November 26, 1977 –
The Southern Television (an ITV broadcasting license holder for the South and South-East of England,) broadcast interruption, also known as the Vrillon Incident, was a hijacking of the British television broadcast on this date.
An unidentified voice claiming to be Vrillon, a representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command, interrupted the ITN news broadcast on Southern Television for six minutes, starting at 5:12 pm. The broadcast was seen by millions of viewers in southern England.
