Rex Features has over 1300 thumbnails of photos taken during the filming of UFO! Unfortunately, the full-resolution versions of these photos are only available to the media. But the thumbnails are still quite interesting, and can be found using the following searches: "UFO 1970", "UFO 1971", "UFO 1972", and "UFO 1973".

Today is the release date for the UFO Technical Manual, and I've heard that people have been notified that their copy has shipped!

The news of a possible new UFO film has inspired yet another artist, check out the work of "arcas" on the Renderosity Digital Art Community -- Lt. Ellis, Moonbase Duo, Virginia Lake, Mobiles - All Operational.

The Gerry Anderson fan club FANDERSON has just mailed out issue 63 of their club magazine "FAB", which contains part 2 of their SHADO personnel Dossier. Here is an example of some pages with UFO content!

Variety is reporting that Matthew Gratzner has been selected to direct the proposed upcoming UFO movie.

Here is a piece of UFO-inspired fan art titled "The War is Over", by Franco Brambilla!

Originally announced in 2006, it looks like the UFO Technical Manual will finally be published next month!

Cinemaspy has an article about what an updated version of UFO might look like, which includes some interesting speculative artwork!

UFO art director and set designer Bob Bell has passed away.

Gerry Anderson talks a bit about the recently announced UFO movie here!

Gabrielle Drake will be appearing in the British soap opera "Coronation Street" beginning on June 5th -- here is a synopsis (with photos) of the June 5th episode.

Every few years we hear about a new TV series or film being made based on UFO (although none of them get anywhere in the end). Here is a brand new project being reported by VARIETY and SCIFI.COM

Actor Charles "Bud" Tingwell, who played Beaver James in the UFO episode MINDBENDER, has passed away at age 86.

Gabrielle Drake will be appearing in the British soap opera "Coronation Street". Here are some news stories about this, many of them mentioning UFO! one | two | three

In Scripts, added a transcription of the original script for the UFO episode MINDBENDER!

Today, Gerry Anderson celebrates his 80th birthday!

The latest issue of the Fanderson club magazine "FAB" features a photo of Col. Foster on the front cover, plus has part one of a "SHADO Personnel Dossier" (10 pages, character last names from A-H). Here is a publicity image of this issue.

On the hensel 3000 MySpace page, there are 2 songs in the music player of interest to UFO fans. The first is "Ed Straker", which contains audio samples from UFO. The second is "Confetti Check A-OK", which has lyrics based on this UFO episode.

Fanderson has announced another exclusive soundtrack CD -- this time for the TV series STINGRAY! This is significant for fans of UFO, as some episodes of UFO featured music that was reused from STINGRAY (for example, REFLECTIONS IN THE WATER and THE PSYCHOBOMBS).

RSI (Swiss TV) has a new video interview with Gito Santana (in English) that you can watch here! In it, Gito discusses his experiences working on UFO as an Alien.

The ISOSHADO website now has a short description of their recent event with Gito Santana (in Italian and English) plus photos!

In May, Silva Screen is releasing the CD "Stand By For Action - The Music of Barry Gray", which has 5 tracks from UFO!

Here is an online video (in Italian) from the recent ISOSHADO event with Gito Santana!

The Italian Section of SHADO will be holding an event with Gito Santana (who played an Alien in several episodes of UFO) on March 7th in Milan Italy!

Gabrielle Drake (who played Lt. Ellis in UFO) is currently doing a series of live performances in the UK with Robert Powell called "The Silver Screen"!

Wanda Ventham (who played Col. Virginia Lake in UFO) will be a guest at an upcoming convention for The Prisoner in the UK!

Issue 7 of the Gerry Anderson fanzine ANDERSONIC is now available at www.andersonic.co.uk!

Keith McNeill's Space Models Photography site features a Gerry Anderson page which has some nice model shots of UFO's Lunar Carrier, SHADO Mobile, SID, Moon Mobile, and Lunar Module!

The SucLaro Microsoft Flight Simulator website features a downloadable Skydiver simulator!

Here is a German language website devoted to UFO!

For those of you wondering whatever happened to the UFO Technical Manual that was originally announced in 2006, it is still in work! It has been taking longer than expected for Nick Foreman to complete his computer-generated models, due to demands from other projects. So the release date has been pushed back to at least spring 2009. Also, it's possible that the name of the book will change to "The UFO Visual Guide".

If you live in the northeast part of the USA and have been enjoying the high definition broadcasts of UFO on Family Room HD (on Cablevision cable TV), you won't be able to do this much longer -- all of the VOOM channels are shutting down within a month.

Sixteen 12 (formerly Product Enterprise) will be reissuing the UFO Interceptor & saucer plus two of the SHADO Mobile die-casts (with more accurate weathering) next year -- see their announcement here!

In Feburary 2009, there will be a auction of items belonging to Gerry Anderson. The catalog is available from Comet Miniatures, and features some promotional artwork for a proposed new series of UFO! See this Fanderson article for more information.

Fanderson members can now buy a new piece of exclusive UFO merchandise -- a SHADO keyring!

Starship Modeller has a review of the 16" SID model made by UNCL.

In the USA, DeepDiscount.com is having a big sale on the UFO Megaset -- you can now purchase all 26 episodes on DVD for less than $22!

On YouTube, episode 2 of the fan-made spoof video UFO:1999 ("SID's Return") is now available for viewing! Here is part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4!

The Surrey Herald has an obituary for Peter Gordeno which states that he died from liver cancer.

UFO director Ken Turner is considering selling two of his original UFO scripts (for the episodes CONFLICT and ORDEAL). A message regarding this can by found in the Eagle Transporter forum, although you must sign up to be a member of this forum to read it. Here is a link to the forum, and here is a link to the message.

Here is another obituary for Peter Gordeno, from "The Guardian".

Peter Gordeno (UFO's Captain Carlin) has passed away at age 69 -- here is an obituary from "The Independent".

As a reminder, it is now less than a month until the Barry Gray Centenary Concert in London. Tickets are available here, and there is a now promotional video on YouTube here!

In Conventions and Fan Activities, added some photos of Ed Bishop from UFOria (1988), Fanderson 91 (1991), and the 2002 Clacton Sci-Fi convention!

Added some photos to my New Photos page!

My photo pages have been updated with all of the "new photos" moved to their appropriate sections, plus all pages now use an updated gallery look. Check them out at Character Photos, Hardware Photos, and Behind the Scenes Photos!

Ron Haller's LEGO website features photos of a SHADO Mobile 1 and Control, a SHADO Mobile 3, and a SHADO Mobile Prototype, all made out of LEGOs!

Members of the Italian Section of SHADO recently toured various UFO filming locations. See their "then and now" photos here!

The fan-made spoof video "UFO:1999 - Breakified" is now available on YouTube!

It is being reported that Amazon.uk is now shipping the DVD "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun" (Region 2/PAL) and the book "Special Effects Superman, the Art and Effects of Derek Meddings"! Reportedly, the book primarily focuses on Derek Meddings' film career, although there is a section on his Gerry Anderson years.

On YouTube, there is yet another new UFO animation from the maker of the films INVADER and OUTERWORLD -- a UFO attack on a Destroyer ship!

For those of you who have wondered whatever happened to Suzanne Neve (who played Straker's ex-wife), I've received confirmation that two years ago she was teaching acting workshops at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London!

Issue 6 of the Gerry Anderson fanzine ANDERSONIC is now available at www.andersonic.co.uk!

In Germany, the September 2008 issue of WIDESCREEN VISION magazine includes a DVD featuring 2 episodes of UFO!