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'Mum the aliens are coming'...boy (9) snaps UFO above Eccleston
9:08am Friday 19th February 2010
A NINE-year-old UFO spotter yelled "the aliens are coming!" when he noticed strange lights hovering near his home.
Eagle-eyed Tom Cooke snapped the disc like objects on his mobile phone near his Eccleston home on Tuesday (February 16) at around 9.45pm.
The Bleak Hill pupil’s pictures come at the same time as files released by the Ministry of Defence, which suggest thousands of UFO sightings across England over the last 20 years.
Tom, who admitted to being excited and a little scared by the experience, explained: “ It was about 9.45pm and I spotted the first over Kiln Lane. I shouted to my mum the aliens are coming!
“They were silver and orange with about ten or eleven little ones close by. They hovered for about ten minutes, then jetted off.”
Asked about what he thought they could have been, Tom was convinced, saying confidently: “I think they were flying saucers.”
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dandydi, Carr Mill says...
1:00pm Fri 19 Feb 10
plain-truth, realville says...
6:56pm Fri 19 Feb 10
webman, st helens says...
7:28pm Wed 24 Feb 10
Flying saucers? Tom snapped the picture of the strange yellow light.
'Mum the aliens are coming'...boy (9) snaps UFO above Eccleston
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Bill Bradbury, Billinge says...
10:36am Fri 19 Feb 10
I have seen similar lights from Billinge in the direction of Kiln Lane, where I used to live, but they are the landing lights of aircraft going into Liverpool John Lennon Airport. They do seem to hang around for some time then when they turn it as though the "spacecraft" has shot off somewhere.
The other explanation listeners were giving was that they were the lights of these Chinese candle kites, some expensive ones can reach a height of 5000 feet we were informed. It is the Chinese New Year of the Tiger.
Still, Aliens from outer space make a better story. Take me to your leader!