The UFO files: sketches and reports of sightings in Britain

Eyewitness sketches of unidentified flying objects are included in newly-released files. Among the drawings sent to the Ministry of Defence to illustrate unusual sightings are the following: Three triangular UFOs resembling stealth aircraft, two of them with round or lozenge-shaped lights along the wings. A resident of Torrisholme, near Morecambe, Lancashire, wrote to the MoD in May 1997 seeking to know more about “what is going on around the country and in particular our area”. The correspondent said the UFOs hovered over people’s homes and followed cars, but were not helicopters, normal planes or balloons

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