Prince Philip was fascinated by UFOs and collected evidences of the contacts with aliens

Metro reports about an unexpected hobby of the recently deceased Duke of Edinburgh. As it turned out from the stories of those close to him, the Queen's husband was a longtime subscriber of the Flying Saucer Review magazine, dedicated to flying saucers, and carried interest in the alien topic throughout his life. Back in the 1950s, Prince Philip asked his personal assistant to bring him to Buckingham Palace for personal conversations with British Air Force personnel who allegedly saw UFOs. And in 2019, I read a book about the so-called Randlesham Incident - a famous incident that occurred in 1980, when employees of the American Air Force base in Suffolk County observed strange lights and objects in the sky for several days. The duke had a whole collection of books on extraterrestrial civilizations.

According to the British press, the Duke's interest in UFOs arose under the influence of his uncle Lord Mountbatten, who at one time even wrote an official report on a silver spaceship that allegedly landed on his estate in Hampshire in 1955. The lord claimed that from a ship hovering above the ground, a figure appeared, wearing a jumpsuit and a helmet.

Longtime journalist Nick Pope, who led the UK Department of Defense's UFO project, said that Prince Philip was “completely fascinated” by extraterrestrial civilizations: “This royal interest in UFOs got in the way of us in the ministry because our policy was to play down the true degree of our interest in this subject. We have constantly stated to parliament, the media and the public that this topic is of very limited interest and has no defense significance. The irony was that we were all servants of the Crown, and our top bosses were fascinated by a subject that we were actively trying to debunk".