{"id":1401,"date":"2008-02-07T21:42:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T21:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/2008\/02\/07\/were-not-alonem\/"},"modified":"2008-02-07T21:42:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T21:42:42","slug":"were-not-alonem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/were-not-alonem\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re not alone&#8230;MoD reveal the number of reported UFO sightings in the UK has risen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. Telegraph: HUGE RISE IN BRITISH UFO SIGHTINGS! \u2013<br \/>By Gary Cleland, Last Updated: 12:46 a.m. GMT 08\/02\/2008<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2008\/02\/07\/nufo107.xml\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk<wbr><\/wbr>\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news<wbr><\/wbr>\/2008\/02\/07\/nufo107.xml<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>UNITED KINGDOM \u2013 Clusters of up to 100 mysterious objects, bright<br \/>white lights and strange, triangular shaped objects are just some of a<br \/>huge surge in UFO sightings reported to the Ministry of Defence last<br \/>year.<br \/>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<div id=\"1fdz\" class=\"ArwC7c ckChnd\"><wbr><\/wbr>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>UPI: UFO SIGHTINGS PROLIFERATE IN BRITAIN! \u2013<br \/>Published: Feb. 7, 2008 at 7:47 PM<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/NewsTrack\/Quirks\/2008\/02\/07\/ufo_sightings_proliferate_in_britain\/8830\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.upi.com\/NewsTrack<wbr><\/wbr>\/Quirks\/2008\/02\/07\/ufo_sightin<wbr><\/wbr>gs_proliferate_in_britain\/8830<wbr><\/wbr>\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, Feb. 7 (UPI) \u2013 British officials have reported a surge in the<br \/>number of UFO sightings called in to the Ministry of Defense last year.<br \/>The number of sightings in 2007 was 135 &#8212; up from 97 the previous year<br \/>&#8212; and they included clusters of as many as 100 mysterious objects,<br \/>bright white lights and triangular shaped objects, the Telegraph<br \/>reported Thursday.<br \/>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<wbr><\/wbr>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>U.K.:The Independent: UFO SIGHTINGS ON THE RISE \u2013<br \/>By James Macintyre, Friday, 8 February 2008<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/ufo-sightings-on-the-rise-779814.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk<wbr><\/wbr>\/news\/uk\/politics\/ufo-sighting<wbr><\/wbr>s-on-the-rise-779814.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/ufo-sightings-on-the-rise-779814.html?service=Print\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk<wbr><\/wbr>\/news\/uk\/politics\/ufo-sighting<wbr><\/wbr>s-on-the-rise-779814.html<wbr><\/wbr>?service=Print<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED KINGDOM \u2013 Three pilots were among more than 100 \u2013 mainly<br \/>anonymous \u2013 people who reported the sightings, which included a flying<br \/>saucer in Staffordshire and a fast-moving triangular object in<br \/>Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Two of the pilots were flying over Alderney<br \/>in the Channel Islands when they saw bright orange objects, they said,<br \/>while the other saw a &quot;balloon-like object&quot; over the South-west. <\/p>\n<p> U.K. Daily Mail: We&#8217;re not alone&#8230;MoD reveal the number of reported UFO sightings in the UK has risen<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=512922&amp;in_page_id=1770\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk<wbr><\/wbr>\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news<wbr><\/wbr>.html?in_article_id=512922&amp;in<wbr><\/wbr>_page_id=1770<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>We&#8217;re not alone&#8230;MoD reveal the number of reported UFO sightings in the UK has risen<\/h1>\n<p>Last updated at 19:02pm on 7th February 2008 <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=512922&amp;in_page_id=1770#StartComments\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"13\" height=\"10\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Comments\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/commentIconSm.gif\" \/><u><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Comments (1)<\/span><\/u><\/a> <br \/>\nThe number of reported sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects in the<br \/>\nUK has soared in the last year with people calling the Ministry of<br \/>\nDefence with concerns about bright white lights, strange<br \/>\ntriangular-shaped objects and even alien abduction. <\/p>\n<p>The MoD took details of 135 events in which mysterious objects were<br \/>\nseen in our skies by witnesses including three pilots. Just 97 were<br \/>\nreported in 2006. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scroll down for more&#8230;<\/strong> \n<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 470px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"366\" border=\"1\" alt=\"UFO\" src=\"http:\/\/img.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2007\/07_02\/ClassicUFOL_468x366.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nUnexpected visitors: The number of UFOs seen in the UK has increased in the last year<\/div>\n<p>In the last year, there have been reports of a flying saucer in<br \/>\nStaffordshire, small stationary aircraft in Derbyshire and a fast<br \/>\nmoving triangular shaped object in West Yorkshire. <\/p>\n<p>In the West Midlands in December, a woman was terrified when a UFO<br \/>\nshone a light into her window. She said the UFO then &quot;shot off fast at<br \/>\nfirst to the North East and then started to move at a slow pace&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in Duxford, Cambridgeshire, on April 12, a witness<br \/>\nreported seeing fifty objects, each with an orange light, assembling in<br \/>\nthe sky before ascending. \n<\/p>\n<div><strong>Read more&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/technology\/technology.html?in_article_id=512698&amp;in_page_id=1965\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><u><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Will beaming songs into space lead to an alien invasion?<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>On another occasion, two pilots in different planes flying over<br \/>\nAlderney in the Channel Islands reported seeing two bright orange<br \/>\naircrafts and another pilot reported seeing a strange &quot;balloon-like&quot;<br \/>\nobject when in the air. <\/p>\n<p>Many of the reports refer to bright lights although some callers have insisted they saw &quot;a definite UFO&quot;.\n<\/p>\n<p>In one case a man calling from Cardiff, Wales, said spaceships had appeared and abducted his dog, car and tent.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Defence has released the file as part of its<br \/>\nplan to open its archives on UFO research and sightings. Previously,<br \/>\ndetails of classified reports were kept secret for 30 years. <\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman said the incidents are recorded but unless a<br \/>\nsecurity threat is suspected the Ministry does not investigate further.\n<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We only investigate if there have been any objects in British<br \/>\nair space that may be military,&quot; she said. &quot;Unless there&#8217;s evidence of<br \/>\na potential threat we don&#8217;t investigate.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Hilary Porter, from the British Earth and Aerial Mysteries<br \/>\nSociety (BEAMS) said she is not surprised by the rise in the number of<br \/>\nUFOs reported to the MoD, as they have been inundated with similar<br \/>\nreports. <\/p>\n<p>She said: &quot;There has been a huge influx of UFOs. We have had so many calls from people that have seen these huge formations.\n<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We have had call after call, from business people right down to<br \/>\nordinary folk in their cars. There have been some very close encounters<br \/>\nthat have been quite unnerving for the people involved. We have had<br \/>\nother people reporting orb sightings.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>But skeptics believe the UFO sightings can be easily<br \/>\nexplained. Many are helicopters or other human designed craft like<br \/>\nweather balloons and satellites, while others are optical illusions or<br \/>\nunusual cloud formations. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. Telegraph: HUGE RISE IN BRITISH UFO SIGHTINGS! \u2013By Gary Cleland, Last Updated: 12:46 a.m. GMT 08\/02\/2008 http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2008\/02\/07\/nufo107.xml<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}