County UFO sighting recalled
Wednesday 29th July 2009, 9:36AM BST.
Watch the video here: Sunday Night Show Shropshire UFO report
A Shropshire man whose close encounter with a UFO in the county was investigated by MoD top brass today claimed he feared something relating to the incident would happen in 2012.
Darren Perks, of Belle Vue, Shrewsbury, was 16 when he spotted a mysterious black triangle in the sky on his way home from work in the Harlescott area of the town.
The former military serviceman kept quiet about the sighting for many years until he found out about investigations carried out by Nick Pope, a UFO desk officer for the Ministry of Defence from 1991 to 1994.
Mr Pope carried out a probe into reports of a “vast, triangular-shaped craft” firing a narrow beam of light on to the ground and emitting a low-frequency humming sound. It was spotted flying over RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury on the night of March 30, 1993.
Earlier this year Mr Perks, 31, relived the sighting on Australia’s Sunday Night show.
He recalled the UFO as being about 200ft in length and 15ft to 20ft in diameter.
“It was very defined, blocked out the stars, and was structured. On the two rear points of the triangle I noticed a faint red or orange-coloured glow and at the front the triangle was omitting a brilliant white light, and this was moving back and forth as if was looking for something.”
Mr Perks added: “The triangle was moving very slowly, I would say about walking speed, and I could hear nothing but a very low humming sound that was irritating to hear.
“I also felt warm and the sense of being watched – or at least whoever or whatever was controlling the triangle knew I was watching it.
“I estimated that I had been watching this craft for about two minutes when all of sudden it shot off to the north at incredible speed, making no sounds at all.”
Mr Perks said he had been left with a feeling that the craft would return.
“Ever since the incident I have had a feeling of knowing that the craft will come back, it makes me feel uneasy but at the same time I want to know where it was from and why it was here.
“I can’t explain, but I have in my head that in 2012 something is going to happen and that it’s linked to what I witnessed. It’s a feeling that never goes away and when I go back to the spot where I witnessed the incident I get an overwhelming sense of uneasiness to this day.”
Mr Perks said he believed that the UK and American governments were aware of the craft but were keeping it hidden from the public.
Mr Perks said he also believed that the sightings of a black v-shaped craft witnessed over the Sutton Farm area of Shrewsbury and near Oswestry over the weekend were similar to what he saw.
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So Mr Perks ‘has it in his head’ that something is going to happen in 2012. Who knows what else he has in his head?
It’s hardly evidence is it? Are you really that short of news Shropshire Star? Or is it that somewhere amongst your staff you have an employee who is determined to get his/her geeky hobby on these pages as often as possible?
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Readers may be interested to know that the fourth most popular item on Shropshirestar.com yesterday was – you’ve guessed it – a UFO story.
May I suggest that if you do not happen to like or agree with UFO stories you don’t read them? There’s plenty of other content here.
Meanwhile, why not follow the link and watch the actual report? It’s quite interesting.
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2012..The Big One! Read ‘Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Ecstasy’ by Geoff Stray.
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i think the fella is right, some people just don’t have an open mind, my wife saw that strange craft on saturday night along with her four friends, and they all agree it was’nt miltary or civilian, one of them is in the RAF herself so she is crediable.
so what is it then peter???? one of your toy airplanes you did’nt glue together properly?
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Ed,
No one is disagreeing that he saw something in the sky. The problem here is the huge leap a person takes from what they see to how they then interpret that. A person saw something in the sky they didnt know what it is and now believes that something strange is going to happen in 2012?? Peter is right in his statement, it is not evidence it is nonsensical.
I would think most star readers have an open mind. What they also have is the ability to be logical and rational, and require proper evidence. This story does not give any and that is why so many readers get fed up and make comments like Peter’s! We’re trying to make people aware that things should be questioned logically. I doubt many would deny that in the vast expanse of space, chances are there is other intelligent life.
Another point i’d like to throw into the mix here is that these sightings took place over RAF bases. Aviation technology is decades ahead of what the public are actually told exists. There is a high likelihood of other UK/US owned aircraft using our airspace which doesnt look or fly like any of the well known conventional planes. However, the MOD certainly aren’t going to tell us about that.
Andrew – UFO’s might be a hot topic on here, but how many of readers are those like Peter and I who can’t believe the obsession this paper has with them, and who hope we’re going to get some credible accounts of sightings (IE more than one person detailing a sighting) /proper photographs/some more scientific analysis on the subject.
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Kelly why is that you are talking to everyone as if you know it all? You must be a psychologist. Well opinions opinions opinions everyone should keep them to theirselves!!!
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kelly: could i just point out that at present no “new” miltary experimental aircraft by law are allowed to be test flown over any built up areas which includes shropshire.
if you actually take the time to read reviews and look at footage regarding this subject you will see, that not only does it still remain, unexplained, but that the military in both the uk and the united states do not know who operates or where this craft comes from.
the MOD would not go to lengths to investigate such matters if thet were not concerned.
everybody has an opinion and the right to an open mind on this subject.
the bottom line is that nobody knows whats going on and until we do then this subject will remain highly criticised.
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can i just quote kelly: “(IE more than one person detailing a sighting) /proper photographs/some more scientific analysis on the subject”
if i’m not mistaken our film that was on australian tv covers this, oh and not to mention various websites with credable police and military witness accounts on this subject from all over the world.
enough said.
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If the star wanted opinions to be kept to themselves they wouldnt have put in the comment box! … Everyone is welcome to there’s. Debates are healthy.
I am however not the one deciding a person is a psychologist on the basis of one comment!
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If the star wanted opinions to be kept to themselves they wouldnt have put in the comment box! … Everyone is welcome to there’s. Debates are healthy.
I am however not the one deciding a person is a psychologist on the basis of one comment!
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Peter may be right or wrong for all i know but his belief about strange happening come 2012 is not too prophetic. We earthmen for sure do have some intelligent neighbours that need some friendly handshakes if so, they should leave their closet and spying tricks. Do not forget that for security reasons, US/UK may be in for future surprises on supper secret aircraft developments. who knows, the cold war may ressurete so it pays to think ahead.If all these dont jell then, it is science fron Africa.
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If any of the commentators here knew how to spell the word “credible”, I’d find their views marginally more credible.
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It makes a nice change for this sort of story to be repored sensibly.
There are thousands of UFO sightings every year unyet the Government says that tey are not investigated. They are hiding things about these visitors but people are so brainwashed by the TV that they don’t care.
It’s important that these issues are brought to the publics attention. What if the Government is hiding secret technlogies that could make our lives better? Do you think they’d give the population technologies of “free energy” or “miracle like health fixes”….? I don’t think so – They want people to be slaves to the system without realising it – they want you to work hard, pay taxes on everything. Die on time.
The Governments have got these things.
They have been hiding things for decades.
Don’t believe me?
Do your research before forming an ill-educated opinion.
Start by googling “the disclosure project” – A group (500+) of ex-sevicemen who are trying to expose what the governments have been keeping secret. These people witnessed things. Hear their stories, old war veterans, people in charge of nuclear missiles – not silly people.
Stop being brainwashed into thinking this is all science fiction.
And if you are skeptical after doing some research I’ll leave you with one thing to contemplate…
We live in a world where eye-witness reports can put people in jail… in a world where people blindly believe in God (without any evidence)… Unyet people doubt the existence of Aliens/UFOs despite the thousands of sightings…? Something doesn’t add up!!!
There have been over 11,000 reported sightings of UFOs since the fifties…
How many sightings of God?
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finally someone who takes sense and can see what the guy in the report and others think.
something is going on and for people who ask for more evidence could i direct them to hundreds of accounts on the web not to mention news sights etc. for example http://www.phoenixlights.com
no matter how heavily this is crticised this matter is important and one day the truth will be out and we will all see for ourselves.
fairplay to the guy for telling his story, becuase if he didn’t who would? it certainly would’nt be the military or authorities would it.
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Andrew (Owen),
Just because something gets lots of hits, doesn’t mean that people are crying out to see even more of it. I susect that people are looking at it with the thought in mind of ‘Oh dear, what sensationalist speculative nonsense is the Shropshire Star printing now?!’
This is a provincial newspaper, not the National Enquirer or the Sunday Sport. News is what we want, not idle specualtion based upon someone’s odd hobby.
And Jamie, I don’t believe your conspiracy theories, I don’t believe aliens are visiting us, oh, and I don’t believe in God either.
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Okay, then. Peter has decided he does not like UFO stories. Therefore there should be no more UFO stories.
Peter does not like conspiracy theories. Therefore there should be no conspiracy theory stories.
And Peter doesn’t believe in god. Better disband all religion then.
Still, at least he’s not trying to impose his views on to other people.
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peter: do you actually use the internet and have you actually bothered to at least research this just a little bit.
if you manage to get away from your toy planes i suggest you do, becuase you will see that you might the one who is wrong here.
i’m supporting what darren say’s something has to be going on, i’ve looked at the disclosure project and i agree with it. people just don’t make these things up.
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these reports should not go ignored, these kind of sightings are happening all over the world aswell as the united states and the uk.
people do not waste time setting up websites and going to conferences to talk about ufo’s and aliens. there is something big going on regarding ufo’s and space and it’s only a matter of time before we find out what it is.
shropshire star you need more reports like this to make other people aware of whats happening.
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Melanie,
Toy planes? What on earth are you talking about?
I’m afraid I struggled to make sense of your poorly written and punctuated post.
The internet is a vast repository, full of excellent stuff and full of nonsense at the same time. Clearly, you are somewhat less discerning
about the bits you believe than I am.
And Mark – I don’t mind the odd UFO story but this newspaper is obsessed with them. If people want to believe in fairies in the sky, whether deities or little green men, that’s OK by me, but please don’t try and persuade me that ‘silly season’ stories such as this represent any sort of evidence.
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peter: clearly you are shallow minded, how can you say that all the info on the internet is full of nonsense when reports on ufo’s come from valid sources like military generals, and govement staff members????
and as for silly season stories, well how come the MOD keep and still keep a section open for investigation into this matter which is fully staffed 365 days of the year.
there is clearly some people who just want to critisize this and don’t have anything better to moan about.
i’m afraid that the ufo subject is big, and will never go away whatever you think.
to be perfectly honest it is actually quite interesting, more interesting than toy planes and train spotting!
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can i just point out that currently in the states, president obama’s health policy reviews etc have been stopped at the moment because of some sort of unknown technology that has been used in health equipment. technology that is far more advanced.
if you don’t believe me google it. it’s true.
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Peter,
Try not to be too naive. I know it’s difficult; afterall you’ve been brain-washed by the media from birth but try not to make yourself sound daft by rubbishing the evidence of the likes of the ex-military personnel from the Disclosure Project – or the likes of John Lear (the only person to hold all FAA certificates and who’s father invented the Lear jet).
I refer you back to my previous post.
Probably best to do your research before making daft comments; or not comment at all.
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i’ve looked the obama thing up it’s here:
http://www.examiner.com/x-3766-Phoenix-UFO-Examiner~y2009m6d25-Key-to-Obama-health-plan-blocked-by-UFO-truth-embargo
very interesting!
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we must beware of ufo’s in august 2012. i predict long pointy items sailing over east london, watched by 1000′s. pray what are they, yes olympic javelins
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21/12/2012…
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people need to look at the diclosure project, it says it all, this guy and others are right, something is going on and we need to know.
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Well, people need to consider, the sighting was over an RAF base. Just type stealth plane into google and you’ll see some triangular aircraft.
Do you honestly think that there is another intelligent race which has mastered interstellar travel but just hovers over and doesn’t make any contact?
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Jack – I don’t know if you’ve noticed but our “stealth” aircraft make big whoosing noises as a result of their massive jet angines and have to maintain a high rate of forward momentum in order to keep them airborne. They do not hover silently and examine Shropshire in detail (neither do they stop off to surgically remove organs from farm animals as happens regularly in our county).
Of course there are other intelligent beings out there in our galaxy to whom we appear primitive given our few thousand years of evolution. They will make proper contact one day soon.
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Stephen Owens,
The fact that you and others feel the need to resort to juvenile insults rather than present any facts to support your beliefs will doubtless allow the readers to draw their own conclusions about the depth of our respective minds.
Again, there is this strange mention of train-spotting and toy cars – I have no interest in or involvement with either – I wonder is this a product of an over-fertile imagination on your part?
I suppose that with regard to those who are train-spotters, at least their hobby involves tangible objects, rather than a mish-mash of blurred photographs and conspiacy theories, so on that basis they are perhaps marginally less ‘geeky’ than UFO spotters.
Many people have hobbies – I like music and classic cars, but I wouldn’t expect these to be represented as often as this particular subject is within the Star – which leads me to suspect that there is someone within the paper who has this as a hobby and is keen to get it mentioned as often as possible.
Oh – and one more thing: the plural of UFO has no apostrophe!
Jamie – you quote the fact that the son of the inventor of the Lear jet believes this stuff too. That’s precisely the sort of non-seqitur that is presented as ‘evidence’ which proves nothing. So his father designed an aeroplane – does that necessarily make him an expert on space travel? Does it prevent him from being mistaken, or even having perhaps gone mad?
Statistically it is very likely that given the size of the universe, there is life on other planets. However, the distances involved are such that it is extremely unlikely that travel to Earth could be achieved (though doubtless the Star could bring forward several ‘experts’ and countless Trekkies who could provide bluieprints for a ‘hyperdrive’ – if only we could lay our hands on those dilithium crystals!)
The chances of such aliens regularly visiting rural Shropshire (without, notably, taking the trouble to land and have a look round) are even slimmer – so small as to be infinitesimally so.
I don’t mind if people believe whatever they want – whether it’s belief in deities, in sci-fi and little green men, or even the tooth fairy. I just happen to think that this particular hobby is over-represented in the Shropshire Star.
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the sighting was over an RAF base but was also seen over shrewsbury. if people read things properly they will see that this craft was seen all over the uk that over march 30th and 31st 1993.
not to mention in the united states and other countries in the world.
there have been many sightings, so i really don’t think this is a secret type of military aircraft. the odds of this are stacked up against this notion.
this story is huge and this bloke witnessed something special. it should’nt be critisized it’s an importany subject and we need to know the truth!
the authorities if they know something do not want to cause wide spread panic by just simply annoucing that ufo’s frequent our airspace all the time.
people need to maybe do some research on this and they will see. if it’s stopped president obama doing things then don’t you think that something is happening?
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Hey this is all over the states too, and is big over here so don’t write it off as secret military aircraft because it certainly is’nt. I live in Phoenix AZ and you should all take a look at what we folks have seen.
The uk needs to open up more to this subject and this newspaper is doing just that, good for you Shropshire Star!
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I think people should view the Fox news report here: http://www.dailymotion.com/related/x53t41/video/x53t4k_foxnews-ufos-on-video-high-quality_news?hmz=74616272656c61746564
This is NASA actually confirming they chase ufo’s all the time!!!
Now if this is’nt confirmation then what is?
LET ME JUST REPEAT THAT… THE FOX NEWS VIDEO AT THE ABOVE LINK IS NASA CONFIRMING UFO’S!!!!
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Jack,
Probably best not to bring stealth planes/bombers into this debate – they were invented in the fifties but only made public in the eighties – imagine what they’ve got under wraps now.
I mentioned John Lear before (only person to ol all FAA flying certificates, his dad invented the Lear jet) – John Lear claims they’ve already got planes that can go anywhwere in the world in three and a half hours – figure that one out.
As for UFOs watch the Disclosure Project and watch “John Lear Tells all” on youtube, it is hard to swallow for us all since we’ve been lied to all these years it’s difficult to break through the brain-washing. Just remember John Lear is already well known/rich so has nothing to gain. He also comes across as being genuine. You’ll hear him say some unbelievable stuff about 9/11 at which point you should search for “september clues”.
If you’re happy to live life without confronting these things that’s up to you –
Just don’t forget why there are so many secrets. It’s nothing to do with politicians, it’s the people (handful of famillies) that own the banks. Power.
That’s why it’s all hidden.
Last but certainly not least PHIL SCHNEIDER.
Regards,
Jamie.
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They are not experimental craft, ufos are flying around our airspace freely, i have have witnessed ufos for myself and it won’t be long until they make themselves known to the worls once and for all.
There is enough evidence now to suggest ufos exist now President Obama must lead the way by opening up about them.
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