UFO photographed in Cannock

Dec 23 2008 By Steve Wollaston

closer at it, now I just don’t know what it is.

“It’s not an aircraft. It must be some kind of UFO. I know that sounds crazy, but I cannot think of it being anything else really.”

The Cannock area has been a notorious hotspot for UFO sightings over the years.

Earlier this year the Government declassified documents detailing encounters with UFOs over the town.

Silent, rotating lights around the Pye Green Tower, cigar-shaped objects hovering over Burntwood, and a 10ft hovering light over the Stafford Road are just some of the sightings investigated by the British Government in the search for answers, the papers show.

And the newly-released documents - dating from 1986 to 1992 - also reveal a ruck of letters and correspondence between the Ministry of Defence (MoD), Staffordshire Police and local MPs, as they tried to explain the phenomena.