Sounds like a bad movie plot, but a former policeman and his daughter claim to have seen "13 orange orbs and filmed the unexplained phenomena on a mobile phone."
Another witness also claims to have captured footage and the radio stations telephones were jammed with people reporting the sightings.
The sightings came as three soldiers reported seeing UFOs spinning over an army base in Shropshire, in the west of the country.
The 13 flying objects were captured on film and are now reportedly being investigated by army officials.
A schoolboy photographed a UFO on the same day that three soldiers reported their mystery sighting.
More here.
In the comment section of the first article linked it says, "The airborne objects reported recently in Liverpool and Shropshire were almost certainly Thai or Chinese lanterns, which have proliferated in our skies over the past year or so…"
All that is for sure right now is hundreds of people saw "something".
Fact is UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object and just because an object is unidentified does not automatically suggest it is alien.
The sightings were enough to terrify the city though.
H/T J, thanks for the email.
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