As I leafed through hundreds of official UFO report forms it became obvious the vast majority of sightings could easily be explained.

For example, staff and customers at a pub in Tunbridge Wells reported seeing a UFO with “red and green flashing lights” moving across the sky. When asked to describe the direction of movement their answer was “Gatwick”.

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I do believe he was an intelligence officer in some form or fashion at some point in his life. I still believe that, and I will go to my grave believing that. He was an intelligence officer of some sort or fashion at some point in his life,” Helfman said.

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A navy sailor contacted the Northern Territory News following Thursday’s report of a UFO sighting on Groote Eylandt. Aaron Clement remembered seeing a similar flying object while in the Gulf of Carpentaria as a seaman on HMAS Kanimbla in July 2006. “I read it in the paper … and I said ‘get out’ — I saw exactly the same thing,” he said. “It was high up in the sky. It was like a ball (then) it went orange and went away. Everyone thought it’s a bit strange.

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SENSATIONAL sightings of a flying HUMAN above the skies of Mexico could be genuine, says a paranormal expert.

The mysterious woman-like figure was caught on camera as it hovered above mountains in Nuevo Leon city.

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“All of a sudden it shot off and left a long orange trail behind it. That orange trail just faded out like a shooting star.”

Mr Murray said they wanted to know what flew over their heads in the night.

“It wasn’t a chopper, it wasn’t a plane, we knew that much, and it definitely wasn’t ashooting star.”

“It blew us out of the water.”

Defence spokeswoman Kelly Cooper said the object was not a military plane.

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The Cuban news service reports that George W. Bush has purchased 98,840 acres in Paraguay, near the Bolivian/Brazilian border.

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I once asked Dr Ray Hyman, a CIA-contracted psychologist, why the agency employed a team of psychics. “People are basically nutty,” he shrugged. “Which means there are just as many nutty people within our government and our law enforcement agencies as there are outside them.

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