Results tagged “cheshire” from Chester Chronicle - And Finally

A MAJOR road into Chester had to be closed after a lorry carrying curry paste overturned near Tarporley this morning (Thursday, July 31).

The cab remained upright but the 44ft trailer lay on its side on the roundabout at the junction of the A49 and the A51.

Police were called out at 11.38am and partially closed the road while environmental health officers assessed the situation.

The road, covered in oil and diesel, was still closed five hours later as the trailer was put back to its upright position and a clean-up operation took place.

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.