Results tagged “UFO” from Chester Chronicle - And Finally

UFOs and pranksters have been blamed for them in the UK but it seems that in Tasmania crop circles are being blamed on stoned Wallabies.

The animals are snacking in opium poppy fields are getting "high as a kite" and hopping around creating crop circles.

Tasmania is the world's largest producer of legally-grown opium for the pharmaceutical market.

There are no aliens up there, as far as we know, but the Americans are preparing to bomb the moon.

A space mission blasted off from Cape Canaveral today carrying a missile that will fire a hole deep in the lunar surface.

But this is no gung-ho display of firepower - it is actually a serious quest for water.

Watch the video shot by Canadian Marty Wilbur from his Chester flat of a strange orange object flying over the city on Sunday (April 26) night.

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A former NASA astronaut says the US government continues to cover up the existence of alien life.

Speaking at a conference of UFO enthusiasts in Washington DC, Apollo 14 crew member Edgar Mitchell said: "Mankind has long wondered if we're alone. No, we're not.

"Our destiny - and we might as well get started with it - is to become a part of the planetary community." Mitchell, 78, who in 1971 became the sixth man to walk on the moon, called on President Obama to open secret files to reveal the truth about extra-terrestrials visiting Earth.

A UFO report was taken so seriously it was passed to Cabinet ministers.

Secret files released by defence chiefs yesterday reveal experts were baffled by the bizarre sighting.

They even had photos of the 75ft wide diamond-shaped object "buzzing" an RAF Harrier near the village of Pitlochry, Perthshire, on August 4, 1990.

Witnesses said it hovered for 10 minutes before zooming off at high speed. The mystery - which remains unsolved - is detailed in a newly declassified MoD memo at the National Archives in Kew, West London.

A new survey has revealed that 75% of Brits believe aliens exist.

According to the report by www.onepoll.com, 78% of people think aliens exist with another 55% believing they visit earth regularly.

Around one in five claim to have seen unexplainable lights in the sky or a UFO.

The study comes after a damaged wind turbine in Lincolnshire was blamed on a UFO collision after nearby residents also reported seeing strange lights in the sky.

The poll, of 3,000 people, revealed that more than a third of people (35%) believe that aliens were to blame to the broken blade on the wind turbine.

An investigation is under way into how a blade was mysteriously torn off a wind turbine amid reports of "strange lights" in the sky.

The turbine at Conisholme in Lincolnshire was left wrecked after the incident.

The Sun quoted residents speculating the damage could have been caused by a UFO.

Wind turbine company Ecotricity said it had never seen anything like it before.

A spokeswoman said: "We're conducting a thorough investigation into what happened. This kind of thing has never happened to us before."

The missing blade was found on the ground beneath the turbine, she said, adding that the company could not speculate on the cause of the damage.

"An engineer has been on the site since it happened, early on Sunday morning, and is carrying out a sort of forensic investigation."

The Ministry of Defence said it was not looking into the incident.

A spokesman said: "The MoD examines reports solely to establish whether UK airspace may have been compromised by hostile or unauthorised military activity.

"Unless there's evidence of a potential threat, there's no attempt to identify the nature of each sighting reported."

TOP secret files on UFO sightings have been released revealing Cheshire was once home to an "alien base".

Hundreds of reported sightings have been made public by the Ministry of Defence as they have been inundated with Freedom of Information requests to release the documents.

Among Britain's own X-files is a report from one ex-navy man from Kingsley who contacted Liverpool Airport's civil supervisor in December 1986.

Describing himself as a keen astrologer, he reported seeing six golden spheres moving "very fast" and leaving a vapour trail in the sky. He added they appeared to move from Speke Airport, Liverpool toward Manchester for about two minutes.

Another alarmed witness in Blacon called Cheshire police after seeing a red and yellow bright light on a clear night in December 1981.

They described the unexplained object as being steady in the air for five minutes before moving towards Mollington.

The recently unclassified information includes figures for the number of reported sightings of unidentified flying objects.

Numbers peaked in 1978, with 750 sightings - suspiciously a year after Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star Wars first hit the big screen. By 1984 there were only 214 reports.

The most outlandish claims come from a man who wrote to the MoD in 1985 saying he had been in regular contact with an extra terrestrial named Algar since 1958 and visited alien bases in Cheshire and the Wirral.

In a three-page letter, the man described seeing an alien that was "green and very large, that had eyes all over it," and another with "fat worms sticking out of her head".

He claimed to have seen six UFOs shoot another down near Wallasey Town Hall, sending it splashing into the Mersey before disappearing.

He continued: "In June 1981, Algar was ready to approach the government in person. I was over the moon with pride to be used as the medium between alien race and our own race."

But before the historic meeting could happen, Algar and his "team of scientists" were apparently killed by other aliens in 1981.

The would-be emissary added later that year the same aliens tried to "dominate" him but died in their attempt.