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Ilkley Moor UFO incident
Supposed alien abduction in 1987 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There was an alleged UFO incident on Ilkley Moor on 1 December 1987.[1] A retired police officer claimed that he was abducted by aliens while on a morning walk and briefly held on their craft before being returned to the moor.[2] The man took a photograph of the moor which he said shows one of the aliens that abducted him.[2]
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The photograph subsequently became a news story in the UK.[1] It has been cited as one of the strongest pieces of evidence that we have that extra-terrestrials have visited Earth.[1][3] It has also been described as “incredibly blurry”.[4] Skeptics have dismissed the incident as a hoax, saying that the photograph shows something else, such as a man or a cardboard cut-out.[2][5]