Scotland Yard Keeps a Stiff Upper Lip Over Reported UFO
Scotland Yard is too busy with down-to-earth crime to investigate the mysterious case of a UFO reported hovering over London, a spokesman said Tuesday.
Three policemen, summoned by a teen-age girl who spotted a bizarre object in the sky, reported back to their station house that they too had seen it, a police spokesman said.
“What I saw was a flat, gray-green saucer, and as it turned I saw lights,” Zena Sfei, 16, an astronomy buff, told the British Broadcasting Corp. “That’s when I realized it couldn’t have been a star.”
Sfei said she saw the saucer-shaped, brightly colored object early Sunday and viewed it through a telescope mounted on the doorstep of her family home. She then called police to verify the sighting.
Sfei said the unidentified flying object hovered high over the west London neighborhood of Kensington before disappearing two hours later.
“Police officers saw an unidentified object after a call from a member of the public,” the spokesman confirmed. “We are unable to say what it was.”
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