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28 UFO’s In The News 28 UFO’s In The News UFO sightings increase Our skies are alive with UFO sightings increase Our skies are alive with first time it was used at a demonstration. Their capacity to provide extra video 'after television shows unidentified objects evidence could prove useful to police forces unidentified objects 'after television shows about aliens' which face allegations about their public order about aliens' Edmonton Journal tactics, and about differing versions of major Edmonton Journal events such as London's G20 protests in April. Michael Evans, Defence Editor Could it be global warming? The tragic A Derbyshire Police spokeswoman said: Michael Evans, Defence Editor loss of Corner Gas? Repeated exposure to "A pilotless drone plane will be used to record Sightings of unidentified flying objects question period?Whatever the cause, evidence at the Red, White and Blue festival. increase when public interest is aroused by Canadians--interestingly, led by Albertans and "The drone, fitted with CCTV cameras, films and television programmes about aliens, British Columbians--reported more UFO will be used by a trained operator from the newly declassified files indicate. sightings in 2008 than ever before. manufacturing company. It will record any There was a surge of UFO reports in A just-released 20-year study documents incidents of disorder for evidence-gathering 1996 when the Hollywood film Independence a steep rise in possible close encounters over the purposes. The drone is similar to a small, model Day was released and the television series The decades, from 141 reported sightings in 1989 to aircraft." X Files was growing in popularity. 1,004 last year. About 14 per cent of the The drone is about three feet in diameter Ministry of Defence files released by the incidents, involving flying discs and strange and can be configured to gather still images, National Archives show that there were 609 lights in the sky, have been pronounced by video, thermal images and night-vision pictures. “sightings” in 1996, compared with 117 in authorities as "unexplained." Manitoba science Unlike full-scale police helicopters it is virtually 1995. The MoD had its own department to writer/ "ufologist" Chris Rutkoski partially inaudible. ensure that none of the reported UFOs was a assigns the sightings spike to the proliferation of Derbyshire Police is believed to have threat to national security. UFO websites online, as well as our rented the drone from another force for the day In one case in 1995, two men told police increasingly crowded skies. at a cost of £500. in Staffordshire that an alien figure with a Still, he allows that if there are indeed Police have been told to change the way lemon-shaped head had come out of a spaceship more advanced civilizations out there, they are they control public protests after the G20 they had seen that was four houses high and likely keeping an eye on us. demonstrations saw the death of newspaper hovering over a field, telling them: “We want Looking around at the messes we make, seller Ian Tomlinson after he was pushed to the you. Come with us.” The men gave police a that could be proof of alien wisdom. [] ground by a police officer. Earlier this month it drawing of the craft resembling a flying saucer. emerged that a woman may have suffered a The files also contained drawings of other Police launch 'Flying miscarriage shortly after being manhandled by supposed sightings. Police launch 'Flying officers at the G20 protests. [] Saucer' CCTV camera A US spy plane may have been behind Saucer' CCTV camera Mass UFO sighting in other allegations made in 1993. More than 70 Mass UFO sighting in people, including police and military personnel, Peru reported UFOs in Devon, Cornwall, South Police used a remote-controlled Peru Wales and Shropshire early on March 31. Many "flying saucer" to monitor the described a large, low-flying object which made Michael Cohen Michael Cohen a humming sound. BNP's Red, White and Blue festival A note to Sir Anthony Bagnall, then the in Codnor, Derbyshire, where anti- Two bright unidentified objects have assistant chief of air staff, from Nick Pope, head fascist protesters have assembled. been spotted by residents of the city of Tacna, of the MoD’s UFO desk, said there was Peru. 13th August 2009. Residents all over the evidence of an unidentified craft evading UK city were shocked to see two bright lights defences. By David Barrett, Home Affairs moving very slowy in the sky. Photos (above He said he would not normally concern Correspondent and below) and videos of the unidentified Sir Anthony with UFO sightings but continued: objects were taken. “You may wish to be aware of a recent Officials from the Carlos Ciriani airport particularly unusual incidence of UFO sightings in Tacna confirmed the objects were not over the UK, involving descriptions that match airplanes. some of the reported characterisations of the so- UFO fever is sweeping through Latin called ‘Aurora’.” America at an incredible pace. Brazil has The Aurora was the name given to a US disclosed. Uruguay recently joined this UFO plane supposedly developed in secret “black” nation: disclosing its previously classified UFO programmes in the 1980s which was allegedly files and allowing researchers to access them. capable of hypersonic flight, five times faster Apparently around 40 well studied cases in the than the speed of sound. country have been made public. Some involve Mr Pope said yesterday: “There are abductions and others highly documented UFO some fascinating cases here [in the released chases by the nation's Air Force. Argentina is files]and while we could explain 95 per cent of tipped to follow suite. Will Peru be next? [] the sightings, the rest were a genuine mystery. Similar to a mini-helicopter, the device We were particularly concerned by near misses has four pairs of carbon-fibre rotor blades which with aircraft and cases where UFOs were seen support a camera. An operator on the ground close to military bases.” [] controls the vehicle's flight using a hand-held control panel with two joysticks. The drone – which is based on military Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology – feeds live images back to a screen on the control unit, enabling the "pilot" to operate the machine even when it is out of his or her sight. Merseyside Police was the first force to use the drones, launching them during a number of crackdowns on gun and gang crime, as well as against anti-social behaviour. The aerial cameras have also previously been deployed to deter crime at pop festivals. Yesterday was the