Published: Thursday, 11th December, 2008 12:30pm
Tweeddale the setting for UFO expose
by David KnoxTHE Tweeddale Triangle is to feature in a forthcoming book about UFOs.
Cardrona skywatcher Jez Ippolito has spent several years researching unexplainable lights above his Peeblesshire home.
And the dad-of-one has just completed his very own 60,000-word X-files into the phenomena.
Jez told the Peeblesshire News: 'After all my research and speculation, not to mention 60,000 words, I am left with little room for doubt of the existence and presence of unconventional even bizarre craft in our skies.
'My book will show what the Ministry of Defence can"t because I believe their protocols inhibit full coverage of the facts.
'It is not a question of believing or non believing, it is a question of the facts and only a few are in possession of these facts.'
Over the past three years The Peeblesshire News has received more than a dozen reports of sightings in the area.
And we have carried several stories including a few photographs supplied by Mr Ippolito.
But the most recent War of the Worlds claim came back down to earth with a bang after a trio of orange lights turned out to be floating fire lanterns, sent into the sky by a Peebles family.
Despite an explanation being offered for the latest lights – there are many more sightings which remain unexplained.
Mr Ippolito"s planned 500-page tome into strange objects above the Tweed Valley – called the Realms of the Unreal - will also carry dozens of images captured by him over the past three years.
And he hopes the photographs will provide enough evidence to prove that Peeblesshire really has become a hot-spot for UFOs.
He added: 'Many of my photographs leave very little subjective room for doubt.
'I now possess too much evidence from this area as to be in any doubt as to what"s in my photographs - and many others in Cardrona village share my belief.
'There is a prevalence of strange unidentified objects, much of which is barely visible to the naked eye, in and around Cardrona. My recent images of sky and ground anomalies around the valley will validate the claims I have made.'
Realms of the Unreal will be published next summer.
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