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9:50am Monday 11th September 2006

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IN A scene reminiscent of the X Files, a couple have been left scratching their heads after a UFO sighting in their garden.

Helen Hanreck, 49, was looking for her cats in the garden when she noticed a bright light in the sky.

Miss Hanreck, of Longwalk, Istead Rise, claims she saw more than six red lights moving silently across the night sky.

She claims the lights were moving slowly in an inverted V shape with a long tail.

The insurance manager called to her partner, Nick Claydon, to have a look at the spectacle on September 8 at 9.45pm.

Miss Hanreck says she hoped he would give her a rational explanation to the unexplained lights.

She said: "I thought it was flying too close to other aircraft and I did think It's a terrorist attack heading for London'.

"But then I realised it was going the other way and heading south east. I called to Nick as I thought he would know what the lights were as he has a pilot's licence.

"But when he came into the garden we were both lost for words. We watched the lights for 10 to 15 minutes and it was like watching Chinese lanterns being dragged silently through the sky."

She added: "I am not a believer in spaceships and aliens but I called the police to report it.

"They told me a taxi driver had already phoned in about it, so I was relieved it was not just us."

Mr Claydon, who also saw the UFOs, insists he and his partner are not "nutters".

The 49-year-old said: "We are not flying saucer nutters. We are just normal people, although we did go to Roswell in America to see where a spaceship was supposed to crash.

"I have always wanted to see something like this as other people go on about it.

"When we saw it I raced for my camera but I had it on the wrong setting so nothing came out."

Miss Hanreck says there may be a perfectly logical explanation although she can't think of one.

She added: "I would be interested to hear whether anyone else saw anything.

"We are so mystified by the whole thing. It's definitely a story we will be able to tell at dinner parties."

North Kent police say they had one report of someone seeing flashing lights at 10.01pm on September 8.

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emii, says...
1:41am Mon 13 Nov 06

seriously, do you really beleive that there is other life forms? And why would they want anything to do with us?? Its more a what if question than a fact!

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Mika Halonen, says...
8:21am Thu 14 Dec 06

emii wrote:
seriously, do you really beleive that there is other life forms? And why would they want anything to do with us?? Its more a what if question than a fact!
Open your eyes and then tell me you aren't only idiot on this planet who thinks that we are only living things in this universe. Man you made me laugh.

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MC, says...
10:27am Tue 19 Dec 06

I wonder why people's cameras always seem to be on the wrong setting...?

Most modern cameras, digital or analogue, calculate the best settings for themselves.. point and shoot. So with 15 minutes to get the setting right - he couldn't manage it... very odd.

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AT, says...
10:38am Tue 19 Dec 06

emii wrote:
seriously, do you really beleive that there is other life forms? And why would they want anything to do with us?? Its more a what if question than a fact!
Please check the following website before disbelieving: www.disclosureproject.org + I have to agree with MC about that camera situation...a very odd syndrome which is usually associated with these events.

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John Higgins, says...
11:30am Tue 19 Dec 06

UFO's arte all hoaxes or viewed by people with delusional behaviour. If such things really existed them everybody would see them all day. Its very strange how there is no real evidence of their existence. Even the Military deny their existence.

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Stale Cracker, says...
12:35pm Tue 19 Dec 06

MC wrote:
I wonder why people's cameras always seem to be on the wrong setting...? Most modern cameras, digital or analogue, calculate the best settings for themselves.. point and shoot. So with 15 minutes to get the setting right - he couldn't manage it... very odd.
... unless you have your camera set to one of the myriad other settings than "auto".

Not odd at all, considering most people barely know how to turn their camera on.

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Stale Cracker, says...
12:41pm Tue 19 Dec 06

Kinda like Dark Matter and God. Neither have ever been observed, but are believed to exist. As for your military statement, meh... naive simpleton.

PS. Proper grammer and spelling will make you seem less idiotic.

Gotta go, the mothership is waiting for me :)

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Rob Whitehead, says...
1:35pm Tue 19 Dec 06

Unfortunately, the lights reported were more than likely the 'UFO lanterns' that can be bought on eBay. They look weird, but are most certainly of this earth.

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sanjaya, says...
1:40pm Tue 19 Dec 06

You should check on www.rael.org you will be surprise on the origin of human and its connection with UFO's. Their books are free to download and are very easy to read.

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Lard, says...
3:01pm Tue 19 Dec 06

Stale Cracker wrote:
Kinda like Dark Matter and God. Neither have ever been observed, but are believed to exist. As for your military statement, meh... naive simpleton.

PS. Proper grammer and spelling will make you seem less idiotic.

Gotta go, the mothership is waiting for me :)
*cough*
Grammar

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Rabbit, says...
3:05pm Tue 19 Dec 06

There are ET life forms visiting, a rational consideration of the number of reports between the various main UFO organisations and their nature should convince anyone who isn't lost in caveman denial. It can be seen from such a study that it would seem likely that the things are indeed somewhere or other about the planet just about any day, and though their technology makes them seem impossible, even to those of us who have seen them the number and correlations between reports is enough at least to convince those of us who have seen them, that we are neither mad nor alone.

Those who under the circumstances, ie: the growing understanding of the nature and diversity of the Universe and Life itself, deny the obvious reality of what is being reported by many at least, is a caveman in denial.

Rabbit has seen, he has seen them a couple of times, up close and real enough to not ever be in any doubt. Some may choose in their caveman fear and ignorance to ridicule, but the rabbit knows what the rabbit saw. Those who deny out of ignorant anti-faith are primitiv poodles.

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Robert, says...
4:08pm Tue 19 Dec 06

We need for stories such as this to include information about the size and speed of the UFO. Information about how close to the ground, color of the object, what sort of surface, and other specific details would be more intelligent to report. It is not likely that all of the UFO reports are lies or illusions. Some of them, probably, but probably not all. Where there's smoke, there's fire, usually. Even if they are not real, we need to know with certainty exactly what is going on about these phenomena. The fact that the scientific community have largely ignored such reports -or have discounted their significance- is one more example of how they are letting us down. They have been completely incapable of resolving this issue in any entirely satisfactory way, yet that is what science is supposed to be about. UFOs might not be real, but if they are, a lot could be at stake. It warrants taking the issue seriously, at least until it is proven not to be warranted.

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WALTER T. ROGERS, says...
4:19pm Tue 19 Dec 06

UFO'S ARE VERRY REAL!,I'VE HAD SIGHTINGS OF THESE STRANGE CRAFT MYSELF,AND CAN TELL YOU THEY ARE AS REAL AS OUR OWN AIRCRAFT!,.WE JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE!,NEATHER DO OUR GOVERNMENT'S!..UFO PAL!

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Robert Dancosse, says...
5:03pm Tue 19 Dec 06

My dad and I experienced seeing a UFO in the early 60's circle the moon and then stopped, then like a flash exited out of sight. But wait, the world is flat, and men will never fly nor travel under the oceans. Narrow minded people have held back humanity for too long and one day all will know that events noted today will fill a book of truths tomorrow.

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bdfsd dfsdff, says...
5:21pm Tue 19 Dec 06

Don't bother to argue with the skeptics...they can be taken aboard a fly saucer and have anal probes stuck up their bums and they would simply say it was a dream.

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dj, says...
6:49pm Tue 19 Dec 06

UFOS ARE 100% REAL !, THERE AS REAL AS THE PLANES THAT PASS OVER YOUR HEAD !

MILITARY GUY. ;)

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canadianufo, says...
8:38pm Tue 19 Dec 06

They trully are as real as the planes above. I've seen and photographed a couple hundred of these objects and alien or not they are real.

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John Gillies, says...
10:44pm Tue 19 Dec 06

I must agree there are alien life forms and ufos i have filmed some strange crafts myself.
http://lsufos.com

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Andy, says...
10:54pm Tue 19 Dec 06

To think that the earth is the only inhabited planet in the whole universe is very small minded. Scientists are finding new planets around nearby stars on a daily basis. Mankind has already become an alien with landings on the moon and such, so why is it so strange to think that aliens exist away from the earth ?
If another life form was to stumble accross our noisy planet, do you think they would want to be taken to our leaders and demand the surrender of the earth !! Or do you think they would want to observe from a distance in the same way we observe wild apes in the jungle ?


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Jack, says...
11:03pm Tue 19 Dec 06

The camera issue mentioned by a couple other posters is tricky. It can be difficult to grab a camera and take a shot of even a normal airplane before it flies out of sight. As for the settings, if you have the camera on auto at night, you will get an unwelcome flash, so it's not surprising at all that his picture didn't come out.

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Elaine, says...
12:49am Wed 20 Dec 06

See for yourself what I thought was a helicopter flying extremely low over the ocean and my husband filmed. You can view it at: www.MajorMediaBypass.com in our video entitled: Speechless.

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karl, says...
1:45am Wed 20 Dec 06

John Higgins wrote:
UFO\'s arte all hoaxes or viewed by people with delusional behaviour. If such things really existed them everybody would see them all day. Its very strange how there is no real evidence of their existence. Even the Military deny their existence.
"UFOs are as real as the planes that fly over our heads." Canadian Foreign Minister.

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Patrick Sullivan, says...
4:36am Wed 20 Dec 06

If the Extraterrestrials did not exist, we all would be nuclear waste already.
As for the military, the ET are not militarists, yet they have the technical ability to dominate the skies, and the seas.
The big secret of it all concerns nuclear weapons and our nuclear war fighting elites plans to immolate the mass of humanity in an all out nuclear war.
ET says no nuclear war, and that means no nuclear war.

http://politicsofet.com

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Dagnold, says...
6:47am Wed 20 Dec 06

We are but one small planet circling one ordinary star in a galaxy of billions of stars; and our galaxy is but one average galaxy in a known universe of hundreds of billions of galaxies.

Anyone that thinks we are the only life in an expanse so unfathomable, just isn't thinking.

Whether other life forms are visiting earth or not is an entirely other matter, but surely there are many populated planets in the universe, of this I have no doubt.

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smith, says...
8:50am Wed 20 Dec 06

the eral joke is that she thought it was terrorsts,
blair & his israeli handlers have done a good job on her with there mossad - fake muslim terror threats/actions.

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Kingman, says...
11:35am Wed 20 Dec 06

Check here if you really are curious about ET's visiting us...figu.org....

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khris777, says...
7:18pm Wed 20 Dec 06

People, people... 1) i too am sure that there is life out there because the universe is just too big.. HOWEVER, getting HERE may be a differnt story.. MAYBE. 2) i just went hiking and putting my digital camera back in its case, i kept pulling it out and missing pictures because the little dial on the top kept getting pushed OFF of the Auto setting and onto portrait or something.. THATS HOW IT HAPPENS... could happen to be on a wrong setting (say portrait or night) when the ufo sighter scrambles for their camera... STOP being so dense... be openminded, not a 'true believer'; true believers just make themselves look as idiots and cause logical people to dismiss the whole lot of you.

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Sheri, says...
4:52am Thu 21 Dec 06

I agree. In all the universe which is supposed to be infinite, why should we be the only living beings? Do you think we're privileged or something? I'm sure there's someone or something "out there" somewhere.

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Michael Horn, says...
9:26pm Thu 21 Dec 06

The above picture looks suspiciously like one of Billy Meier's photos from the 1970s, which are quite real. I lecture on the case internationally and maintain the theyfly. com website. The Meier case is the real "why" and essence of the UFO matter...at least those that are NOT of terrestrial origin, as many are.

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Truthseeker, says...
3:27am Fri 22 Dec 06

Yup, that picture is of a Billy Meier Beam-ship UFO.

Of course UFOs are real.

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Dyson Devine, says...
8:32pm Fri 22 Dec 06

How nice to see a photo of a REAL ET spacecraft in the mainstream press for a change! Very little about Earth's one formal (ongoing since 1942), amalgmated, ET-initiated, contact is in English, but a lot of that is now appearing here (www.gaiaguys.net/meier.htm) for those Earthlings who have what it takes to accept VERY simple logic and VERY iconoclastic truth.

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mandy, says...
2:23pm Sun 31 Dec 06

on 25th dec at approx 8pm from raynes park travelling west witnessed something very similar to the lights you described, silent also. my son alerted me to them, couldnt take my eyes from them, managed to film the final one we saw.


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hello, says...
4:48pm Tue 2 Jan 07

my people we are all alien

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Bob Horn, says...
3:21pm Wed 3 Jan 07

John Higgins wrote:
UFO\'s arte all hoaxes or viewed by people with delusional behaviour. If such things really existed them everybody would see them all day. Its very strange how there is no real evidence of their existence. Even the Military deny their existence.
Even the Military deny their existence.

If what the military deny is anything to go by then i will have to sway to the side of a defenite believer!!!


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clarity, says...
5:34pm Wed 3 Jan 07

short sighted blinkered people will not see past the nose on their face. It appears a percentage of the population needs a big WAKE UP call, if this needs to be done by aliens so be it.

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Col. US Army, says...
12:26am Thu 4 Jan 07

Spent alot of my time in the Army (United States) and had the privledge to guard certain area's that are TS and I tell you some of the things Ive seen I can't explain and kind of see why there kept from the public because if some of the technology is almost Supernatural to our Tech Col. US Army

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SkyKj, says...
9:52pm Sat 6 Jan 07

Sky Candles!!

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macca, says...
8:14am Thu 11 Jan 07

Similar lights have been reported over other cities.
I saw similar lights in same patterns, flying against the wind, at Rapid Creek in Darwin NT Australia Nov 2000.
They simply appeared, above, not having risen, and moved slowly in formation as if they wanted to be seen. Being ex-military, they were not flares or parachute flares, or aircraft, and after taking their time, suddenly moved so quickly that they were gone in seconds, each moving independently in east and north east directions.
Lanterns and meteorites do not move in well spaced v formations, nor do they change direction quickly!

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H.Hart, Toronto, Ontario says...
3:24am Mon 26 Mar 07

UFO Aliens are Fallen Angels commonly called Demons . They have been on this planet for the past 65 Million years and have Advanced Technology left over from the Planet that they blew up near Mars when they tried to kill God. Right now they are getting ready for Armageddon.

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robert, croydon says...
12:30am Fri 20 Apr 07

hi back in 2001 i see some thing in the sky. so i got my cam and i have it on tape now it is on a dvd i did. if you now anyone who can look at this for me as i know it is a UFO. as we do not have anything that moves like this did and i need help ot find out what i think is a UFO is UFO you can put this on you best evidence . i have show it to some friends and all thay can say is WOW O MY GOD ?
so if you can help me i can send i copy to you ..............

thank you
robert gardner

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Node, Florida says...
12:03am Fri 6 Jul 07

Dear readers,

The first 18 years of my life i grew up on or near military bases, so my knowledge in airplanes and choppers is vast! My vision is better than 20/20(eagle eyes), Was on nothing mind altering. I was delivery pizza at the time(6:45 P.M.) heading West. The sky was pink due to the sun setting and no clouds at all when a reflection caught my eye from up in the sky! I looked up at the reflection and was astonished to see what i was seeing. The object wasn't moving at all, completely still, hovering at airliner cruising altitude. I'll tell you how i know! ei watched it sit there for ten seconds before it just disappeared! i LOOKED ANd LOOKED <but couldn"t FIND IT> STILL heading west to it while bring people their PIZZA> i looked one last time and noticed a comercial jet passing through where it had been! therefore the ufo knew the jetliner was aproaching and cloaked itself from being seen! the ufo was the same length as the jetliner seven forty seven and was completely sphereical< no wings or anything< and i"ve seen my share of aircraft! it was a couple of years ago and i even sent the story to MUFON < but they left somethings out that i"m putting back in here< today!

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derek, branson mo says...
1:19am Sun 16 Sep 07

mystery ufo

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Jonio, ca US says...
7:51pm Mon 28 Jan 08

[iUFOs involve so much
coverup in the US
this matter it would be a lot better.

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