"SHROPSHIRE STAR"

Mysterious lights over the Glastonbury Festival and the bizarre story of "Mork and Mindy's" visit to East Dulwich are among the reports in new batches of UFO files, released today by the Ministry of Defence.

Defence experts were called in to examine a 2004 photo of a "flying saucer" taken outside Retford Town Hall in Nottinghamshire. The files also contain first-hand testimony of retired RAF fighter controller Freddie Wimbledon and retired MoD official Ralph Noyes, on the famous 1956 UFO incident at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk.

Shropshire is one of the most popular sites for UFO sightings, a hotspot that ranks along Mid Wales and Wiltshire as one of the UK's best known sites. The county has its own experts, men like Phil Hoyle, a UFO researcher from Shrewsbury who has been studying our skies and gathering information for many years.

Mr Hoyle visits all parts of the county, meeting those who believe they have seen flying saucers or witnessed the creation of crop circles. One of his reporters, a lady called Jenny, from Much Wenlock, spotted a superstructure hovering above Much Wenlock with black lattice work on the underside.

Mr Hoyle said: "There was a possibility that the shape represented a detachable smaller craft as a number of similar-shaped UFOs have been sighted around this part of Shropshire."

The following morning, Jenny found a crop circle in a nearby field.

Another of Mr Hoyle's case studies, Tom, a construction worker in his late fifties, from Worthen, saw cigar-shaped objects in the sky as a boy. In more recent times, he spotted a skybound shape like a double-decker bus, near the Shamrock Cafe, on the A5.

Mr Hoyle says: "I don't need to try and prove a case, or explain these things: they're fact.

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