UFO experts say parts of Shropshire are “hotspots” for extra-terrestrial activity.
Martin Curtis, of Dorrington, near Shrewsbury, made a report to the Ministry of Defence, after he saw a large bright light and a few smaller ones hovering over Church Stretton this morning.
His sighting comes two weeks after 13 craft were reportedly seen zig-zagging over Clive Barracks, Tern Hill, near Market Drayton.
Corporal Mark Proctor, of the Royal Irish Regiment, saw the lights when he and two colleagues were on night patrol on June 7.
The sighting came just two hours before helicopter police officers reported an encounter near Cardiff.
Today, Phil Hoyle, head of the Shrewsbury-based UFO research and investigation unit, said there had been numerous other unexplained objects in the area.
Fishermen from Sutton, near Tern Hill, regularly reported unusual lights.
Mr Hoyle said the A5 in Shrewsbury - where a couple reported being followed by a light hours after Corporal Proctor’s sighting - was also a “hive of activity.”
He said: “The A5 is a hotspot for UFOs, there have been numerous sightings. We’ve had lorry drivers and all sorts of people claiming to have seen things.”
Nichola Pike said she had a similar experience on the A5 at Shrewsbury. Today, she said: “I saw the lights too, and they were actually spinning - definitely not UFO balloons or Chinese lanterns.
“They were actually spinning cubes of light. I saw them about 1am.”
She added: “I got out of my car, as did others to look at this. You could clearly see them spinning.”
Joe McGonagle, a UFO investigator from Stoke-on-Trent, said the Tern Hill sighting may have been caused by wedding celebrations, which have been linked to the Cardiff sighting, where a groom came forward and said his party may have been the reason the police helicopter reported seeing the lights.
He said: “I suspect what was seen was Chinese wedding lanterns.”
The sighting at Tern Hill is the latest of several.
On the same night, a Telford man who did not want to be named, said he and his wife saw a strange red object in the sky between 10pm and 11pm at their Muxton home, and Wendy Astley, of Pant, reported seeing strange lights above her home about four weeks ago.
No one from the barracks was available for comment.
See also: UFOs sighted over army barracks
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perhaps the shropshire star reporters should talk to the radar operators at the air bases,regarding the u.f.o’s,if they there they would of been seen on the radar,i have many reports from all over the world bout strange objects showing up on radar systems then matching them up with visual sightings,i am sure with todays technology the radar system is quite advanced,when you think about it the radar system can pick up the u.s.s.r air craft headin towards us,so imagine the range!!!!
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I am so glad soldiers at Tern Hill and other obviously sound folks are noticing our visitors monitoring us. I think what I saw in part of Gavin’s video is a an incinerator chimney?. The biggest siting of UFOs all together was after Horshima. They came to tell us we were pursuing a fatal poisonous course with nuclear pollution which they understood and abandoned millennia ago. That sighting record is locked up in the White House ( like Admiral Byrd’s diaries) but was meant to be a warning to us. Those UFOs came from inner earth (see Admiral Byrd’s confiscated diary reports about Arctic and Antarctic entry holes into the inner earth) – there is a shield over it mostly because the inhabitants are peaceful and don’t want us warring and polluting it with our greed and religious faction nonsense, but it has been satellite recorded when the shield was down and no cloud to hide it either. You notice that the observing visitors are monitoring areas where you can see an incinerator chimney – I think, and also we have been bombarded recently with aerosol chem-trails full of molds and toxic heavy metals and they are again coming to see what the hell we are playing at with our atmosphere and beautiful planet. I have seen enduring, widening, spreading chem-trails gridded like a chessboard ( airliners do not do that stuff!!) -over densely populated residential areas at low levels in many towns I visit, all over Staffordshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire, and all the way down to Swansea, from buses and train journeys. I have also watched the Sylphs patiently dismantling them and neutralising them, protecting us, but they are fed up with all this work you give them and may have called on other energy entities to come to monitor us and give us a warning that more down to earth folks can recognise, because not many people can recognise a Sylph. THE CHEM TRAILS NEAR SHREWSBURY MAY BE SPRAYED FROM SHAWBURY OR TERN HILL,- maybe that’s why they decided they needed to be seen by the Tern Hill soldiers especially, - to say “Hey, you know what you are doing is wrong, stop this poisoning”. Incinerators are the similar toxic junk, when we could have autoclaving and 100 percent recycling and plasma gasification instead of ‘Auschwitzes near you !’ They keep trying to wake us up to the truth !! - so we can have a ‘minister for cooperation instead of competition !!- and paradise reborn on planet earth. You could ask the soldiers if they know what they are releasing on their exercises, but soldiers are trained to obey without question and they would lose their jobs if they told you, even if they knew, and almost certainly we will be told that ‘its all just party balloons and Chinese lanterns for a wedding’ to calm us down and make us go back to sleep, but the stuff in the chem-trials is designed to make us so sick and dumb we wont be able to complain any more. Rip up your concrete and grow really organic veg we say, and go local with it!
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this planet could do with an incursion of friendly little green men,maybe if they could unlock the mysteries of the pyramids in egypt? prove once and for all that religeon is nothing but an old wives tale, then all these idiots can stop fighting and maybe start growing a bit more food and of course, find another fuel source to replace oil, and anyway who are we to assume sole possetion of the galaxy??
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I know one the people who made the first claims of UFO sightings (and alleged alien abductions) on the A5 in the 80’s and trust me she has absolutely NO credibility! They are all just sad little people with boring lives who want people to believe that they are important.
UFO Research and Investigation Unit don’t make me laugh!
Would the Shropshire Star please give the hoax UFO stories a break and finally get around to publishing some real news!
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All I will say is that it is pretty arogant of people to believe that humans on earth are the only intelligent lifeforms in the universe.
By my reckoning we on earth are light years behind any other supposed civilization in the galaxy today.
If you consider the thoery of evolution - we evolved from fish or apes whichever you prefer to believe - and that evolution took over 1000,000 years.
If the dinosaurs had not been wiped out then no doubt they would have evolved into the main intelligence on earth., hence earth would have had intelligence life a lot eariler than humans emerged.
Now imagine another planet in the galaxy where the dinosaurs were not wiped out - they would have reached a state of intelligence a lot earlier than us on earth, and it would be VERY realistic to assume they could travel easily from galaxy to galaxy.
Also another point - Consider all the teachnology we have developed over the last 50 years.
Dvds, Cds, the microchip, nuclear technology etc.
going further back the combustion engine, transport via air, etc
And now imagine how a normal guy from the 15th century would view this technology?
magic?
Aliens?
Already scientists can teleport a atom from 2 different rooms - soon the technology to teleport humans from one room to another will emerge. And perhaps time travel.
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On August 1 2008 we will view the solar eclipse. It is reported that we will see the mysterious Nibiru at the same time. Can anyone verify this ?
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What on earth is Nibiru????
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Why let the facts get in the way of a good story.
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alien abductions! what a load of old rubbish! I back scully one hundred per cent, also knowing of the person he is refering to. Having read reports of the incident which were made at the time of the ‘abductions’, there seem to be so many discrepancies in the three accounts, it amazes me that so many apparently intelligent people were taken in. Has the shropshire star really got nothing better to do than rake up stories dragged from the imaginations of people who have difficulty telling reality from fiction? Beam me up Scotty.
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