DUNDEE CLOSE ENCOUNTER

February 21, 1996
The Courier

Mrs Pamela Stewart, of Ramsay Street, said her son Cameron and his friends Graham Binnie and Joanne Leach - all aged 12 and pupils at Grove Academy - had come "belting" into her house shortly after 7:30, crying uncontrollably and with only Cameron able to speak at all.

"He said they had seen something awful in the park," she said, "and I automatically thought they had witnessed someone being attacked of something like that.

"Joanne was in a terrible state and Graham wasn't much better and then they all just started speaking at the same time about this aircraft which has hovered over them in the park and shone lights at them.

"None of them are prone to making things up and I'm sure they haven't read anything abou UFOs recently, so when I heard that, I tried to calm them down as best I could and told them to sit down seperately and draw what they had seen."

According to Mrs Stewart the resulting drawings, and the accounts of what had happened, were so close that she has no doubt they saw something which scared them very badly.

Cameron, Joanne and Graham all described a "burger" shaped craft with domes shaped like the pointed ends of a rugby ball top and bottom and a band of both static and flashing coloured lights round the middle.

They said the lights were red, blue, green and white - the last being particularly intense - and that as they watched the craft moved silently until it was almost above them and shone three "triangular" lights in their direction.

Mrs Stewart said, "The kids said that's when they panicked and ran to the house because they got the feeling whatever it was was following them.

"As they ran they saw it heading over towards the Bughties and then out of their sight but I could tell by the state they were in that they had run hard all the way from the park and had been badly shocked by whatever it was."

Mrs Stewart said she had asked all three whether it had been a helicopter or some other "normal" aerial phenomenon but was told that it had hovered and moved in absolute silence.

The description of the lights baffled astonomer Brian Kelly, who was watching the night sky from the Mills Observatory in Dundee.

"The only things we have in the sky at the moment which can be confused with UFOs are Venus and Sirius, but neither of thse is likely to give off those sort of colours," said Mr Kelly.

"I cannot think what would give off lights like that."

Police said no other sightings similar to the object spotted by the children were reported last night.

RAF Leuchars said they had being doing some night flying, but not with anything which fitted the description of the Orchar Park UFO.

Control Staff said they had not recorded any strange objects in the sky over Dundee.

The three children were all still shaken today. Mrs Stewart said all three had gone to school but were still rather stunned.

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