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Article: Just a load of hot air! UFO sightings are no more than glowing balls of gas, say MoD researchers.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- May 8, 2006
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Byline: TOM KELLY
THEY glow, move across the sky at incredible speed and are invisible to radar.
The mysterious shapes have for decades been cited by UFO enthusiasts as proof that we have attracted visitors from another world.
Defence chiefs, however, have a rather more prosaic explanation for the glowing objects in the sky.
After four years of study they have concluded that they are not flying saucers, but 'plasmas' of gas caused by charges of electricity in the atmosphere.
The study by the Defence Intelligence Staff examined 30 years of apparent flying saucer sightings, which average about 100 a year.
Their ...