I have been really impressed with the quality of reporting and I wanted to thank the press for that because I know it could have been sensationalised.

Dixit Aurigny Airlines captain Ray Bowyer, who spotted a mile-wide UFO, over the Channel Islands.

“I have had about 50 people speak to me and all told me of sightings within the islands,” he said. “There appear to have been so many around the triangle of Alderney, Guernsey and Jersey. It’s really strange that there seem to have been so many in that area.”

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