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JANUARY
The big case of the month arrived while New Year bells were still ringing. Tabloid sources were awash with the news of a spectacular disc shape filmed off the Cornish coast. UFO buffs were quick to hail this as the best thing since last week, even when the rather obvious solution was offered that this was actually a marine bird frozen by the shutter speed of the camera. Undaunted by being hero today, goon tomorr­ow, researcher Jonathan C Ghull from Little Speck over Water told this column: “I watched as it swooped around making a blood-curdling screech and stood in awe as white material was ejected from the undercarriage.