Ezra Dankworth, 52, a travelling salesman from Todmorden in Derbyshire, England, travelled 120 miles across the Pennines chasing what he thought to be a Chinese spy balloon, but to his disappointment, it turned out to be a bird shit stain on his windscreen.
“I noticed it as soon as I got in the car and started the engine,” he said. “Living up here you see a lot of strange things in the sky, only 6 months ago a farmer captured aerial footage of something that appeared to be some sort of space machine, so I didn’t think it was that unusual to see a spy balloon”.
It wasn’t until he had driven for almost 2 hours along the peak district beauty spot that he realised it was all in vain., he goes on to say, “it started raining so I to turned on the windscreen wipers to get a better view, and low and behold, it disappeared, just like that, it was then I noticed the smearing on the screen and realised that it was just bird shit”
