Janus.”

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