UFOs sighted over army barracks
Ministry of Defence officials are investigating after an army corporal reported seeing a UFO in the skies over Shropshire. View Larger Map Ministry of Defence officials are investigating after an army corporal reported seeing a UFO in the skies over Shropshire.Corporal Mark Proctor was on night patrol with two colleagues at Tern Hill Barracks, near Market Drayton, when he claimed he saw 13 cube-shaped "craft" in the sky, zig-zagging from side-to-side on Saturday June 7. Ministry of Defence spokeswoman Belinda Steele said MoD staff were investigating the incident purely to check there was no threat to the barracks. A national newspaper also reported that two hours later, a Shropshire couple claimed to have "been followed" by strange lights along the A5 near Shrewsbury. There were also reports a huge unidentified object rising from the ground towards a police helicopter in Cardiff at 12.40am on Sunday June 8 and photographs of alleged UFOs taken by a woman in Bromsgrove on Friday June 20. See also: UFOs mapped over Shropshire County UFO sightings revealed County a hotspot for UFO sightings VIDEO - Footage of aliens in Shropshire? Do you have photographs or video footage of UFOs over Shropshire? E-mail them to internet@shropshirestar.co.uk Read the full story in today's Shropshire Star and add your comments below
Ministry of Defence officials are investigating after an army corporal reported seeing a UFO in the skies over Shropshire.Corporal Mark Proctor was on night patrol with two colleagues at Tern Hill Barracks, near Market Drayton, when he claimed he saw 13 cube-shaped "craft" in the sky, zig-zagging from side-to-side.
Corporal Proctor, from the First Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment, said the lights, which were bright red, passed over the barracks very high, but not at a great speed.
Ministry of Defence spokeswoman Belinda Steele said MoD staff were investigating the incident purely to check there was no threat to the barracks.
She said: "The MoD examines reports solely to establish whether UK airspace may have been compromised by hostile or unauthorised military activity.
"If required, sighting reports are examined with the assistance of the Department's air defence experts. Unless there is evidence of a potential threat, there is no attempt to identify the nature of each sighting reported. "
No one from the Royal Irish Regiment was available to comment.
A similar sight over south Shropshire was also reported early today. Martin Curtis, of Dorrington, near Shrewsbury, says he spotted a huge bright light with a couple of smaller ones hovering over Caer Caradoc, Church Stretton, between 1am and 2am.
He said: "It stayed hovering in the sky for about an hour."
A national newspaper also reported that two hours after the Tern Hill sighting, a Shropshire couple claimed to have "been followed" by strange lights along the A5 near Shrewsbury.
There were also reports a huge unidentified object rising from the ground towards a police helicopter in Cardiff at 12.40am on Sunday June 8 and photographs of alleged UFOs taken by a woman in Bromsgrove on Friday June 20.
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Do you have photographs or video footage of UFOs over Shropshire? E-mail them to internet@shropshirestar.co.uk
