UFO sightings bring town to a standstill

[jefferson_dem]

UFO sightings bring town to a standstill
Last updated at 11:27am on 25th July 2007

A crowd of 100 stunned stargazers brought a town centre to a standstill when five mysterious UFOs were spotted hovering in the sky.

Drinkers spilled out of pubs, motorists stopped to gawp and camera phones were aimed upwards as the five orbs, in a seeming formation, hovered above Stratford-Upon-Avon for half an hour.

The unidentified flying objects lit up the otherwise clear night sky above Shakespeare's birthplace in Warwickshire on Saturday.

Although Air Traffic Control reported no unusual activity, some witnesses were convinced they were witnessing an extra-terrestrial spectacle.



The strange episode started just after 10.30pm, when the lights were seen hovering slowly over the town before three of them formed a triangular shape with one positioned just to the right.

A few minutes later a fifth came into view travelling towards the others at breakneck speed before slowing down and stopping a short distance away.

Sceptics dismissed the UFOs as nothing more than hot air balloons, fireworks or even lanterns which had broken loose from a local rugby club.

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LINK W/ VIDEO ::> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=470579&in_page_id=1770

[Bicoastal]

1. Well, that clinches it!

Shakespeare was an alien.

[sellitman]

4. So is my Cat N/T

[cynatnite]

2. Cool! I hope they beam up the bush administration and take them away...

to be experimented on.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

12. * has already been

anally probed, and here's what they discovered W was full of:

[Swamp Rat]

3. Lay off the herb Neil!

:D

[DemGa]

5. Yep, that's a formation of flying lanterns

Cool picture!!

[jefferson_dem]

8. Check out the video at the link.

Really cool stuff... :wow:

[karlrschneider]

16. Video won't play for me. WMP Error CD-something

urk

[hvn_nbr_2]

22. Lanterns always fly in formation when they break loose.

Swamp gas does too!

[Canuckistanian]

28. And weather balloons always go fast, then slow down rapidly

And you're wrong - everyone knows that swamp gas flies only in zigzag patterns.

[Solly Mack]

6. It was just Harry and friends

[AnExtremist]

7. Were these skeptics from the pub as well?

"Skeptics dismissed the UFOs as nothing more than hot air balloons, fireworks or even lanterns which had broken loose from a local rugby club."

Or maybe a combination of the 3! Hot air balloons shooting fireworks at lanterns, in the new and improved fuck up the town's lanterns project!

[Rainscents]

9. This is so cool!

UFO's been here for a while and want to help us... 2012 is right around the corner!

[ixion]

10. Sceptics dismissed the UFOs as...

nothing more than hot air balloons, fireworks or even lanterns which had broken loose from a local rugby club.


...


...


:wow:

:rofl:

:dunce:

[Richard Steele]

23. I always find it fascinating that the "UFO skeptics" make nuttier statements than the "believers".

They aren't actually "skeptics" so much as logic-impaired contrarians.

There's nothing too RIDICULOUS to support their denial, it seems.

[MissB]

24. Lanterns?

:rofl:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

11. They're looking in the wrong place again

--looks like my signal needs to be calibrated. I'm in TEXAS, not ENGLAND.

Ah, well- they'll catch up to me soon enough. I'll really miss this little dirtball when the Mothership finds me.

[Fridays Child]

13. You'll miss Bush?

Oh, okay. Never mind.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

15. There's a difference between a dirtball and a scum sucking moran

:evilgrin:

[Ghost in the Machine]

17. I'll make sure they get you, they're swinging by here first...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. UFO sightings bring small town some tourist revenue.

News at eleven.

[cobalt1999]

20. I've always said Roswell was the greatest chamber of commerce stunt ever.

Small desert town in the middle of nowhere. Now there are hotels, restaurants, museums, shops all catering to the space alien crowd. What a gold mine! Hell, they even have conventions there now.

[radfringe]

18. if they arranged themselves to spell out

impeach bush

then there is truely intelligent life out there

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

19. In The Video There Was No Sign Of Sudden Maneuvers Or Break Neck Speed.

It was actually quite dull.

Not sure what they were, but I was hoping for some video that would've been a bit more impressive as well.

[NV Whino]

21. Beam me up, Scotty

I'm ready.

[wicket]

25. Where's Fox Mulder when you need him?

:D

[Faygo Kid]

26. Whew. Klaatu barata whatever.

[KansDem]

27. Cock your head to the right and look at the lights...it's obvious...

The aliens are from the Planet of Mercedes.

[Canuckistanian]

29. Damn kids

Bunch of hooligans.