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First published on June 21, 1997 THEY'RE here, we're told .. again. Aliens, UFOs and little green men have paid us yet another visit. Except this time their ship (yes, you guessed it, a huge V-shaped object bearing red and white glowing lights) skimmed the surface of Arizona, USA. A 60-mile trek in fact, from Paulden, Arizona past Phoenix, trudging along at a mere 30 miles per hour and spotted by thousands. Pilots, air traffic controllers, doctors and lawyers were among the witnesses. Sound familiar? Swindon residents are only too familiar with bright lights and odd occurences. With Swindon and particularly Warminster being Britain's biggest UFO hive, one figures the little green Arizona vacationers will soon be paying us a visit (although at 30mph it might pay to hit the gas a little). Wiltshire's UFO experts are aglow with excitement. Phil Mantle, spokesman for the British UFO Research Association, is familiar with the Arizona sighting. "It does sound potentially very interesting," he said."There is nothing that springs to mind that would rule this thing out." But let's not get too excited about the Arizona experience and start trotting off to Cradle Hill in Warminster to wait for the British version. First of all, where was Simon Burgess when all this was going on? Burgess was the insurance broker who only six months ago paid £1m to London man Joseph Carpenter after the 23-year-old electrician was abducted by aliens from a Swindon field. Denying it was an elaborate money-making stunt and infuriating Wiltshire's UFO fraternity, Burgess insisted Carpenter had provided visual and physical evidence of his October 10 abduction. Burgess has since insisted he's moved on from his alien abduction policies. Now he's selling immaculate conception insurance to British virgins fearful of the second coming. So if we can rule out Burgess, what about the military? After all, the Arizona sighting and Wiltshire's UFO fame have a connection - close proximity to air force bases. In Arizona, Luke Air Force Base angrily denied covering up their involvement in the slow moving UFO, despite reportedly sending three F-16 fighter jets to have a closer look. So what about Britain's military? We know nothing, the Ministry of Defence told local MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown last month. Mr Clifton-Brown was assured by boffins they knew nothing after he probed about mysterious objects on behalf of a concerned constituent. But Mr Mantle admits Swindon's immediate neighbourhood (which includes RAF bases at Lyneham, Fairford and Brize Norton) could certainly give rise to its high UFO incidence. "Most or many UFO sightings reported to us do have a conventional explanation," he said. "There will be a majority of those where there will be some sort of misidentification of aircraft." But there are still the sightings, which despite being at close quarters, have a distinct absence of noise. "There have been many sightings, not just in Swindon and Wiltshire but around the world, where there has been a puzzling lack of noise." Any military jet, as anyone knows, makes one hell of a noise. "Then there is the small matter of crop circles to back Wiltshire's UFO claims." Swindon, Wiltshire and surrounding areas are famous for the crop circle formations," said Mr Mantle. "And it's crop circle time again." Already reports are filtering in of crop circles in the west Country, said Mr Mantle, fuelling further claims of UFO shenanigins in Wiltshire paddocks. But it does raise the question, why come all the way from another planet to roll in the Wiltshire hay? Things must be a tad boring back home. Back to 1997 index |
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