Hot on the heels of the Flying Dorito and Inverted Meat Dish, spaceship spotters have been contacting the Express & Star in their droves to share their strange stories of the skies. Tales have included a hyperspeed bright light darting across the Moxley skyline and three bright oranges orbs hanging silently over Bloxwich.
It is almost an article of faith among many ufologists that, of course, the ufos are piloted by beings from distant star systems. Some go further and make sweeping statements about Pleiadean beamships and Sirian motherships. Sirius and all the stars in the Pleiades cluster are, by the way, only a fraction of the age of our Earth and Sun.
In this farming community where nightfall usually brings clear, starry skies, residents are abuzz over reported sightings of what many believe is a UFO. Several dozen people insist they have seen a large silent object with bright lights flying low and fast.
"It was positively, absolutely nothing from these parts" - Steve Allen, a freight company owner and pilot, who said the object he saw last week was a mile long and half a mile wide.
Japans air force has never spotted a UFO, but the countrys top government spokesman said Tuesday he definitely believes they exist. Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura was speaking to reporters in response to demands lodged by an opposition lawmaker for an inquiry into frequent reports of UFO sightings. The government said in an official reply that it had not confirmed sightings of unidentified flying objects believed to be from outer space.
A group of former pilots and government officials has called on the US government to re-open an investigation into claims of UFO sightings. Project Blue Book, run by the US Air Force, was stopped in the late 1960s. The group, which includes former military officers from seven countries, all say they have seen a UFO or have conducted research into the phenomenon. However, the Air Force says nothing has happened in the past four decades to justify resuming investigations.
The mystery surrounding a string of UFO sightings in the West Berkshire skies may have been solved by reporters at newburytoday.co.uk. Reports of low flying orange lights have surfaced regularly over the last two years. A Swindon taxi driver dropping a fare in Hungerford earlier this summer spotted four bright orange shapes in the sky, and last September a triangle of glowing lights was photographed over Greenham Common. Witnesses saw them hover for three minutes before speeding off into the night sky. When we reported yet another sighting of orange orbs above Greenham in mid-August, newburytoday.co.uk received an enigmatic letter claiming to solve the UFO mystery. The package included a UFO Hot Air Balloon - a flying lantern designed to trick unsuspecting alien hunters into thinking ET was dropping by.
Forty years ago on Oct. 4, 1967, RCMP officers responded to a report of a crash landing of an unidentified object near Shag Harbour. They observed a pale yellow light bobbing on the surface for a while before it sank. Government documents detailing the event said not a trace of the crash object was found. The event continues to fascinate many today. To celebrate the anniversary, a newly formed society has organized the Lighthouse & UFO's 40th Anniversary of the Shag Harbour Incident. Cindy Nickerson is the chair of the Shag Harbour Incident Society, a group formed last fall to work towards the construction of a permanent site for the display the history of Shag Harbour, including the UFO incident. The societys temporary museum is located opposite R & D Nickerson Fisheries Ltd. in Shag Harbour and has received close to 1250 visitors since opening in mid-June.
There were no laser blasts in the battle between believers and non-believers at a UFO conference in Alberta this weekend, but plenty of sharp words were fired between the two camps. Stanton Friedman, a nuclear physicist who maintains that some UFOs are alien spacecraft, told nearly 200 delegates during the conference's opening lecture Friday night at the Telus World of Science in Edmonton that journalists and scientists are ignorant of the evidence supporting the fact that interstellar travellers have visited.
It's the weird and wonderful place where the men in grey suits from Whitehall meet the little green men from Mars. The Ministry of Defence has for the first time opened its real-life 'X Files', detailing how its experts have examined photographs of UFOs hovering over the UK. While the images range from the baffling to the risible, there is no doubting the seriousness that officials reserve for the issue of extraterrestrial life. Correspondence between the MoD and members of the public who report sightings of strange objects reveals that Whitehall mandarins remain "totally open-minded" about the existence of UFOs. The letters - obtained by Scotland on Sunday through the Freedom of Information Act - confirm that the MoD has a procedure of scrambling fighter planes to confront any unidentified craft or object that enters UK airspace.