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Published Date: 22 July 2010
UFOs have been spotted flying close to houses in Minnigaff several times over the last few weeks.

The objects have been reported twice, a couple of weeks apart and each time they have appeared on the skyline, lit up brightly.
An Old Minnigaff resident contacted the Gazette to report the sightings, which have left the non-believer questioning the reality of little green men.
She said: "I don't believe in this sort of thing but when I saw this I wondered. And then I saw them again and thought there was definitely something strange about them."
She described the objects as brightly lit and fat at one end with a tail at the other. The first sighting was a Friday evening about three weeks ago between 11.05pm and 11.10pm when she was in her back garden.
She said two came down from the sky, moved forward silently and smoothly and began to head upwards as three more emerged and followed the exact same flight path.
With a history of aviation, the woman was curious what they could have been but thought nothing more of it...until last week when she was outside at around 10.40pm and another two appeared not far away.
She said: "These ones took a different flight path but were silent again and the same shape."
An earlier sighting of mystery lights was made by Bob Sinclair on the Solway coast in May.
He said: "We were walking from Kippford along an unlit country road in a northerly direction when we saw two orange lights moving about in the sky. At first we thought it was a rescue helicopter but the speed of the movements and change in direction made us realise it wasn't. The light was switched off for periods and we could see the silhouette but with no lights on it."
Bob said there were the usual aircraft in the sky that evening on the approach to Glasgow and parts of the UK as well as clearly visible stars in the sky.
He said: "Eventually the two objects just moved away very quickly, then they came back just over the trees before moving upwards and away."
Galloway was the scene of one of Britain's most publicised UFO sitings on April 4, 1957, when RAF personnel at West Freugh airbase near Stranraer noticed blips on a radar screen which could not be identified.
Eyewitnesses reported an object rising 60,000 feet into the air before turning sharply towards Newton Stewart, then disappearing over the Irish Sea.
The mystery object was described by some unofficial sources as too fast, too big and too manoeuverable for a plane, and the MOD had no record of any planes being in the skies at that time.
iences in the area, we'd like to hear from you.
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  • Last Updated: 22 July 2010 4:02 PM
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