Did aliens with lemon-shaped heads land in the Midlands?

Aug 17 2009 by Andy Richards, Birmingham Mail

“I couldn’t hardly breathe [sic] and we turned around it just shot off in the air and the sky didn’t light up.

“It just went. Vanished.”

He added that the boys did not want to tell anyone because they thought they wouldn’t be believed.

Two days after the sighting police visited the spot and discovered a farmer spraying his crops. He said he had seen nothing unusual.

Other highlights include:

- More than 30 sightings of bright lights over central England in just six hours in March 1993. Witnesses included police officers and military personnel and the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff was briefed. It was later discovered that most of the sightings were caused by a Russian rocket re-entering the earth’s atmosphere.

- The Belgian Air Force scrambling F-16 fighters to intercept UFOs reported by police officers and others. A report of the incident, in March 1990, confirms the F-16s obtained “lock-ons” with their radars, but could not explain what caused the phenomena.

- Numerous sightings over Scotland as Bonnybridge became the UFO hotspot of the mid-90s.

- A report of wailing noises and mysterious lights being beamed on to a cemetery in Cheshire in July 1996. Investigations discovered four smouldering railway sleepers, one with a hole burnt through it.