Ilkley Moor UFO incident

There was an alleged UFO incident on Ilkley Moor on 1 December 1987. A retired police officer claimed that he had been abducted by aliens while on a morning walk and briefly held on their craft before being returned to the moor. The man took a photograph of the moor which he said shows one of the aliens that abducted him.

The photograph subsequently became a news story in the UK. It has been cited as one of the strongest pieces of evidence that we have that extraterrestrials have visited Earth. It has also been described as “incredibly blurry”. Sceptics have dismissed the incident as a hoax, saying that the photograph shows something else, such as a man or a cardboard cut-out.