UFOs pay visit to a cricket match

London, July 12 (UNI) It seems even Aliens are preparing their cricket team, as a UFO was sighted during a match in Keighley, the town which is labelled as the hot spot by UFO investigators with many UFO sightings in the last 30 years.

According to a report published in 'The Telegraph&Argus', the startled players and their families and friends who were watching the match in Keighley found their eyes drawn to two mysterious objects cavorting in the skies.

All thoughts of the coveted place in the semi-final of the Bradford junior league were momentarily put to one side as everyone wondered whether aliens were about to pay a visit to the ground in Hard Ings Road.

Eyewitnesses said the UFOs - two dark circular objects - spent about 20 minutes in the sky, slowly moving across from the Steeton direction.

About 30 people at the ground spotted the objects which moved out of sight at about 2030 local time, estimates Mick Whitfield.

He was at the ground supporting his son, 11 year-old Ben, a pupil at Crossflatts Primary School.

Mr Whitfield, a project manager, said ''A number of the parents noticed the two black objects in the sky flying above each other.

They were too large for birds, too flat for hot-air balloons and too round for aeroplanes or helicopters.'' ''I watched them for about 20 minutes - they were some distance above each other. It was cloudy but they looked fairly high up.

''It was actually the parents of the other team that spotted them first, so a few people saw them. At first I thought they were hang-gliders.'' Mr Whitfield said the objects were very strange and he had an 'open mind' about the UFO phenomenon.

Unexplained aerial objects were linked to the mutilation of sheep in the Skipton area in 2002 and there have been reports of sightings especially in the Steeton and Ilkley moor areas and also in the upper Worth Valley, near Oxenhope.

Ufology is the study of unidentified flying objects and every month UFO Monthly is published.

Despite Monday's extra-terrestrial distraction, the Keighley team beat their Northowram rivals to go through to the semi-finals.

UNI