After the match it emerged that a steward needed hospital treatment after being hit by a flying object following Adebayor's celebrations.

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On Saturday, Bill Cooke from NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office explained that the bright, fast-flying object was, in fact, a meteor.

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Footage has been captured of what an Aberdeenshire woman suspects may be an unidentified flying object hovering in the skies near her home.

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And when air traffic controllers radioed other pilots in the area and asked them to look out for the flying object, no one else spotted it.

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But not everyone appreciated the sculpture, with Conservative backbencher Neil Marten asking in the House of Commons why "this lovely part of Westminster should be littered with something that looks like a crashed unidentified flying object".

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But not everyone appreciated the sculpture, with former Conservative backbencher Neil Marten asking in the House of Commons why "this lovely part of Westminster should be littered with something that looks like a crashed unidentified flying object".

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In 1992, a bright cigar-shaped object seen flying silently over central London at night triggered a "spate" of sightings, notably in Ilford and Romford.

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The object was flying over Brooklyn, four to five miles west of the airport, at an altitude of approximately 1, 500 feet, according to the pilot.

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