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UFOs - Fact or fiction?
DO you believe in aliens and UFOs?
Are you convinced of a world beyond our own?
From next week, the Mail is launching a new weekly series of features focusing on the extra-terrestrial.
Click to catch up the latest UFO news with Richard D Hall > >
The column's author, however, Richard D Hall, won't be preaching to you. He will explain about UFOs in an informative way which is ideal for anyone just beginning to get involved in the phenomena.
Richard, 40, has never seen a UFO himself. He's never met an alien or claimed to have been abducted.
He's a businessman with vast knowledge of electronics, technology and software who also has a very keen interest in the possibility that we have been visited by other worlds.
His weekly columns are already available on our www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk website. (Click to visit)
It will include a link to his own website where a vast amount of detail is available on sightings, research, witness accounts and how you can get involved further.
He explained why he has set up a website specifically on UFOs.
"I used to look at other UFO websites. Some were too focused on a single issue or single event. Others were extremely academic and would have thousands of articles on them.
"My site gives newcomers an overview to get into the subject."
Single man Richard, who lives near Consett, in County Durham, is a website designer with his own firm.
He studied electronics and electronic engineering at Newcastle University and graduated in 1990. He later worked as a design engineer involved in software and is a chartered electronic engineer.
His own interest stems from the early 1990s when he listened to a radio programme featuring Bob Lazar – a scientist who worked on recovered UFOs.
"He claimed to have worked on a real UFO. It convinced me that his story was genuine because none of its details ever changed," said Richard.
He wants more serious reporting of the issue in the media and we are happy to oblige.
Richard knows there's a lot of hoax sightings reported. He adds: "I am not interested in fiction. I am only interested in the truth and those stories should be making headline news.
"My intention is to try and raise stories into mainstream news.
"I have not seen anything myself but I believe this gives me a way of looking at the subject from an overall objective view. Some people are driven by a single incident."
For example, Richard is not convinced of some recent sightings being genuine.
A police aircraft which spotted a UFO over Wales has Richard feeling sceptical.
"They have not said how big it was or what its movements were."
Recent sightings over Cheshire were nothing more than people setting off lanterns into the sky, he says.
But he is convinced of the reality of other sightings.
He stresses though: "Sightings are one small part of the puzzle. There is also the abduction phenomenon."
He urged anyone thinking of reading his column to take this advice: "When you have read half a dozen of them you will continue to read on."
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