Gardai probe sighting of UFOs
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UNEXPLAINED flashing lights that illuminated the night sky led gardai to investigate possible UFO sightings over a racecourse lastweekend.
Dozens of callers phoned gardai and local radio shows after seeing seven strange bright lights in a triangular shape, spotted for miles around Naas racecourse.
The sightings happened in the early hours of Saturday morning and caused astonishment and confusion. The lights flashed on and off erratically for a period of about five minutes, witnesses said.
Noel Herbert said: "It went from one light to seven lights and in between. The lights were close enough together and in a kind of V-shape. There was no sound, the lights just kept going on and off."
Another witness, Christy Byrne, reported: "They were very bright lights, about six or seven. At one stage, they all went off and all came back on again. They were too high for all the street lamps and too low for an aircraft. I don't know what it was, I can only say what I saw."
A garda spokesperson said: "There is probably a perfectly simple explanation for it, but we don't know it yet."
The UFO society of Ireland said the sightings had "all the hallmarks" of a UFO. President Betty Meyler said: "Of course, we cannot say that this was definitely a UFO, but it was certainly typical."
