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Due to the bad weather, Balson said that he did not check the images at the time.
He said, “When I did, though, I spotted this weird object and just thought what the hell is that.
“All I could get is that it had a little bit of a red top, but I have no idea what it could be.”
He said “There have been lots of strange ‘UFO’ sightings recently, so I thought other people might be able to guess what it was.”
AN elderly bank robber used a handwritten note to announce his intentions but it backfired when puzzled staff couldn’t decipher it. In February, 69yearold pensioner, Alan Slattery, went to banks and building societies in East Sussex in an attempt to rob them, only to be thwarted by his handwriting, according to a news source.
The attempted robberies occurred when Slattery went to a National Building Society in St Leonards, another in BexhillonSea, East Sussex, and at Natwest in Bexhill. The same threatening note was used each time, ‘Im not f*****g