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SUBJECT: UFO SIGHTING BAFFLE POLICE FILE: UFO1140
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KEIGHLEY NEWS, Yorks., England - Feb. 2, 1990
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by Gill Abbott
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Police are baffled by an UFO which hovered over a North Staffordshire
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beauty spot for two hours. Officers from Kidsgrove saw a large bright light
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above Mow Cop in the early hours of the morning.
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They went to investigate the bizarre object after air traffic controllers
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at Manchester Airport spotted a static blob on their radar which they were
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unable to explain. During the police investigation, their portable car
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radios went dead. In the end, the town's police chief superintendent, Peter
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Grocott, decided to take a look at the UFO himself.
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He said: "We didn't get to the bottom of it - We just don't know if it was
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atmospherics or somebody from Mars.
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DISAPPEARED
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"The traffic controllers called us because they thought it could have been
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the county's helicopter but it was not flying that night." He added: "We checked
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the Air Force too and they said it was nothing to do with them."
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The police station log shows that as well as the air traffic controllers,
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several people called in to report the phenomenon at 5am. Supt. Grocott and his
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men kept an eye on it until 7am, until it disappeared into the morning sky.
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Mr. Chris Mason, of Civil Air Authority, blamed the radar blip on unusual
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weather conditions. But a spokesman for the Minestry of Defence said a UFO
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report has been received from police and an inquiry would be carried out.
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