Eerie ... Kelvin Barbery’s picture from Cornwall
In view ... object flies across West Kilbride sky
Classic ... ’flying saucer’ spotted in Stirling
Posted on 02/20/2009 1:37:44 PM PST by JoeProBono
THE number of UFO sightings soared by 40 per cent last year.The MoD logged 135 reports – including one of two objects a MILE wide.Two airline pilots spotted them over Guernsey, giving the sighting credibility.One, Ray Bowyer, 50, said: “I’m not saying it was from another world, but I’ve never seen anything like it in all my years of flying.”Nick Pope, who headed the Ministry of Defence’s UFO investigation team from 1991-1994, said: “This sighting is dynamite. The UFO was over a mile long and it was tracked on radar. “It was the most interesting UFO report the MoD has received in several years.” The ministry revealed other sightings included cigar-shaped objects, lights in the sky and classic ‘saucer’ craft.
Abducted
They were lodged from all over England, Scotland and Wales at all times of the year.
One witness in Rotherham, South Yorks, said they saw “a bright triangular object in the sky. It was stationary at first and then moved”.
And a UFO-spotter in Duxford, Cambs, said: “Fifty objects, each with a single orange light. They gathered before ascending directly upwards.”
Meanwhile, a camper claimed a spaceship fleet abducted his dog and swiped his tent near Cardiff.
And five weeks ago, The Sun told how Kelvin Barbery took an amazing picture near Falmouth, Cornwall, of a ‘flying saucer’.
The original reports and any internal papers detailing the MoD’s probes in response to sightings are kept secret.
The publication of the 2007 figures came as the MoD prepares to release its archive of 10,000 sightings since the 1950s.
Eerie ... Kelvin Barbery’s picture from Cornwall
In view ... object flies across West Kilbride sky
Classic ... ’flying saucer’ spotted in Stirling
The top one looks like a kid’s kite.
What are they putting in the water over in the UK these days?
..and in India.
UFO != Alien Space Ship
UFO means Unidentifed Flying Object. Unidentified means we don’t know what it is. Assuming it is an alien space ship is jumping to an unsupported conclusion (just as my assuming it is balloon filled with helium is jumping to an unsupported conclusion.)
Sorry about the dog, but the tent swiping is funny.
Funny, in today’s context I thought UFO meant Un Funded Obligation — such as the “stimulus” bill. :-/
FANTASTIC!
Funny thing is there have been a lot of UFO sightings that have all been consistent that the ufo appears to be a Blue Police Box? strange, very strange.
I watched UFO Hunters on the History Channel the other night and I kept wondering if I was watching the SciFi channel or something. I hope the History Channel fact checks that series because they sure made it seem as if UFOs are real.
Every time I see a UFO hunters episode on, I have to turn off that channel for a month, because it’s nothing but space monsters that don’t exist and cryptozoology. It got tedious when that channel was all WWII all the time, but the space monster hoax BS is unwatchable. Leave that stuff for George Noory.
“Kelvin Barbery’s picture from Cornwall” is a motion-blurred seagull. The UFO next to the ferris wheel is the instrument cluster of the car the photographer was in, reflected in the windshield.
Don’t know about the others but not getting too excited.
If you haven’t already, see posts 8 & 10 (enhanced versions).
I kind of like the cryptozoology programs. Probably because I like taking pictures with trail cameras. But, those programs don’t seem to claim or prove the existence of bigfoot or whatever. This last UFO episode I saw, however, was making me wonder if those were real people and real 911 recordings or if they were using actors and fake audio/video.
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