UFOs in the news

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[HandoGod]

Cool post, thx

[alan1254]

for sooth , will it be so that the cowardly skyward demonds will perchance believe that we all converse so?

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THE REAL X FILES
For the first time, the MoD reveals number of unexplained 'alien' sightings.. 97 last year
By Lori Campbell And Sophie Borland
www.Sundaymirror.Co.Uk
05/08/2007

The truth is out there, so they say. But now it could be a lot closer to hand since Britain's real-life X-Files have been opened for the first time - spookily revealing details of HUNDREDS of UFO sightings. Last year alone the Ministry of Defence logged nearly 100 eyewitness reports of strange unidentified flying objects whizzing through our skies - and they're all listed. The secret log - made public under the Freedom of Information Act - details UFO sightings that range from the laughable to the seriously baffling... flying saucers, orange fireballs streakin across the atmosphere, a spinning silver pyramid and even an alien.

Utter tosh, some might say. But not the UFO experts, who are excited to finally have their hands on a log of sightings from as recently as last year. Normally, it takes 30 years for classified records of UFO sightings to be released, by which time they have been long dismissed. But now the experts can view files from 1998 to 2006 that give the date, time and location of the sightings as well as a short description.

Among the list of unexplained phenomena reported in the last 12 months was a "mothership with two smaller orbs" flying above Barlaston in Staffordshire, which was witnessed again five days later. Then there was a weird oblong "shaped like a scooter" spotted in the sky above Stevenage, Beds. A huge "black square" was seen hanging from the clouds in St Tudwal's Islands, Wales, while a "spinning object with triangular fins" was recorded above Macclesfield. And a "ball of fire like a comet without a tail" was reported hovering over Hardock, Merseyside. But that may just have been Stevie G scoring for Liverpool.

The most bizarre sighting of the 97 received by the MoD in 2006 was "an alien" seen by two witnesses outside their kitchen window in Hastings, East Sussex. Other reports to the MoD would appear easier to explain, such as a "triangle shape that had lights on that looked similar to a helicopter". Perhaps the aliens were a little miffed at the reaction of Earthlings last year because in the previous year - 2005 - there had been 31 more sightings logged. They included a "black cigar-shaped object that looked like a disc side-on", which sped through the sky "faster than a fighter jet", and an orange ball of light with "spiderish legs".

The MoD keeps the log of strange objects in the sky because of possible implications for national security. Officials analyse many of them in detail and while most have a rational explanation, others have left them stumped. A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority said: "Sometimes UFOs are weather balloons, sometimes they are military jets, sometimes they are optical illusions... But sometimes we just don't know what they are."

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97 in a year? I would have expected a lot more than that for some reason...

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