London UFO crash

The London UFO crash was the name BBC News gave to an incident in March 2006 which saw the destruction of Big Ben at the hands of a UFO which seemingly crashed into the River Thames in central London. (TV: Aliens of London/World War Three)

Elton Pope, while shopping for a suit, was among the bystanders that witnessed the crash in London. He initially mistook the ship for a plane. (TV: Love & Monsters)

According to one account, the crash took place on 28 June 2006, (PROSE: Operation London) though another dated the destruction of 10 Downing Street to sometime prior to 26 May 2006. (PROSE: Number Ten Pays Tribute to UNIT)

Aftermath and legacy
Though UNIT's alien experts who gathered at Downing Street were all killed by electrocution by the Slitheen family (TV: World War Three) UNIT officers dealing with the situation where ignorant to the Slitheen, (PROSE: Operation London, Number Ten) though the organisation would later be aware of the Slitheen's role in this incident, which was recalled by Sam Bishop when he confronted another group of Slitheen with Christina de Souza. (AUDIO: Death on the Mile)

Repair work on Big Ben lasted as late as Christmas 2006. (TV: The Christmas Invasion)

Whilst listing beings they had encountered in their travels with the Doctor, Rose cited "Slitheen in Downing Street" to Sarah Jane Smith. (TV: School Reunion) This would later be recalled by Sarah Jane whilst she was facing Slitheen who used Coldfire Construction in a bid to drain the Sun's energy. These Slitheen admitted that they enacted this scheme on Earth in retaliation for the loss of their family, in what they described as "just a routine job". Upon hearing this, Sarah Jane suspected that she knew what or "Who happened." Sarah Jane ultimately thwarted the Slitheen plot, and saw that UNIT tended to the Coldfire facilities. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen)

Following his election in 2008, British Prime Minister "Harold Saxon", actually, cited the destruction of Big Ben as an example of an alien event which the British government failed to disclose to the public. (TV: The Sounds of Drums)

Dram and Ecktosca Fel Fotch Heppen-Bar Slitheen, who identified as historians of their family, cited the failed scheme as the point where their ancestor's fortunes went downhill, though the historians celebrated the failures as well as the achievements. Following the incident, the Slitheen abandoned that line of work and spent some time chizzle-waxing to make ends meet. By 2501, Dram and Ecktosca had studied the "industrious" Jocrassa and his compatriots, hearing word that their compression fields were recovered from the wreckage of the "Earthly explosion", stored in a government stockpile and filed away, waiting for the day that humans could actually comprehend the technology involved and make something of it. Their trail led them to Justicia. (PROSE: The Monsters Inside)

As late as 3764, the Ninth Doctor was recognised for his part in ridding the galaxy of "the Slitheen scourge" by the Raxacoricofallapatorians. (COMIC: Doctormania)

Parallel universes
In a parallel universe, Rose Tyler found that no spaceship crashed into Big Ben. (AUDIO: The Endless Night) She later determined that the ship did not appear in at least one other universe. (AUDIO: The Last Party on Earth)