Close Up (UFO)
"Close Up" is the eleventh episode aired of the first series of "UFO" - a 1970 British television science fiction series about an alien invasion of Earth. The screenplay was written Tony Barwick and the director was Alan Perry. The episode was filmed between 29 September to 9 October, 1969 and aired on the ATV Midlands on 16 December 1970. Though shown as the eleventh episode, it was actually the thirteenth to have been filmed.
Michael Knighton
In 1996 Knighton was publicly mocked over his claims to have seen a UFO. He claimed that he and his wife Rosemary had seen a UFO in 1976. The local newspaper, the "Evening News and Star", broke the story with the headline 'Knighton: Aliens Spoke To Me'.