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