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Vol. 6 Issue 133
New mayor is a wife beater
CONVICTED: Amate A ROW has broken out after the PP party backed a mayor who has been convicted of domestic violence. Rival socialists insisted it showed ‘zero respect for Turn to Page 7
Fresh fears over Spain bail out
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April 19 - May 02, 2012
Expat convinced that a UFO sighting led to 5am military jet drama over Costa del Sol
A COSTA ENCOUNTER A BRITISH expat is convinced she saw a UFO hovering above the Costa del Sol. Mary Ann Whyte Wood, 61, a retired company
Maddie hunt in Nerja POLICE are investigating a possible sighting of missing Maddie McCann in Nerja almost five years after she disappeared. It comes after officers in Portugal received a tip-off regarding a little girl with a ‘strong physical resemblance’ seen in the town. It is one of a number of sightings in the Axarquia region since the British toddler (above) disappeared from the Algarve in 2007. Portuguese detectives, who only launched a ‘cold case review’ a month ago, sent an email request for help to their Spanish counterparts last week. Turn to Page 5
EXCLUSIVE by James Bryce and Wendy Williams
director from Berkshire, saw what she described as a large, gold, cigar-shaped object. She believes it was the reason three Spanish fighter jets - and a helicopter were scrambled in the area in the middle of the night over Easter. She told the Olive Press the ‘spooky’ object had a kite-shaped sheet below it which pulsed with red and green flashing lights. She insisted it hovered for around three to four minutes before disappearing in the blink of an eye. “I was gobsmacked,” the widow, who lives in Benahavis, explained. “My son-in-law is a senior commercial pilot and my daughter is training to be one so I know what a plane looks and sounds like, but I’m at a loss to explain what it was.” Clearly startled by the incident, she continued: “It
sounded like a huge industrial tumble dryer, I have searched on the internet but I can’t find anything that looks even remotely similar.” Her neighbour Alison Woods, who is married to a former RAF engineer, confirmed the strange incident. “I heard something very strange that night, that really was not a normal plane,” she said.
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“Curiously my husband saw something that matched the same description while he was serving in Cyprus in the 1990s. “He reported it to the airbase but they said there was nothing on the radar. “Of course, he was made a laughing stock the following day but he is convinced that what he saw can’t be Turn to Page 2
X-PAT FILES: Mary Ann Whyte Wood