UFOs spotted over county (Shropshire Star, 01-21-2009)
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Mystery surrounds an unidentified flying object spotted in the skies above Telford.
Reader Robson Bolam sent us these pictures of a mystery object which he saw over Donnington.
And he is at a loss as to explaining what it is he photographed.
But Mr Bolam is not the only person puzzling over something they have seen in the sky.
Mark Young, from Telford, told the Shropshire Star he noticed six or seven red and green lights above Clive Barracks at Tern Hill, near Market Drayton, as he drove along the A53 towards Market Drayton yesterday.
He said he saw the lights at about 7pm and again an hour later when he returned.
He said: “Although I was driving at the time they were flying at no great speed, but there were six or seven, possibly more, at the same time.
“They all had a red or green light flickering and occasionally there was a bigger brighter white light flying with them. It was difficult to guess their direction, but they appeared to be going round in circular motions.
“When I came back down this road an hour later they were still there flying.”
However military officials from the barracks, which is home to the First Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment said the lights were probably helicopters.
Phil Hoyle, a member of the UFO Investigations and Research Unit based in Shrewsbury, said Donnington was one of the country’s top hot spots for sightings, and added: “This sounds like a definite sighting of a UFO.”
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