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Photos: UFO sightings in Britain rocket
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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.


TOPICS: UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: ufo
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To: faq
I watched several of the cryptozoology episodes. They hinted that they found bigfoot DNA on the nailboard in the Pacific northwest. Why haven't they published the results in a peer reviewed journal? Something as big as mapping a partial bigfoot genome would be make Nature if it were real.

You know why they haven't? Because it's bunk. It's not history. Put that stuff on the sci-fi channel.
21 posted on 02/20/2009 4:17:07 PM PST by mysterio
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22 posted on 02/20/2009 4:37:00 PM PST by uglybiker (AAAAAAH!!! I'm covered in BEES!)
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To: JoeProBono

“They were lodged from all over England, Scotland and Wales at all times of the year.”

And in ever case, they were the tales of single witnesses who’s reports could not be corroborated. Years ago in Ireland there were thousands of witness reports of seeing Leprechauns, down even to the point of having conversations with them and even catching them on occasion. If the number of reported cases of UFOs is considered good evidence, then Leprechauns also exist.


23 posted on 02/20/2009 5:02:09 PM PST by yazoo
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24 posted on 02/20/2009 5:05:24 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

What’s your point. Those were UFO (UNIDENTIFIED flying objects) sightings. The word UNIDENTIFIED is a critical bit of information. Unless you can provide data that identifies them, the data is pointless.


25 posted on 02/20/2009 5:27:04 PM PST by yazoo
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This looks like an ultralight aircraft...


26 posted on 02/21/2009 7:10:36 AM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
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