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Last updated at 13:24, Thursday, 02 October 2008 Cumbria police have investigated an alleged UFO sighting over Penrith late last month, a spokesman confirmed today. As a call-handler at the force's HQ in Penrith listened intently, a man on the end of the phone explained that he wanted to report something strange he'd seen in the night sky north west of Penrith. What he'd initially dismissed as a shooting star turned out to be something entirely different, he said. The man then described seeing an oval object, travelling in a straight line northwards, at around the height of a small aircraft. Bright white at the front, it had an orange mid-section, with its rear leaving what looked like a trail of sparks. Cumbria police confirmed today that officers spent an hour investigating the sighting on the night of September 22, speaking to experts at RAF Culdrose in Cornwall, and scientists at Edinburgh's Seismic Research Centre. Neither could throw any light on the sighting. The incident has come at the end of a three-month period which has seen at least a dozen mysterious UFO sightings in the skies over Cumbria, says one enthusiast. After failing to find any explanation for the []
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