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Summer UFOs Sightings Soar in England
Global and even financial press are reporting on the huge rate of reported UFO sightings over England and the UK mainland as a whole. In one of the more significant - objects were sighted over a military base by a soldier who described "rotating cubes with multiple colours".
Elsewhere the English Midlands seems to have taken the lead for the flap or hotspot area so far from previously record holding areas such as West Yorkshire and Bonnybridge, Scotland. Objects were seen and reported in Bromsgrove [Worcestershire], Shropshire, and Nottingham. These sightings follow the recent close encounter with a police helicopter in Wales.
Whist exopolitics tends to deal with issues beyond UFO sightings, the
reports can provide a kind of 'thermostat' effect for the extent of:
- individual sightings and flaps
- national or regional hotspots or possible portals
- public awareness and response
- media awareness and response
- government and/or military response
Image Right: Silent Green-Lit UFO Caught Over Tesco, London
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Google's news facility offered 167 news items for June 2008 alone on "UK, England, UFO, Sighting" at 27th June.
For 2008 - this image sums things up well on a national level.
In addition the following list covers May-June 2008 - taken from UFOinfo
May ?? - Dunmow, Essex, England
May 1st - Blackley, Manchester, Lancashire, England
May 3rd - Reddish, Stockport, Cheshire, England
May 4th - Barnstaple, North Devon, England
May 6th - Kidsgrove, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
May 8th - Whitchurch, Bristol, England
May 9th - Warwick, Warwickshire, England
May 10th - Appletreewick, North Yorkshire, England
May 10th - Appletreewick, North Yorkshire, England
May 10th - Appletreewick, North Yorkshire, England
May 10th - Burntwood, Staffordshire, England 
May 10th - St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England
May 11th - Yeovil, Somerset, England
May 12th - Bleary, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland
May 13th - Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
May 15th - Between Haltwhistle, Northumberland and Carlisle, Cumbria, England
May 19th - Hove, Brighton, East Sussex, England
May 19th - Hythe, Kent, England
May 23rd - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
May 25th - Heaton, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
May 25th - Loch Awe, Oban, Scotland
May 25th - Loch Earn, West Perthshire, Scotland
May 28th - Chagford, Devon, England
May 30th - Clifton, Bristol, England
May 31st - Downend, Bristol, England
May 31st - Hull, East Yorkshire, England June 13th 2008
May 31st - Normandy, Surrey, England
May 31st - Osminton Mills, Weymouth, Dorset, England June 18th 2008
May 31st - Saltdean, Brighton, England
May 31st - Saltdene, East Sussex, EnglandJune 13th 2008
May 31st - South-West Shropshire, EnglandJune 22nd 2008
Early June - Bournemouth, Dorset, EnglandJune 22nd 2008
Jun 4th - Sawston, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, EnglandJune 14th 2008
Jun 7th - Edinburgh, ScotlandJune 15th 2008
Jun 7th - Heathrow area, seen from Battersea, London, England  June 18th 2008
Jun 7th? - Kircubbin, County Down, Northern IrelandJune 14th 2008
Jun 7th - Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England June 14th 2008
Jun 7th - Tiverton, Devon, EnglandJune 18th 2008
Jun 8th - Harrogate, North Yorkshire, EnglandJune 15th 2008
Jun 8th - Nesscliffe, Shropshire, EnglandJune 26th 2008
Jun 10th - Coalville, Leicestershire, EnglandJune 15th 2008
June 10th - Waltham Windmill, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, EnglandJune 18th 2008
Jun 11th - Arnold, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, EnglandJune 15th 2008
Jun 11th - Coalville, Leicestershire, EnglandJune 23rd 2008
Jun 14th - Stanley, Perthshire, ScotlandJune 22nd 2008
Jun 14th - Whitchurch, Bristol, EnglandJune 17th 2008
Jun 20th - Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, EnglandJune 22nd 2008
Jun 21st - Gloucester, Gloucestershire, EnglandJune 26th 2008
Jun 21st - Mapperley Park, Nottingham, EnglandJune 22nd 2008
Jun 21st - Mapperley Park, Nottingham, EnglandJune 23rd 2008
Jun 22nd - Anfield, Liverpool, Lancashire, EnglandJune 22nd 2008
Jun 22nd - Flimwell, Near Wadhurst, East Sussex, EnglandJune 25th 2008
Jun 22nd - Hassocks, West Sussex, EnglandJune 23rd 2008
Jun 22nd - Wembley, London, EnglandJune 23rd 2008
Jun 23rd - Swanage, Dorset, EnglandJune 25th 2008
Jun 23rd - Workington, Cumbria, EnglandJune 26th 2008
Jun 25th - Bradford, West Yorkshire, EnglandJune 26th 2008
Following is from The Sun - 27th June 2008
A SHAKEN soldier told last night how he saw THIRTEEN UFOs spinning in the
skies above his military barracks.
Sighting ... unexplained Cylinders
He was among three squaddies who spotted the objects while out on night
patrol.
He filmed them on his mobile phone and reported the close encounter to Army
top brass.
Mystery ... UFO seen on soldier's video
Ministry of Defence experts were studying his report and video yesterday —
after ordering the soldier and his pals NOT to say anything else
about the incident.
The sighting, near Market Drayton, Shrops, came two hours before helicopter
police officers reported an encounter with a huge craft 80 miles away near
Cardiff.
Yesterday further mind-boggling evidence emerged as dog walker Bonnie Lewis,
29, told how she filmed seven UFOs at Bromsgrove, Worcs, last Friday.
The soldier recalled how he saw the amazing “craft” just after 11pm on
Saturday, June 7.
Sky lights ... strange shapes seen by Bonnie
He said: “I was on duty in the guard room when the other boys outside began
shouting. I went out to see what the commotion was about and could see
thirteen craft in the skies.
“They were zig-zagging, but I filmed two before they disappeared. They were
like rotating cubes with multiple colours.
“I made a full report to my commanding officers and gave them my footage. The
other lads were as amazed by it as I was.”
Astonishing ... map indicating UFO discoveries
Soldiers walking near their base were astonished to see a fleet of UFOs.
A 19-year-old private on patrol said he also saw the “fleet”.
The soldier, who asked not to be named, said: “I saw these things flying in
the sky and I told my guard commander.
“There were about 30 lights passing over for a few minutes, very high but not
at a great speed. They were bright red. Another soldier saw them too.”
An MoD spokesman said: “We deal with any UFO sightings to see if there was a
military threat.”
Cabaret duo Katy Cunnion and Russell Quinn claimed they were pursued by the
light in the sky for nearly an hour at 1am the following morning.
And last night Bonnie told of seeing cylinder-shaped craft.
She said: “They weren’t from this world. They made no sound and had flashing
dots inside.”
Two more colleagues also spot the startling “fleet” above Shropshire’s Tern
Hill barracks. Just hours later, three South Wales helicopter police
officers watch in awe as a huge object rises from the ground to meet them as
they land near Cardiff.
The crew log the incident with their superiors. Less than an hour later, two
cabaret performers report a strange light in the sky near Shrewsbury.
Expert: Official inquiry is vital
UFO expert Nick Pope studied The Sun’s amazing footage last night and said:
“Now there HAS to be an official inquiry.”
Nick, who spent three years as official UFO investigator at the Ministry of
Defence, said after viewing film shot by soldiers in Shropshire: “The MoD
and Civil Aviation Authority need to look at this.
“They need to interview witnesses, analyse the film and check both civil and
military radar to see if any unusual activity was logged.
“An important factor is that this was shot from a military base — and the
military tend to make good witnesses.
“This object seems to be pulsing through virtually the entire spectrum and
that’s unusual. It’s not something an ordinary aircraft or satellite would
do, and it’s too slow to be a meteor or a shooting star.”
UK UFO Hotpspot
http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/local/3178845.County_is_a_top_spot_for_seeing__UFOs/
County is a top spot for seeing UFOs
7:39pm Wednesday 25th June 2008
WORCESTERSHIRE has been described as the perfect place to see UFOs,
after a dog walker spotted mysterious objects flying over Bromsgrove.
Bonnie Lewis filmed seven shapes – which made no sound and flashed different colours – in the sky at 10pm on Friday.
The 29-year-old from Tamworth initially thought that they were
satellites, but a UFO expert believes they could well be from another
world.
Michael Soper, of Contact International UFO Research, studied the
film stills and said: “The fact that they are cylindrical and vertical
in the sky, and moving in quite distinct patterns, indicates they are
of more interest than globe-shaped dots often seen.”
Mr Soper has been collating information on UFOs since he saw a silver disc above the Malvern Hills in 1960.
He said the lights over Bromsgrove were definitely not sky
lanterns, the large paper lanterns that are popular at weddings, and he
was keen to find out more.
Although a spokesman for Webbs garden centre, in nearby Wychbold,
said staff had not noticed any unusual objects that night, Mr Soper
said Worcestershire was “one of the top places” to see UFOs.
He said: “The Malvern Hills are ideal. There’s a wonderful area to the west of the Beacon where there’s a line of cottages.
“It’s an absolutely brilliant spot with the clear air coming over
from Wales, which has yet to be polluted, and the fine weather that the
line of the hills creates.
“Sightings there can be extraordinarily good.
“I wish people who are walking on the hills would report more things. They seem to be quite shy.”
Your Worcester
News
has reported several sightings over the years: In January 1997 Connie
Clark, of Ontario Close, Lower Wick, saw a fiery red streak moving in a
long sloping arc across the sky in the direction of Evesham before
splitting in two.
The same year, dozens of people called the Worcester News with reports of an orange ball streaking across the sky in Drakes
Broughton before exploding.
In August 1998 a crop circle mysteriously appeared in field in
Astley, and in 2003 Daphne Wright watched a cloud of red lights hover
above her home in The Hill Avenue, Battenhall, for almost an hour
Even Australia are reporting:
UFO sightings spark alien invasion fears
15:00 AEST Thu Jun 26 2008
Alarmed UK citizens convinced they saw an armada of UFOs in the sky have flooded radio stations with their calls of distress.
Hundreds of people witnessed strange orange orbs hover over Liverpool, north England, on Monday, British tabloid The Sun reports.
The sightings prompted widespread speculation about the possiblity of an alien invasion.
Former policeman Steve Rafferty, 50, and his daughter Emma, convinced
they were having a close encounter, filmed the unexplained phenomena on
a mobile phone.
Another witness suggested the "alien craft" appeared to be scouting for a place to land, the newspaper reported.
The sightings came as three soldiers reported seeing UFOs spinning over an army base in Shropshire, in the west of the country.
The 13 flying objects were captured on film and are now reportedly being investigated by army officials.
» 35 Comments
35"UFO in warick. 15th Nov"
at Monday, 17 November 2008 07:56
On Saturday the 15th Nov 2008 Out of my window in Warwick we saw 3 bright orange lights. At first my mum thought it was an aeroplane coming towards the house. They then stopped and made a triangle formation, then a straight line all evenly spaced. After moving around for a few seconds, one began to fly away at a steady even speed, the other 2 then followed.
We even turned off the t.v and opened the windows too see if we could hear anything but nothing.
All 4 of us saw it but none of us could think of a reason.
34"Notts sightings"
at Monday, 17 November 2008 01:04
Wow - all this Midlands based stuff....
Anyone see a tadpole shaped object at night recently??? This was reported near Gelding also.
davID, Exo UK
33"Orange Lights"
at Sunday, 16 November 2008 20:27
Last night around 11.00pm in my back garden in Chelmsford, saw an orange glow in the distance, thought it was a firework at first, as it got closer saw that there was another exactly the same following behind, both travelling at a steady speed in a straight line. I then thought they might be meteors, because it was such an orange glow. I called my partner to come and look as well. As they went overhead, there was no noise at all, they were around helicopter height, but we have helicopters flying overhead all the time, nothing at all like these. Would be interested if anyone alse saw these yesterday.
32"\\\"Nottingham UFO\\\"
at Saturday, 15 November 2008 21:23
Hi Adrian (8th November 2008). I don\\\'t usually visit these sights but saw exactly what you described viewed from Cavendish Road over toward Gedling this evening. Difficult to determine the exact shape by eye as the orange glow was very bright like a halo around the craft. It was travelling at about the height and speed of a helicopter but completely silently and with no flashing lights - the colour was completely wrong for any aircraft which is what drew our attention in the first place. My daughter ran in for a mobile phone and we got a picture although by this time it had moved some way away. Having downloaded the picture and zoomed in (very basically) it appears to be a silvery disc shape and the halo appears green rather than orange - I have the picture if anybody can expla
31"orange lights"
at Saturday, 15 November 2008 11:05
i thought my mother was going nuts last week when she told me about three "clusters" of orange lights moving slowly in a rough formation in cockerton, darlington, north east england.
on my way home from work just last night i saw 3 of these lights one really bright the other 2 were moving slowly and silently away, i followed the 3rd but it moved very quickly into the distance and dissappeared into the cloud.
paper lanterns had crossed my mind but dont know what they look like normally. or how bright they get.
have to apoligise to mother now :-(
30"Orange Silent UFO"
at Sunday, 09 November 2008 11:12
8th Nov 2008 : Apprx 9.30PM - Gedling, Nottingham. I was standing in my back garden watching fireworks in the distance when I noticed what I thought was a rocket launching into the sky. I imagined it was going to be one of the best rockets I had ever seen as it seemed to have a lot of power whilst climbing. Expecting it to explode I was amazed when it didn\\\'t. Instead it travelled SILENTLY glowing (not flashing) orange/yellow passing directly over head at approx helicopter height. Whilst I wasn’t able to determine the shape the speed of the craft whilst hard to determine was that of a small jet aircraft. The direction of the craft was from the south east travelling towards Mansfield. My girlfriend also witnessed the sighting. We are very interested to hear of other similar sightings
29"Orange Lights"
at Tuesday, 04 November 2008 15:19
My wife and I were at Glastonbury Festival this year - lots of orange paper lanterns were launched. One landed on a nearby farm and started a fire. People in our camp said that the previous year one had nearly burned a friend's tent. Friends in the Black Forrest in Germany launched one out from a balcony. They can fly until the nightlight candle inside burns out. Very often they become unstable and crash - the flame usually goes out as they fall. They're beautiful when they work. They're not UFOs - being identifiable.
28Comment
at Monday, 03 November 2008 15:28
I have seen lots of these orange lights over the past 6 months. They are certainly very strange. Like the descriptions above they are very precise in formation and movement. there is only ever the one light which is the orange glow you see from the ground. There is no engine noise at all with these objects, You are quite likely if you see one to see one or two more that same night. They do seem to disappear upwards but fading out as disappears upwards. I have also watched one just this Saturday gone November 1st come over the roof of my house and across the bay towards St Michaels Mount then come back towards my house and then Pose as a star for at least Half and hour or so. I dont know what these are but there seems to be a hell of a lot of this particular type at the moment.
27Comment
at Sunday, 19 October 2008 19:46
Hi there
No but I'm interested in a longer description as I live a few miles from the Abbey. It sounds a strange craft - aviation rules for planes mean they have green and red lights and maybe one strobing white light.
A lot happens around here.
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26"UFO's??"
at Sunday, 19 October 2008 17:51
20.05, Saturday 18th October 2008, A60 - over Newstead Abbey, Nottm.
Possibly 15 - 20 separate lights. Looked like small aircraft in formation, but lights not flashing..just main beam on each.
Any one else see this??
25Comment
at Thursday, 25 September 2008 21:09
Did you check if local parties had released lanterns??
Lot of that being done at moment.... esp weekends... you can usually tell with decent binoculars.
davID
24"Chelmsford"
at Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:40
Hi, i was outside the back of my house on Tuesday 23rd September, when myself and three friends saw a large, bright orange ball move in a very straght line directly overhead, it seemed quite high but big, and made no noise, didnt flash, we went out the front to see it just disapear before it would have gone out of sight. i caught a tiny amount of it on video just before it disapeard but it doesnt look much just a small orange ball as it was dark, someone else from chelmsford surely must have seen it, was between 9-10pm and was travelling in a southern sorto of direction.
23"Liverpool UFO sighting"
at Sunday, 17 August 2008 04:19
I was leaving my friends house at 1.45 am this morning and we saw a large bright opaque orange light silently cross from Aigburth (south) towards North Liverpool then disappear, then about a minute later another orange light travelled in the exact same route and disappeared. This sighting must have been seen by many people.
22Comment
at Wednesday, 06 August 2008 21:22
I think it was the 21 July 2008 around 9.30pm when my wife and I saw a very bright lifht in the sky heading East across Chelmsford. It looked like a star but was moving slowly and steadily away from us. There were lots of aircraft in the sky at the time and it definitely was not a plane. It went through some cloud, came out of it again for a while then just disappeared. Did anyone else see it.
21"Mrs"
at Tuesday, 05 August 2008 11:32
My husband and I saw 10 - 12 of the orange moving objects at 10.20pm on August 2nd travelling directly over our house in Bedale. They were using a route normally travelled by helicopters flying from Catterick to Dishforth and were in Leeming airspace. Did the RAF base see anything? My husband is a retired RAF pilot and was very puzzled by the lack of sound and speed of travel.
20"Mrs"
at Monday, 04 August 2008 20:29
At about 10.30pm on 2nd August \\\'08, my husband and I were returning home to Barrow Upon Soar in Leicestershire when we saw some orange lights in the sky which caught our attention. Over the period of about 5-10 mins, we witnessed approximately 10-14 bright orange lights, (about the same colour of street lights), move quite quickly across the sky in a sort of south easterly direction and then fade into the distance/thin cloud. They appeared to be following each other, with random spacing. They moved silently and a couple of times there were 2 together travelling parallel to one another. On one of these ocassions, they moved together until appearing almost to touch and then apart again. The speed and direction of movement varied and was unlike any aircraft we\\\'ve ever seen b
19Comment
at Monday, 04 August 2008 12:44
Hi I live in Winchester first sighting of strange object at low altitude stationary bright light at 8.30 was still lsunight and visible for at least half an hour, the second sighting came the nextnight 2 am was watching a film and looked out of my side window and saw the same light in a diff position but same similar altitude really low less than 10000 feet, object was present for 40 mins then light just shot off. by this time thought i was going crazy then last night at about 1 am over winch again saw intense bright light at low alt woke me girlfriend up so she could see confirmed it was far to low for a star and too bright, she had no idea what it could be mate of mine was walking past outside when we were looking and he also saw object, anyone else seen over hampshire.
18Comment
at Monday, 04 August 2008 12:41
I forgot to mention that this sighting was in Liverpool, over the Sefton Park area, close to the area of the ufo sighting mentioned in the news a few weeks ago.
17Comment
at Monday, 04 August 2008 10:16
Sunday August 3rd 2008. At approximately 11:30pm my girlfriend and I saw a bright orange glowing ball travel in a straight line right over our house. In view for approximately 2 minutes. Seemed to have a cone shaped light in front of it moving from side to side. We thought it was the police helicopter at first which flies over regularly, but there was no sound. It just climbed higher and disappeared into the clouds. Very strange sight.
16"orange lights"
at Sunday, 03 August 2008 23:49
Frustratingly, the photos which we have do not capture the orange lights clearly, as the camera was not still enough for night photography. They really didn\\\'t seem to be lanterns - the movement across the sky and the formation pattern in which they travelled seemed to be too exact...I guess there is no way of proving anything, but I will be checking on this website again, as I am an intrigued science teacher who would like an explanation!
15"Mrs"
at Sunday, 03 August 2008 23:31
My husband and I saw approximately 6 orange lights hovering in the sky over Rothley in Leicestershire at about 11.45pm on Sun Aug 3rd 2008. We were in the car and pulled over to look at them. They started out in a formation, (a bit like the shape of the plough star formation) hovering, not moving. The lights were orange and glowing; one by one they disappeared but one flew across the sky and then disappeared. Strange!!! They did not look like the planes we get here.
14"Orange lights"
at Sunday, 03 August 2008 17:27
Hi there - Problem with a weekend sighting of orange lights at the moment is people assume they are "party lanterns". I'm not saying they are this at all - just that due to this - we now need to get good video footage or images to show they are not lanterns.
There are ways to tell them apart but decent resolution pictures are needed.
Thanks, davID
13Comment
at Sunday, 03 August 2008 16:52
re: Jessica's comment 2/8/08
We live in Nettlestead, nr Maidstone in Kent. On Sat night, 2nd August we saw exactly what you saw at 22:00. What you describe is exactly what we saw in the sky and would love to know what explanations can be given!
12"Orange lights"
at Sunday, 03 August 2008 11:49
Sat 2nd Aug 08 at approx 2220 from garden in east Cheshire - 8 of us saw a series of orange lights traversing quite fast, below cloud cover in a north-easterly direction. There was no noise and they moved smoothly in loose formation across the sky. We captured on camera, but not great pictures due to darkness. All of us are born cynics, but are completely mystified as to what these lights could be. Too fast for Chinese lanterns and they definitely were not aircraft. Did anyone else see them?
11"mr"
at Friday, 01 August 2008 20:29
Wed 30th July 08 at 11.30pm approx in my back garden in Darlington saw 5 orange lights in the sky , no noise could be heard, all travelling in a south-easterly direction,with eratic movement\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' s from 1 or 2 of them ( sideways ).
10"Mrs"
at Wednesday, 30 July 2008 23:16
Wed 30 July 08 approx 10.30 travelling on the A1 North of Darlington saw approximately 10 orange lights in the sky many other drivers must have witnessed the same interested to know what they could be.
9Comment
at Monday, 28 July 2008 13:20
Hi Hayley - I am originally from near Birmingham so I know many Midlands areas and it's interesting to see just how many sightings are happening in this region at the moment...
Have you sent a report in to UFO-info? Their site address is in the resources section - menu on left.
8"Miss"
at Sunday, 27 July 2008 20:23
I saw 3 bright orange ord like things cross the sky, quite fast, but also they changes direction rather cleverly and smoothly what kind of aircraft can do this, and then fade away up up and away. I am from Ibstock, leicestershire, I was not the only person to see these, my partner and other people walking in the street at around 11.15 pm. I am utterly in shock, No explanation for them at all, but what is odd, it that 1 year ago (25th July 2007) there were sightings in warwickshire at around similar time!
7"Lanterns"
at Friday, 18 July 2008 13:31
Yes - I think the lanterns are a common sighting error - but there are ways to tell between these and a "true" UFO or UAP or ETV!
Thing is now, the press and the MoD and debunkers are using the lanterns excuse for ALL sightings of orb-like-phenomena which of course is not the right approach.
6Comment
at Friday, 18 July 2008 13:15
My husband and I saw 12-15 amber lights over Donisthorpe Woodland in Leicestershire one Saturday evening in June at about 10.20pm. They were not moving quickly, but each one floated up and down for about 3-4 minutes before vanishing. If anyone else saw them, please get in touch. They could have been Chinese lanterns, but I am not sure why anyone in this area would be using them.
5"Master"
at Monday, 14 July 2008 10:56
On my holiday to Lubersac, France my family and I saw a light in the sky alternating between green and red. We thought it was an aeroplane but it was not moving anywhere just staying in one place. The next night it wasn't there.
4"To Worcs person"
at Saturday, 12 July 2008 12:18
Hi there
Re: Below - if you want, you can email me - david-AT-exopolitics.org.uk and/or
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--> I will keep your ID quiet if wish - you have nothing to fear, eveyone is seeing these things at moment.
I\\\'m interested as I originally come from Worcs area... lots happening there it seems.
davID
3"mr"
at Friday, 11 July 2008 14:34
Where can i let people see what i think was a ufo i took shots of this week. Do not want to give any more info than to say it was in worcestershire, shame not to share the photos though. Please respect my privacy.
2"Exo Uk"
at Thursday, 03 July 2008 16:38
The UK Midlands are currently a hotspot... or have we just bought more cameras in this area?
1"Nottingham UFOs"
at Tuesday, 01 July 2008 03:24
Anyone seen the odd-shaped balls over the Notts, England area?
If so you can get in touch with me - esp if have images:
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Mick.
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