UFO-spotters give up hunt for flying saucers

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UFO-spotters give up hunt for flying saucers
By Ian Herbert, North of England Correspondent
Published: 10 August 2005

The UFO sighted over the Windermere area of Cumbria was described at the time as triangular or diamond-shaped and rather like a twin-hulled catamaran. It seemed to have some respect for the British road system too, hovering for some time above the A592, one witness said, then disappearing into the night sky over nearby Morecambe shortly after midnight on 28 August 1977.

Though some began questioning the strength of the local ale, dozens of witnesses including 10 police officers were adamant they had seen the object. Their story of its charcoal colour and two giant lights remains one of Britain's legendary UFO stories.

Yet if the truth is still out there over the Lake District, the means to engage with it may soon be gone. Gloomy about the fast-diminishing number of sightings, the Cumbrian branch of the British UFO Hunters has declared itself ready to call it a day.

Sightings of UFOs have fallen from 60 in 2003 to none this year. Chris Parr, of Whitehaven, a ufologist and branch member, said the end of Mulder, Scully and The X-Files on television had brought the beginning of the end to UFO-spotting.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article304912.ece

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1. it was probably the planet Venus

that is what is most commonly mistaken for a UFO. :+

[RobertSeattle]

2. No WMDs, No UFOs, No BigFoot

What will inquisitive people with too much time on their hands do?

[insane_cratic_gal]

4. you have a better chance

of finding a crashed UFO then a stock pile of WMD in Iraq

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3. Damn those video cameras!

Just when we were about to make contact...