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Letter: UFO bomber picture reminded me of a Shropshire sighting…
Wednesday 16th March 2011, 5:10AM GMT.
The blow-up photo of a Lancaster Bomber with an object above it to the right, taken from Withernsea Saturday June 15 2002
Letter: The picture of a Lancaster bomber tracked by a UFO in the Shropshire Star reminded me of a similar occurrence.
When I was working in Shrewsbury about 12 years ago I saw a UFO tracking a Chinook helicopter flying over the countryside towards RAF Shawbury. The cloud cover was bright and overcast at the time.
The UFO was elliptical in shape and the same light grey as the cloud cover. I only saw the UFO because it had what I can only describe as an ionisation layer around it. This gave the UFO a clear outline. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. It was certainly a UFO.
I have often wondered if anyone has seen something similar.
The truth is definitely out there!
Anthony Dunford
Market Drayton
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There have been many sightings over the years like this oe and some half decent images captured.
UFOs in Shropshire and Mid Wales are investigated regulary by a Shrewsbury based investigation group called UFORIU (UFO research & investigations group). Shropshire is home to one of the UK’s biggest un-explained UFO incidents to date, The 1993 Cosford UFO incident. This involved a UFO directly overflying two of Britains biggest and most important RAF bases, Shawbury and Cosford. The craft was seen by over 100 different people up and down the country, including police officers, and military personnel.
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How on earth (pun intended) do you class both Cosford and Shawbury as two of Britains biggest and most important RAF bases? Both are low key training venues and not front line establishments. Maybe Mork was just delivering students from further afar.
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Techinally they are two of the most important because Shawbury has the central flying school and ATC school which trains pilots and the people that control their aircraft. Cosford has a ig electronics/engineering school which again trains personnel that have to keep things, well fixed. So to say that they are not important is stupid. In 1993 we weres till in the cold war. I would love to hear the response from ‘bunny’ James the sation commander at Shawbury when you told him his base was ‘low key’. For the record front line bases are only found in theatre of conflict such as Iraq, or Afgan.
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Although the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, with the Soviet Union breaking up in 1991, so I’m not sure that your claim that we were still in the Cold War in 1993 is accurate.
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Technically – there was no mention of ‘unimportant’. If you are now inferring that Shawbury was a key cold war base in 1993, it was not. As for your definition of a front line base – perhaps you would like to dispute your testimonial to RAF Marham’s CO or indeed any one of the other front line bases within the UK. Cast your mind back to 1982 – it was Vulcans from RAF Scampton that attacked Argentinian positions in the Falklands. Perhaps the RAF on their website are not aware of your definition of ‘front line’ e.g. RAF Benson in Oxfordshire is described as a front line SH unit – Shawbury and Cosford are not. Did the RAF rely on Cosford and Shawbury to mount Saturdays attack on Libya – again no. Facts not conjecture.
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Gary didn’t say ‘important’ he said “biggest and most important” there is a not particularly subtle difference!
Perhaps in future you might like to read what people have actually written before you call their comments stupid?
Your kind of misinterpretation pretty much sums up my experiences with most UFO-chasers who are far too quick to jump to convenient, ill-based conclusions.
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Took some photos of the Parachute display at an army passing out parade two years ago. Upon closer inspection of the digital images there were multiple UFOs in the vicinity. On one photo, blown up and with high contrast, that showed sixteen UFOs. Small discs that would have to be some king of drone technology but nothing in the public domain.
https://picasaweb.google.com/1968UK/Nickspassout#5370701623560654802;
https://picasaweb.google.com/1968UK/Nickspassout#5370151794756851122,
https://picasaweb.google.com/1968UK/Nickspassout#5370143520570438146. These uploads are lower resolution than the originals but you can still see some.
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What you’re seeing are dust spots on your camera’s sensor, which become visible at small apertures. According to the EXIF data, the first and third pictures were taken at f/13 and the second one at f/11. You probably wouldn’t see them at larger apertures, such as f/5.6 or more, and possibly not even at f/8.
Get yourself a rocket blower, remove the lens and use the camera’s mirror-up function to expose the sensor and blow some of that dust away.
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If image was taken in 2002, there was a good chance that it was taken on film. digital SLR’s were not in common use at the time as. Blur pattern looks like film as well
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Not the photo in the article… I’m talking about SharkieUK’s photos on Picasa that he provides links to.
As for the one in the article, it’s so blurry it could be anything. With a small enough aperture (which is likely on a bright, sunny day), something like a fly passing close to the lens could appear like this when the perspective is compressed onto a 2 dimensional print.
That aside, a quick google reveals that it was, in fact, taken with a digital camera and the photographer didn’t notice it until he downloaded it onto his computer (i.e. he didn’t see it in the sky at the time he took the shot), so a simple dust spot is still a very plausible explanation.
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Well tony have you been on the sherry?. I accept we have such things as unidentified flying objects whether these come from another planet and are filled with aliens I doubt it very much.You have more chance of finding aliens at our ports but they come in stuck in the back of a lorry.
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Andrew- You doubt that UFOs are filled with aliens?
The facts are more and more pointing towards the truth that aliens do exist and this planet has been visited by them for thousands of years. Why is it that we now have military and political commentators on this subject that are now coming forward supporting action to find the truth. There is too much evidence in the world to suggest that we are completly alone in the universe and it is only a matter of time before we find out exactly who is out there. I welcome skepticism but these days skeptics are not of the majority.
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I did not say we were alone in the universe but I doubt they have the ability to pop in on us as we have of popping in on them. I would also add why do these fans of aliens etc assume they will be friendly and just a little curious?, why not come conquer and enslave/kill the human race?. Id rather not encourage contact.
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That is why, after 50 years, the RAF have closed their dedicated UFO unit due to no hard proof or evidence of threat. Do aliens exist; of course, just read some of out of world ramblings on this page. Must be the effects this weekends supermoon.
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‘The facts are more and more pointing towards the truth that aliens do exist and this planet has been visited by them for thousands of years.’
Really? What facts?
Surely the scientific facts are that whilst life may well exist elsewhere in the Universe, it would be so far away that the chances of it travelling such distances to be here are very slim indeed…
I think what you meant to say was that:
‘Groups of self-appointed experts who are prone to exaggeration, to jumping to unfounded conclusions and believing in ridiculous conspiracy theories are inclined to believe that aliens do exist and this planet has been visited by them for thousands of years, and wish to present this view, erroneously, as fact…’ isn’t that it?
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The possible explanation of the results of Young’s experiment and the theory of the multiverse suggest that there maybe an infinite number of universes. If this is the case, there would be a universe in which aliens buzz the earth in the craft we call UFOs.
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Just…not in this one.
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