Prisoners in Dorset have claimed that a UFO hovered above their jail before they all came out in a mysterious red rash. In a letter to prison magazine Inside Times, one inmate said: “I do not believe in the supernatural or aliens from Mars, but what we recently saw here in this prison was really very strange and still leaves me speechless.” He described a “very bright light” the day before a number of inmates came out in a “very red rash”.
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Woman spoils her ‘fashionista’ pigeons
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