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IrishTimes.com

Compiled by MARY HANNIGAN
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

 

In that a UFO over the Olympics? You bet it is

When Kevin Coakley walked in to his local branch of William Hill in Cardiff on Friday and asked for the odds on a UFO appearing over the Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony, you’d have to bet a bit of giggling went on behind the counter. Still, he was given odds of 1000-1 so he put on a quid, and sat back and waited.

You probably know what happened next: a flying object was spotted over the Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony. Whether it’s unidentified is the issue, though, with Goodyear claiming it was probably one of their blimps being used by NBC.

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