METEOR STORM SPECTACULAR SPARKS OFF UFO SIGHTINGS

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From:Doug Roberts
Title:METEOR STORM SPECTACULAR SPARKS OFF UFO SIGHTINGS
Source:Shropshire Star
Date:January 12, 1996


A meteor storm provoked a spate of UFO sightings in Shropshire and North Wales.

Police stations across the region were called by alarmed residents reporting

unidentified flying objects last night as they saw the lights. And the meteor

storm was to blame for a false report of a plane crash which sparked a major

operation.

Bill Teagle, of Beacon Brook House, Monkhopton, saw a coloured light plummet

towards the earth as [he] drove through Aston Munslow.

"It was a green and orange flash and it seemed to be towards the north but it

was going towards the ground," he said. "It was like a firework but coming

downwards."

In North Wales a major operation was launched after a light aircraft was

reported to have crashed at Caerwys near Holywell.

A police helicopter was scrambled and three fire appliances went to the scene

of the reported crash at the mountain Moel y Prc around 8pm.

A spokesman for North Wales fire service said: "Air traffic control said there

had been unusual meteorite activity in the area, causing the lights."