Mystery sighting 'may be a UFO'

A 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.