UFO sightings rocket
UFO sightings above Britain more than doubled last year to nearly 300, defence chiefs revealed yesterday.
They included cigar-shaped craft, a spaceship with green, red and white lights that hovered opposite Parliament for 90 minutes and a big alien craft that landed on a man's house before flying off over Bristol.
In 2007 there were a mere 135 sightings above Britain.
Only last month Ufologists were agog when a wind turbine blade was smashed in Lincolnshire amid reports of lights in the night sky.
Last February the Ministry of Defence recorded 30 UFO sightings in West Yorkshire.
Also, a triangular craft with lights on each corner hovered at aircraft-height above Slough. And a fast green object was seen in May above the M6 in the West Midlands.
A UFO spotted over Tonbridge in Kent flew around in circles with "strange flashing lights and making a noise like an industrial train".
On New Year's Eve last year an Essex police officer reported: "A bright orange yellow light in the sky.
"Quite large, 1,500-2,000ft up. Moved very slowly in a half-circle, then stopped over the water between Brightlingsea and East Mersea. Shot straight up and disappeared very fast."
A witness said the spaceship opposite the Commons "was static in the sky for an hour-and-a half".