The Alien franchise was riding high throughout the 1980s. Directed by Ridley Scott, the original 1979 movie was a box office hit, while critical opinion rocketed from solid to spectacular as the years ...

Stories of alien abductions peaked in the Sixties and Seventies, but one case that predates them is said to have taken place in the North-East. Gavin Havery reports. IT is a sunny spring day in 1940.