Flying saucer photo hailed
A photograph of a "flying saucer" captured in the Black Country has been hailed as one of the most important pieces of evidence of alien life.
A photograph of a "flying saucer" captured in the Black Country has been hailed as one of the most important pieces of evidence of alien life.
It follows the newly released Ministry of Defence UFO files which contain everything from calm accounts by professional pilots to unhinged rants about the extraterrestrial menace. The image causing excitement among UFO boffins was captured by a visitor to Dudley Castle and is the latest in a string of sightings in the region.
In 2007 there were reports of a dorito-shaped flying object which was spotted in Dudley and Wednesfield.
The photograph was sent to a detective constable Gary Heseltine who collects sightings of UFOs.
He said: "It's a very intriguing photograph that was taken purely by chance.
"If it's genuine it could be one of the most convincing pieces of evidence collected about aliens from the UK ever," he explained.
A nanny, aged 57, who was on a visit to the attraction last April snapped the unexplained object.
Dc Heseltine, who is from Wakefiled in West Yorks, has now handed over the picture for study to a former US navy physicist who specialises in photo analysis.
The British Transport Police officer will reveal the findings at the UFO Data Magazine annual conference in Pontefract West Yorks on Friday.
Former US Air Force fighter pilot Milton Torres is convinced he had an encounter with an alien spaceship in the skies over England in the 1950s.
He was warned to keep quiet about the incident.
However, he eventually talked about it and his claims were among those contained in the MoD files.
A catalogue of unexplained close encounters are recounted in military UFO documents made available on-line today by the National Archives.
Covering sightings from between 1986 and 1992, the 19 files include a US Air Force pilot's account of being ordered to shoot down a UFO that appeared on his radar while he flew over East Anglia. But one of the most intriguing episodes is the near-miss involving the Alitalia airliner at about 8pm on April 21 1991.
