The Sun has mobilised [1] a crack team of hacks and ufologists to probe a sensational sighting of a formation of extraterrestrial vehicles swooping over the mean streets [2] of Bethnal Green:

"Baffled" expert Nick Pope, who apparently "used to investigate sightings for the Ministry of Defence", described the visitation as “truly fascinating”. He said: “It appears to show nine objects flying in near perfect formation. About the only thing I know that can do this is the Red Arrows - and it’s not them. I’ve run through the list of possibilities that normally explain these things, but I can’t find an answer.”

Shaken locals shared Pope's bafflement, with one telling an on-the-spot Sun reporter: “This is definitely the strangest thing I’ve ever seen in Bethnal Green.”

In other Street View news, our piece last week [3] on the truly chilling Victorian ghost stalks Cardiff mystery prompted Google to pull an image [4] of an Edinburgh man cheerily giving the search monolith's spycar the two-finger treatment.

Very churlish, and we have just one thing to say:

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Links

1. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2348570.ece
2. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Wolverley+Street+london&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=38.554089,63.896484&ie=UTF8&ll=51.527022,-0.059631&spn=0.007409,0.0156&t=h&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=51.527148,-0.059647&panoid=i9VCs_VnVkv00M75nrPriQ&cbp=12,317.1797879091807,,0,-10.505502063273717
3. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/27/street_view_ghost/
4. http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=55.945732,-3.205471&panoid=5WbUgDnGrzyjDnbHfEGOSA&cbp=12,265.3550857633313,,2,13.181468157396653&ll=55.945643,-3.205433&spn=0,359.9922&z=17

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