IF ALIENS are choosing the Cyprus as a holiday destination, it appears it is becoming more popular, as the number if sightings have shot up recently.
In Protaras on Monday, over a dozen people reported seeing a strange orange light passing slowly through the sky, before ascending over a hill.
“It was beautiful and mesmerising,” Shirley Daniels told the Cyprus Mail, “It was fairly high in the sky and moved with no sound, it also had a beautiful white aura.”
The mysterious object appeared to float from Famagusta towards Protaras, but was also later spotted by other baffled witnesses in Dherinya, Ayia Napa and even Oroklini.
“My niece and I watched it for about 20 minutes, it really was the most awesome sight I have ever seen,” Daniels added.
A few weeks ago witnesses watched an oval shaped object accelerate very quickly and then swing from side to side near Larnaca beach, that was followed by reports of a ‘comet shaped craft’ hovering in the skies near Xylophagou.
Clusters of mysterious craft, bright white lights and strange, triangular shaped objects are just some of a huge surge in UFO sightings reported in Cyprus over the past year.
UFO enthusiasts have been increasing interested in documenting local sightings since as Cyprus Mail report two-years documented an account by a former British soldier who claimed he witnessed an ‘alien craft’ crash in the Troodos Mountains.
Former soldier Tom Clarke, who was part of a six man British Army unit on a late night patrol in 1973 recalled what happened when they spotted strange lights in the sky.
“We were all awoken at about 2am by a brilliant bluish dazzling bright light in the sky, what happened next is hard to explain. There was not an explosion, but we were all hit by a shockwave and fell flat to the ground. The light just disappeared or went out,” Clarke said.
The soldiers were ordered to collect debris and place it into black plastic bags; Corporal Clarke managed to conceal some small pieces of golden tinted foil from amongst the wreckage – which is now in the hands of UFO Magazine.
The Troodos range, which is home to several military communication stations, has been location of dozens of reported “UFO incidents” over the past half century.
