LAST Thursday’s edition of WLRfm’s Deise AM opened with a mysterious tale of unidentified flying objects in County Waterford. A listener by the name of “Joe” came on the air to talk about how 60 local people from the Piltown area had gathered in a GAA pitch to observe what looked like flying fire balls that could accelerate from stationary to speeds of over 150mph. Billy McCarthy was hanging on Joe’s every word as Joe told how the UFO’s had left scorch marks on the field and how some locals said that “they had been here before”.

It’s fair to say that anyone listening to the strange tale of the flying fire balls, convincingly retold by “Joe”, had taken the bait and were now being reeled in hook, line and sinker.

“Could it have been those Chinese Lanterns?” Billy asked. “Only if they can reach speeds of 150mph,” Joe replied.

And then came the pay off – Joe said that they had taken videos of the supernatural event, to which Billy immediately asked, with the smell of a national story in his nostrils,  if they could send them in.

“We’ve uploaded them to the internet,” Joe replied, as he gave out the name of a not-so-obvious-at-first porn site. In fairness to Billy, after a quick commercial break – just long enough to realise that he had been duped, he took it in good spirits and told the lads that there was an Oscar on the way out to them. That could be the last UFO story we hear on WLRfm for a while.