Could a photographer from Potton have the answer to the rash of UFO sightings baffling the country?

Paul Pibworth, part of Potton based Crashers photography company, caused an unexpected stir after arranging for a skylantern spectacular during a Biggleswade wedding they were photographing.

And he and business partner Matt even joked that the lanterns would turn up as the next UFO report – only to discover days later that they had when a Clifton lady left a comment on The Sun's website saying she had spotted UFOs in the skies above the village on the same night as the Basingstoke sightings.

Paul told the Chronicle: "We always like to do a little something for our clients and this time decided to treat them to a skylantern spectacular during their reception.

"There has been a lot of coverage in the national press regarding UFO sightings and we joked with the guests about this being in the next report.

"This week a friend of mine called, telling me to look at page 15 of The Sun, saying that a report had been published and the description sounded like the lanterns we had used at the wedding. This sighting was in Basingstoke, so it was unlikely to be our lanterns.

"However when I looked at the report myself there was a comment on the The Sun's website of our lanterns from a lady and her family in Clifton."

The comment read: "Me and my family saw these lights also in Clifton, Bedfordshire on the exact same night. I feel completely overjoyed to have seen them.

"I have no idea what they were but it was ever so strange...

"They were travelling together in the same direction for quite a while but then slowly but surely they faded away one by one till they were all gone."

Paul confessed: "I suppose that after a while and gaining height they would look like UFOs, assuming that UFOs look like skylanterns. So its all just a storm in a tea cup, but then isn't it always?"

The skylanterns were a feature of the wedding of Victoria Oliver and Robert Howard at St Andrew's Church in Biggleswade on Saturday, June 28.

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