British UFO
Sitings Increase
Clusters of up to 100 mysterious objects,
bright white lights and strange, triangular shaped objects are just
some of a huge surge in UFO sightings reported to the Ministry of
Defence last year.
The number of UFO sightings reported
to the MoD is up from 97 to 135.
The ministry has opened up its own
"X-Files" for 2007, revealing 135 UFO sightings from across the UK.
If aliens are choosing the UK as a
holiday destination, it appears it is becoming more popular, as the
number of sightings has shot up since 97 were reported in 2006.
Last year the MoD released details of
UFO sightings for the first time, including an archive back to 1998.
Previously, details of classified reports were kept secret for 30
years. Discs, formations, white or orange lights, triangular shaped
craft and pipe-like objects were all spotted buzzing around the sky in
2007.
In Duxford, Cambridgeshire on April
12, a witness reported seeing fifty objects, each with an orange light,
assembling in the sky before ascending.
Two pilots in different planes above
Alderney in the Channel Islands reported the same UFOs on April 23.
They saw one bright orange craft, then a gap, followed by an identical
object.
In Portsmouth, Hants, in October, a
witness watched as "an oval/spherical shaped object approached an
aircraft, and appeared to accelerate very fast, and then wobbled from
side to side.
"Another object appeared in roughly
the same vicinity and then stayed stationary."
In the West Midlands in December, one
witness got a shock when a UFO shone a light into her window. The MoD
logged: "A giant craft shone a light into the witness's back window. It
shot off fast at first to the North East and then started to move at a
slow pace."
Another report noted a "an
exceedingly bright light, which was stationary, but sometimes flew off"
over the Wiltshire skies.
Hilary Porter, from the British Earth
and Aerial Mysteries Society (BEAMS) said sightings were becoming
increasingly common. She said: "There has been a huge influx of UFOs.
Absolutely enormous. There has been these huge formations that have
been coming.
"We have had so many calls from
people that have seen these huge formations. We have had call after
call after call, from business people right down to ordinary folk in
their cars. “There have been some very close encounters that have been
quite unnerving for the people involved. We have had other people
reporting orb sightings."
Others maintain that the vast
majority of the sightings can be explained. Many are helicopters or
other human designed craft like weather balloons and satellites, while
others are optical illusions or unusual cloud formations. The MoD made
the decision to release the files after a Freedom of Information
request.
A spokeswoman said the ministry does
not investigate each and every report. "We only investigate if there
have been any objects in British air space that may be military," she
said.
"Unless there's evidence of a
potential threat we don’t investigate to try to identify it."
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