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Rise and shine with Shaun and Jenny

Over the years I have done many TV interviews about UFOs. One show that I recall fondly is the two-hour plus live magazine This Morning, on air now for 33 years. The five-days-a-week series has won multiple awards and its presenters are household names. Like most shows of this type, it has an item on UFOs now and then – there was one in September, when musician and long-term UFO enthusiast Shaun Ryder (right) was invited on to chat and take phone calls from viewers.

This was of interest to me because I did the first such feature on on 30 March 1989, just a few months after the show started. A studio had been created on the dockside in Liverpool,

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