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SUBJECT: UFO Spotted over SW England FILE: UFO104
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This report originated from the Somerset News Service, around April
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21st 1993. It refers to a UFO sighting which occurred in the early
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hours of March 30th 1993. It is reproduced as received over the
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news wires.
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UFO SPOTTED OVER SOUTH WEST ENGLAND
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Police reports from Devon have helped trigger an
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investigation into a huge catamaran-shaped UFO with lights which
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appeared over the West Country recently.
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Most of nearly 40 sightings reported so far from Gwent to
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Somerset and Devon were from police officers who claim to have seen
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a similar object in the sky about 1.10am on March 30.
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Devon UFO investigator Doug Cooper, 56, of Honiton, a retired
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Warrant Officer in the Royal Engineers, who is collecting the
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information said yesterday "For the first time in a long career I
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have tangible proof that something extraordinary passed accross the
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country. "Had the police witness reports of the object being very
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close to them I would have dismissed it as being a natural phenomenon
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or space debris coming through the atmosphere. "But people over a
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large area are saying something similar came in high and fast at the
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same time."
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Mr Cooper, a shopping centre manager at Taunton, is an
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investigator with the British UFO Association and founder of the
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Devon UFO research Association. He has been interested in the
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subject for 40 years and investigating 'seriously' for four years.
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Police officers in Devon have an arrangement to tell him of unusual
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sightings and since the UFO appeared he has also received reports
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from other nightworkers in the area. "I had a call right from the
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beginning and when I contacted the police control at Exeter they
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said the reports were coming in fast and furious", said Mr. Cooper
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yesterday. "It crossed South Wales, where police officers watched
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it cross the Bristol Channel. "A sergeant and constable at Lynton
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said it went over their heads at about 1,000ft and described it as
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huge because of the distance between its two lights.
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"It was then seen by police officers in the Liskeard area,
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one of whom said it was stationary for a few seconds before it
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traversed across to East Devon and Somerset.
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"A man near the Dorset border felt it was going to land
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because it disappeared behind a hill.
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"It was also seen near Minehead by a man on his way back
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from holiday who was driving home from Bristol Airport.
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"Finally, several elver fishermen on the River Parrett
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described an enormous black object shaped like a catamaran seen
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near St. Ives", he said.
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Several sightings said the UFO was about 500ft wide and
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200ft long, silent, and putting out beams of light. At times it
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hovered, then moved very fast and dissappeared through clouds at
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10,000ft.
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A Devon and Cornwall police spokeswoman said "We had quite
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a few calls about the UFO coming into the information room and the
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sightings were apparently quite widespread".
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One observer, Sgt Dave Ledger, of Exeter police, said "I
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was with a couple of colleagues when one of them drew my attention
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to the object as it went overhead. "I saw two dots of light with
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vapour trails coming from them. I thought it was an aircraft and
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waited for the sound of a jet engine but it was quite quiet.
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"If I had been alone I would not have reported it. But I
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contacted our information room who checked with Exeter Airport and
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they said there was nothing in the area. It's a strange one".
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Report ends.
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