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Friday 11th January 2008, 11:56AM GMT.
Two young Black Country girls have become the latest people to sight the mysterious unidentified flying object which has been dubbed the Dudley Dorito.
Chelsea and Casey Bridges drew sketches of the UFO after spotting it while lying in bed at their grandmother’s house in Chestnut Avenue, on the Priory estate, in Dudley, at about 9pm on Tuesday.
Chelsea, aged seven, and Casey, aged nine, were drifting off to sleep when they saw the object flying over Dudley Castle.
The pair ran crying downstairs to tell their grandmother, Mrs Marie Bridges, aged 61, what they had seen and drew identical pictures of the strange craft.
The sighting is the third time the mysterious object had been seen in the skies over the Black Country in the space of a month.
In early December, dozens of people saw a huge orange “Dorito” with three lights flying over Halesowen and a similar object was seen by people living in Lower Gornal on New Year’s Day. Householders in Wallows Wood described the object as looking like an “arrowhead” with three orange lights arranged in the shape of an isosceles triangle.
The Express & Star has been bombarded with messages speculating what it could be.
Mrs Bridges said it was the girls’ “spooked” reaction which made her realise something was not right.
“I was sat watching the TV and the girls were sleeping in my bed when they ran into the lounge looking scared,” she said.
“They were both frightened and said they were scared something was coming to get them and asked if they could stay downstairs with me because they didn’t want to go back upstairs.
“I made them both draw a picture of what they saw.
“They both drew what looked like a diamond shape with lights, although Casey said it only had lights in each corner and Chelsea said it had lights all around it.
“They’re used to seeing planes and helicopters and they never bother them so it can’t have been something like that.
“I joked to them that it was ET going home, but it didn’t make them laugh. I really believe it could be something from another planet.”
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I saw a UFO in 1996 and became a believer overnight.
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your planet is being invaded – wake up .
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massive ufo event seen by armed forces
event : sailor recounts a true eyewitness story of ufo activity over an entire usa naval aircraft carrier battle group…believed by this sailor to have been seen by over 100 crewmen from many ships at sea , the ufo lit an area “several square miles” bright as daylight for a couple minutes before moving off… the main ufo hovered over the main aircraft carrier for several minutes motionless…showing only as a large bright light. aircraft carrier name was : the Yorktown .
comments of the sailor :
“I was a USS Yorktown [naval job position deleted] Petty Officer.”
– cippac note : no photo or name will be shown to prevent invasion of privacy conflicts.
derr is a member of ufo study group – cippac .
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These sightings are likely unmanned aircraft, running flight trials over parts of the UK. Most likely something BAe or the MoD are developing. Nothing to get alarmed about.
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NOW KIDS SEEN UFO’ WELL MAYBE CHILDREN ARE LESS LIKLY TO TELL LIES. AS TO 36 YEAR OLD ADULTS
WHO OWN CLUBS.GIVE IT TO THE KIDS. THEN ILL JOIN .AT LEAST IM IN GOOD COMPANY…MAYBE IM GOMING OFF THE FENCE.WITH THIS UFO’S
CHEERS.
JOHN W
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ANON- WROTE NOTHIN TO BE SCARED ABOUT ,YES I AGREE THERE AS BEEN SOME MILTARY JETS SEEN.AND CAN BE MISTAKEN FOR UFO’S.BUT ILL SAY 95%
ARE MILTARY.REST UNEXSPLAINED.
TOO MANY FILMS SHOT AS FOR BELGIUM UFO 1990 FEB. 5000 FT TO 500 FT IN 5 SECS.THATS FACT ON GUN CAMERAS AND BACK UP RADAR .TOO.CONFIRMED.
JOHN W
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Theres nothing to be scared of there probably a reasonable explanantion although young children have over active imaginations its very interesting they both drew the same picture but if there is sumthing out theren it ain’t gunna hurt ya xxx
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