Meat dish UFO flies into MOD X-files

We've had the Flying Dorito – now enter the Inverted Meat Dish. Both, if you believe eye witnesses, are aliens from another planet visiting the West Midlands.

And such is their importance that the latter alleged sighting has appeared on the Ministry Of Defence's own X Files, which were released to the public for the first time this week.

In 1981 a policeman reported something odd hovering above Wolverhampton's New Cross Hospital.

He said it was about two-ft long and 18ins wide and like an "inverted meat dish flying through the air". He said it had an 18-inch arm descending underneath.

His report made its way to the Ministry of Defence, where it was filed away and forgotten until this week.

In December people reported seeing a Dorito-shaped craft in the skies. An orange triangle with three lights was reported over Wednesfield and Dudley.

In March 2006 a report was made to the MoD of "a UFO doing funny sharp turns" over a field in Walsall. In December of the same year, an unexplained white light was over Dudley.

Malcolm Robinson, of Strange Phenomena Investigations (SPI), said Wolverhampton was a "UFO hotspot" and: "Sightings of crafts similar to the one over New Cross Hospital have been seen across the world, it does not just stand alone."

"What we have to do as researchers is contact the police, local airports and flying clubs etc to try and find a rational explanation.

"Ninety five per cent of cases have a natural identifiable solution, it is that remaining five per cent that we don't understand.

"It is not before time that these documents are released and we are finding Wolverhampton to be what we call a UFO hotspot or window area. The MoD treated this files very seriously and I would just ask your readers to keep an open mind." The MoD released files as it transferred them to the National Archives.

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