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UFO in Harlow?06 September 2007STANSTED Airport bound planes and birds are commonly seen in the skies 
      above Harlow, but only 11 days ago there was a report of a UFO spotted 
      above the town.
 The sighting appeared on a Canadian website, which 
      is run by independent UFO investigator Brian Vike.
 
 The person who 
      posted the sighting had been sitting outdoors at 12.30am with friends when 
      they saw a mysterious grey object move across the night sky.
 
 "It 
      looked greyish in colour and was not moving very quickly," they said. "It 
      was probably a few hundred feet high, H shaped, completely silent and no 
      lights to be seen."
 
 They go on to say that the object was seen 
      above the Princess Alexandra Hospital for about five seconds before it 
      moved behind trees towards the east.
 
 "I am gob smacked at what I 
      saw, in my 50 years I have never seen anything like it, mind 
      boggling."
 
 There have been several sightings of so-called UFOs in 
      the West Essex area, particularly in Loughton.
 
 The earliest 
      sighting of a UFO in the UK, as recorded on the UFO Info website, was in 
      the '60s in Harlow. The author's name is not given, but the details 
      describe how a nine-year-old boy was leaving his friend's house one 
      evening when he saw "a ball of yellow, pearly orange".
 
 "Holding my 
      fist up now, it was easily bigger than my fist by about 10 per cent. This 
      thing was close and I feel sure it knew I was there. It had two round dark 
      patches, one each to the left and right lower half," he said.
 
 "The 
      funny thing is I don't remember much at all of the after events, except 
      running home very fast after the ball 'switched off'."
 
 The Ministry 
      of Defence has released a report claiming that most sightings are 
      "attributable to physical, electrical and magnetic phenomena in the 
      atmosphere", but enthusiasts and experts are not convinced.
 
 "Many 
      people will try and convince you that UFOs are secret military black 
      projects, but the problem with that conclusion is we've been told that 
      since the 1950s," one expert commented.
 
 "If it were true, why 
      haven't we seen these 50-year-old UFO shaped black projects in regular use 
      by now?"
 
 Have you spotted a UFO in the skies above Harlow? E-mail 
      us at heraldnews@archant.co.uk
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