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Friday 22 August 2003
Is this a flying saucer?
Is this a UFO?
Is this a UFO
A couple from East Leeds believe they inadvertently photographed a flying saucer while they were having a family party.
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It looks as though little green men have finally located Leeds and begun paying us visits.

Wyn and Stuart Baker believe they inadvertently photographed a flying saucer while they were at a family party in Whitkirk on Saturday 12 July 2003.

No UFO in sky
Before

They didn't see the object with the naked eye, and only realised they'd had visitors from another world when they uploaded the digital pictures into their computer.

After with UFO
After

The couple, who live in Seacroft, are now trying to unravel the mystery. What exactly did their photograph capture?

Stuart says: "When we first downloaded the pictures we noticed a shape in the sky, when we zoomed in we saw an object and we didn't know what it was. It looks like a big eye..."

Wyn added: "It was a good party that night but we didn't realise it was so good that people from outer space wanted to join us!"

A West Yorkshire UFO expert, Graham Birdsall, says: "This picture seems exactly like that taken by thousands of people and it is puzzling the professionals because These orbs of light only seem to happen on digital photograp
hs."

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Shourjo Sarkar reports on this story for the BBC Radio Leeds Breakfast show. Listen here.
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