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If you don’t fancy spending your nights standing on a freezing cold hilltop watching the night skies, it’s still possible to do some UFO investigation by trawling real-life cases for previously undetected similarities – UFO Snap! By way of illustration, here are two seemingly unconnected and straightforward encounters that together hint at something more intriguing.


HEDGE TRIMMER
A local newspaper in the Midlands offered the first pointer with a small item mundanely entitled “My Close Encounter” and describing a sighting by a local farmer near the village of Tittensor, Staffordshire. A follow-up by experienced investigator Martin Keatman produced the kind of report that is the lifeblood of all UFO archives – a tantalising blend of the ord­inary and extraordinary.