A sponsor is being sought for an important collection of 107 pieces of Irish silver available to the National Museum of Ireland until the end of February.

Military sightings of UFOs, an "alien abduction" in London and an unidentified aircraft shadowing a Lancaster bomber feature among thousands of close-encounter documents released by the British National Archives today.

FLYING Toblerones, mysterious illnesses and silky-white substances are among hundreds of close encounters described in previously top-secret files released by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) yesterday.

ATTEMPTED abductions, scrambled fighter jets and flying saucers over Glastonbury are among hundreds of dramatic reports of close encounters released by the British Ministry of Defence.