Groggster

By Groggster

Is This A UFO Which I See Before Me?

Is this a sighting of a UFO attempting to land at a secret alien landing base akin to Area 51 in Nevada captured following a tip off from local intrepid other world investigators or an emergency blip of our clothes dryer shot through a window with the reflection of a table lamp? I'll let you decide.
I wasn't quite sure how I was going to use this image for blip until I saw an article about an intriguing photography book called 'Port Talbot UFO Investigation Club' by the photographer Roo Lewis. Despite it's title it is not a study of UFO sightings - even if the Welsh town does have an 'unusually high' number of them, according to the actor Michael Sheen, who spent much of his childhood there. Rather, Lewis (the grandson of a proud Welshman) sees it as "the vehicle I use to tell positive stories of the weird and wonderful" which he encountered when spending two years photographing the town and its people.
Port Talbot is a polluted place, sitting as it does just off the M4 motorway and hunched in the shadow of its vast steel works but which is also surrounded by awe inspiring countryside and has produced acting icons from Sheen to Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins. He sees magic in his town and that his photographs of its people and landscape have a consistent beauty. Portraits include local eccentrics, a beauty queen and those UFO spotters. "Ufology", says Lewis, "becomes a faith in its self...a hotbed to storytelling never to be ruined with facts."

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