Truth is out there somewhere . . .
Sightings of strange lights in the sky are rapidly turning Shropshire into the country's UFO capital. Is the weight of evidence becoming compelling, or are we just desperate to believe?
As Shropshire cinema-goers queue up, popcorn in hand to see the new X-Files flick, it's highly likely many of them won't see the film as fiction.
A new poll shows that 48 per cent of us believe in America's famed conspiracy theory 'Area 51' - which alleges that at a secret base in Nevada, the US government conducts tests on aliens and UFOs. It's a big surprise that so many of us would sign up to this theory, on the basis of very little proof. Why is that?
Dave Cosnette from the The Cosmic Conspiracies team, who runs the popular website www.ufos-aliens.co.uk, receives an average of 300 emails a day from worldwide UFO spotters.
Many, in recent weeks, have come from Shropshire, where reports of spinning coloured lights over Tern Hill, Church Stretton, and parts of Telford are forging it a reputation as one of the nation's UFO hotspots.
He reckons they're definitely out there. Talking about the Area 51 conspiracy, he says: "The belief that UFOs were present at the base probably started when alleged former employee, Bob Lazar, came forward in 1989, claiming he'd seen a UFO at an area within the base called S-4.
"Lazar claimed that S-4 was used to back engineer alien technology. According to Lazar, there were nine UFOs in the hanger. It was his job to investigate the propulsion system of the craft.
However, after in-depth research, no official records of Lazar could be found, other than his name appearing in a phonebook from the base.
