From: | Doug Roberts |
Title: | STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT SKY? |
Source: | Wallasey News |
Date: | Feburary 17, 1996 |
Special investigation by Cheryl Wright
UFO experts have just carried out an invetigation into strange lights above the
sky at Clatterbridge. The investigation - carried out by the British UFO
Research Association - was set up after three people in the same car all
reported a "close encounter" with an unidentified flying object in the skies
above Wirral. Since time began there have been documented cases of strange
objects in the sky. Even in the Bible ufologists claim that there is a
reference to a UFO. For many, the existence of UFOs is confined to the realms
of science fiction. But for researchers and enthusiasts - UFOs are very real.
These people make up the 1,000 members of Britain's largest UFO organisation,
BUFORA. The British UFO Research Association thoroughly investigates every
reported sighting in the country. BUFORA's local representative Tony Eccles,
investigates sightings in the North West, the most recent being the one at
Clatterbridge. The sighting was reported by three people travelling in the same
car along the M53 in early October. They reported two bright lights in the sky
as they approached Clatterbridge roundabout, which appeared to hovver and
dance. As the car neared Bromborough, the lights swooped down over it, allowing
a closer look. The occupants reported larger lights surrounded by smaller blue
lights. But this may be a case that demonstrates the need to keep an open mind
about such unexplained phenomena. For after investigation, Tony found that
humid air conditions at the time may be to blame. A possible explanation, he
says, is that the lights could have been refracted from a different source,
possibly a police helicopter.
The article is accompanied by two pictures with the caption: "Somewhere out
there? Reporter Cheryl Wright looks to the skies and, inset, an impression of
what a UFO might look like". The inset picture is actually of a classic "grey"
alien, not a UFO, and looks like it was taken from the cover of Fortean Times
#83.