Mystery sighting ‘may be a UFO’

Thursday 3rd July 2008, 11:22AM BST

sunset.jpgA pilot today claimed strange orange lights over south Shropshire could have been a UFO.

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David Bemand said he was amazed to see the lights over Ludlow on Monday at about 10pm.

Mr Bemand said he was at home in Luston with his wife Michelle and a friend when he glanced out and saw the lights.

“At first I thought it was a hot air balloon, but we are reasonably familiar with what they look like. Apart from that it was too late in the evening for a balloon,” he said.

Mr Bemand, who has held a private pilot’s licence for 22 years, said it was also too orange to be a helicopter.

He added: “We went outside to have a look at it then it either went away from us directly or got smaller and disappeared.”

He suggested it could be put down to a bizarre weather phenomenon.

The sighting comes just five days after cube-shaped UFOs were spotted across the county.

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5 Comments

  1. Phil said: Jul 3rd, 2008 at 12:12

    Who thinks that we are being primed for a invasion by aliens from another galaxy?

    Either that or its the funny season – the amount of UFO stories not only in Shropshire but all over the UK this past month has been unbelievable

    13 UFO’s spotted flying over Liverpool
    UFO over Cardiff bay
    The Shropshire army base event.

    Another theory could be that it is time travellers from the future taking day trips to the past.

    Apparently a generator was turned on in Holland earlier this year which (I don’t really understand this) would make if possible for people in the future to travel back to this moment in time

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  2. Nick said: Jul 3rd, 2008 at 23:20

    I don’t know about cube shaped objects, but these balls of light being reported sound like something known as “ball lightning”, which I believe occurs wherever there are fault lines are in the ground, balls of electric light escape from gaps in the ground (I believe).

    I wonder, with sightings such as this across the country, if this could be an indication of an upcoming large scale earthquake in this country.

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  3. Nemesis said: Jul 4th, 2008 at 13:40

    Or too many people misinterpret simple fire lanterns as UFOs…

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  4. jessie said: Oct 14th, 2008 at 01:07

    When pilots and astronauts all say they have seen something you begin to wonder if aliens are real????

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  5. Elroy said: Dec 4th, 2008 at 19:47

    Hi,
    I work in a real small community in northern arizona. Last evening ( 12/03/2008) at approximately 6:29 pm, I witnesses 3 bright lights in a triangular formation growing in intensity. This only lasted about 25 seconds. The top light turned into a regular star. This is the second time I’ve seen this formation.
    Did anyone see something?
    Thanks.

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