Admiral of the Fleet Peter John Hill-Norton, Baron Hill-Norton GCB ( 8 February 1915 – 16 May 2004 ) was a senior Royal Navy officer.

Born the son of Captain Martin John Norton RFC and Margery Birnie Norton ( née Hill ), Peter John Norton ( he changed his surname to Hill-Norton in 1931 ) was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth and the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

After the end of the War Hill-Norton became gunnery officer on the cruiser HMS Nigeria in the South Atlantic and then, having been promoted to commander on 31 December 1947, he was posted to the naval ordnance division at the Admiralty.

Hill-Norton was made a life peer as Baron Hill-Norton, of South Nutfield in the County of Surrey in February 1979, and took an active role at the House of Lords as a crossbencher.

Admiral Lord Hill-Norton, the former Chief of the UK Defence Staff, argued that an incident like this at a nuclear weapons base was necessarily of national security interest.

" Hill-Norton commented, " Either large numbers of people were hallucinating, and for an American Air Force nuclear base this is extremely dangerous, or what they say happened did happen, and in either of those circumstances there can only be one answer, and that is that it was of extreme defence interest.

Hill-Norton served during the Second World War initially as a gunnery instructor at HMS Excellent and then as gunnery officer on the cruiser HMS Cairo operating on the Western Approaches and in the North Sea and taking part in the Norwegian Campaign in Spring 1940.

Notable persons to have publicly stated that UFO evidence is being suppressed include Senator Barry Goldwater, Admiral Lord Hill-Norton ( former NATO head and chief of the British Defence Staff ), Brigadier-General Arthur Exon ( former commanding officer of Wright-Patterson AFB ), Vice-Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter ( first CIA director ), astronauts Gordon Cooper and Edgar Mitchell, former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer, and the 1999 French COMETA report by various French generals and aerospace experts.

* Admiral of the Fleet The Lord Hill-Norton 1970 – 1971

As a member of the House of Lords, Lord Hill-Norton asked Her Majesty's Government: " Whether they are aware of any involvement by Special Branch in the investigation of the 1980 Rendlesham Forest Incident ".

USAF photographs of the marks discovered by researcher Georgina Bruni were sent to the MoD by Lord Hill-Norton in 2001 and released under the Freedom of Information Act in 2007.

The late Lord Hill-Norton, ( Admiral of the Fleet and former Chief of the Defence Staff of the UK ) also believed that a UFO landed at Rendlesham and repeatedly questioned the UK Government on the issue.

* Admiral Sir Peter Hill-Norton, 1967

Prokofieff was able to adjust his creative personality to a swiftly changing world without losing his particular force and direction.

Then he was striding across the room, his thoughts confused but the worry building swiftly inside him as he snatched up the note.

He was swiftly discharged, officially on medical grounds, but it is suggested that a doctor who noticed his reluctance to join the Armed Forces deliberately failed the medical as a favour.

Early in the following season the Addicks were linked with a foreign takeover, but this was swiftly denied by the club.

Trotskyists argue that the party was doomed to its present character, that of petty-bourgeois nationalism in the 1920s, because of the near-annihilation of the workers ' movement in the KMT betrayal of 1927, which was made possible by Stalin's order that the Communists join with the KMT in a centrist coalition, effectively disarming it, which opportunity the KMT swiftly exploited to defeat the communist revolution.

Diderot, who had been under police surveillance since 1747, was swiftly identified as the author ... and was imprisoned for some months at Vincennes, where he was visited almost daily by Rousseau, at the time his closest and most assiduous ally.

** Council of Siena ( 1423 – 1424 ) addressed church reform. Not numbered as it was swiftly disbanded.

The truth, in his hands, was swiftly converted from what it was, to what it should have been.

A treaty was swiftly agreed between du Parquet and the indigenous Chief Kairouane to peacefully partition the island between the two communities.

After the devastating 1354 earthquake, the Greek city of Gallipoli was almost abandoned, but swiftly reoccupied by Turks from Anatolia, the Asiatic side of the straits, making Gallipoli the first Ottoman position in Europe, and the staging area for their expansion across the Balkans.

Heiner Müller's cutting-edge drama " The Hamletmachine " was first produced in Paris by director Jean Jourdheuil in 1979 and swiftly became a classic of postmodern drama.

" A copy of the pamphlet was sent to every MP, and sold so well that it swiftly required reprinting.

The progress made by Gaddafi's government in improving relations with the Western world was swiftly set back by the regime's authoritarian crackdown on protests that began the following month.

Conditions improved slightly upon the death of Peter II, and Euler swiftly rose through the ranks in the academy and was made professor of physics in 1731.

Spurius Lucretius was swiftly elected interrex ; he was prefect of the city anyway.

The double-digit lead which had still been intact in opinion polls at the start of 1981 was swiftly wiped out, and by the end of October the opinion polls were showing the Alliance ahead of Labour.

The usual method was to approach a target stealthily, strike with surprise and then retire swiftly.

Neither a trained theologian nor skilled in the business of the Curia, he was tactful and prudent in a difficult era, but Ludwig Pastor, who passes swiftly over his pontificate, says, " The numerous endeavours for unity made during this period form one of the saddest chapters in the history of the Church.

He studied at Perugia and Padua, was ordained a priest and swiftly appointed Bishop of Cremona, in 1560, in time to participate in the sessions of the Council of Trent from 1561 to 1563.

Orestes was captured near Piacenza on 28 August 476 and swiftly executed.

The first water caterpillar was developed by Desblancs in 1782 and propelled by a steam engine.

The V-1, often referred to as flying bomb, contained a gyroscopic guidance system and was propelled by a simple pulse-jet engine, the sound of which gave it the nickname of " buzz bomb ".

; Springald: The springald's design is similar to that of the Ballista's, in that it was effectively a crossbow propelled by tension.

After 1896 the system was changed to one on which a motor car was added to each train to maneuver at the terminals, while en route, the trains were still propelled by the cable.

The VAX was a best-seller, with over 400, 000 sold, and its sales through the 1980s propelled the company into the second largest in the industry.

New Thought as a movement had no single origin, but was rather propelled along by a number of spiritual thinkers and philosophers and emerged through a variety of religious denominations and churches, particularly the Unity Church, Religious Science, and Church of Divine Science.

In 1940, he was given the leading role in Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey, again choreographed by Robert Alton, and this role propelled him to stardom.

Most of this work was in small craft propelled by both sail and oar ; maneuvering larger sail-powered vessels in uncharted waters was generally impractical and dangerous.

This predominantly religious movement was propelled by social issues and strengthened Czech national awareness.

The dance was propelled to wide visibility after it was featured in movies such as Swing Kids in 1993 and in television commercials for GAP in 1998.

Despite using advanced Jet and rocket propelled aircraft, it was overwhelmed by Allied numbers and a lack of trained pilots and fuel.

The ship shows a combination of building styles and was propelled by oars.

Floats were occasionally propelled from within by concealed oarsmen, but the practice was abandoned because of the high incidence of drowning when the lightweight and unstable frames capsized.

The single " Electric " was a hit across Europe and propelled My Truth to number two position in Sweden.

The second was from the mid-20th century when the discovery of vast oil deposits propelled it into a key economic and geo-political role.

It was propelled by means of oars.

The triode vacuum tube was the first electronic amplification device, which propelled the electronics age forward, by enabling amplified radio technology and long-distance telephony.

It was propelled by a three-cylinder Brotherhood engine, using compressed air at around and driving two propellers, and was designed to self-regulate its course and depth as far as possible.

John Ericsson invented an electrically propelled torpedo in 1873 ; it was powered by a cable from an external power source, as batteries of the time had insufficient capacity.

*, the first to be steam propelled, was an iron, side-wheeled steamer

* September 6 – Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol, Catalan intellectual, artist and engineer, inventor of the first combustion engine-driven submarine, which was propelled by an early form of air-independent propulsion ( b. 1819 ).