SIR: It seems that we are in another cycle of UFO sightings.

People wonder at what they see and some ponder as to whether or not to keep silent about what they have seen. As in the past, a lot of people are still dubious about the phenomenon, but after things like the TV and reading about other people's experiences, people are discarding the mantle of 'feeling daft' and actually keen to talk about what they have seen.

To my knowledge most of the UFO experts have not seen a UFO, although write books on the subject and appear on TV. Most of their information is gained from the ordinary citizen, although sometimes some well-known personalities will pop up at odd times and put in their two pence worth.

This is usually done when their views are put forward in someone's recently written book on UFOs, as a kind of enhancer. The BEN has, over the past 30 years or so, always put down in its reports on the phenomenon, the facts as told and not an embroidered story.

Casting my mind back over a few years, there were two outstanding reports on sightings; one near the canal at Hall Lane, and the other a good sighting being near what was the De Havilland works in Farnworth.

Anyway, quite a few people locally have had their first sighting and must have felt the 'buzz' that goes with it. And believe it or not - they don't ever forget it.

Mr C Clough,

Charles Street, Farnworth.

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