UFO sightings in Britain rocket

By JOHN COLES

The Sun

THE number of UFO sightings soared by 40 per cent last year.

The MoD logged 135 reports – including one of two objects a MILE wide.

Two airline pilots spotted them over Guernsey, giving the sighting credibility.

One, Ray Bowyer, 50, said: “I’m not saying it was from another world, but I’ve never seen anything like it in all my years of flying.”

Nick Pope, who headed the Ministry of Defence’s UFO investigation team from 1991-1994, said: “This sighting is dynamite. The UFO was over a mile long and it was tracked on radar.

“It was the most interesting UFO report the MoD has received in several years.” The ministry revealed other sightings included cigar-shaped objects, lights in the sky and classic ‘saucer’ craft.

Abducted

They were lodged from all over England, Scotland and Wales at all times of the year.

One witness in Rotherham, South Yorks, said they saw “a bright triangular object in the sky. It was stationary at first and then moved”.

And a UFO-spotter in Duxford, Cambs, said: “Fifty objects, each with a single orange light. They gathered before ascending directly upwards.”

Meanwhile, a camper claimed a spaceship fleet abducted his dog and swiped his tent near Cardiff.

And five weeks ago, The Sun told how Kelvin Barbery took an amazing picture near Falmouth, Cornwall, of a ‘flying saucer’.

The original reports and any internal papers detailing the MoD’s probes in response to sightings are kept secret.

The publication of the 2007 figures came as the MoD prepares to release its archive of 10,000 sightings since the 1950s.

The reports, held in 160 files, are likely to include a blue object snapped in West Kilbride, and a saucer over Stirling.