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- 'LIKE RUGBY BALL WITH LIGHTS' 21/02/96
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- Source: Evening Telegraph (Dundee)
- Date: February 21, 1996
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- A nine year old Broughty Ferry boy may have had a close encounter with the
- unidentified flying object a week before.
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- The boy was out playing along Broughty Ferry Esplanade at around 8pm last
- Tuesday when he saw a strange object in the sky.
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- He ran home to tell his mother what he had seen, describing the object as "like
- a rugby ball with lights on it" and even drew a picture.
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- He said the moving object was about "five-lamp-posts away and bigger than the
- moon."
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- But his mother dismissed the story as merely a tall tale - until this morning
- when she heard about the story of the 12 year olds claiming to have seen a UFO
- in nearby Orchar Park.
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- "I phoned RAF Leuchars on Wednesday night to see if they knew anything and they
- suggested he may have seen a planet or something in the atmosphere, so I just
- thought that's all it must have been.
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- "But my son is convinced he saw something else - something strange."
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- Last night's spectacle may have been witnessed by others.
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- A grandmother driving along Lawside Road towards Dundee Royal Infirmary with
- her 15 year old grand-daughter said she saw an unidentified flying object
- heading across the night sky from east to west at 8:15.
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- "It was the shape of a plane but looked strange because it was lit very
- brightly with yellow lights and flying awfully low. We expected to see smoke
- because we both thought it was coming down."
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- The children of an amateur astronomer in the Broughty area also believe they
- saw something at about the same time as the Orchar Park sighting.
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- It has been suggested that the sightings may be someone flying a radio-
- controlled model, but the astronomer has his own theories.
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- He believes that the answer may lie with energy and US government experiments
- to alter the stratosphere.
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