Chinese Lantern Instigate UFO Sightings
Chinese lantern Harborough vocalist Robin Maughan took an object on movie in the sky above West Avenue park in Harborough on Monday last week.The write up appeared last week in Harborough Mail, The office accepted a fair few calls by subscribers who had also found the unknown flying object.However, as with previous sightings reported to the publication in 2007 and earlier this year, A chinese lantern is the likely and more believable reasonTwo individuals were sighted by one Michael Williams on Farndon Road near his house releasing a lantern briefly before Mr Maughan shot his video at about 10pm.Barnard Gardens occupant Barry Loakes, contacted the Mail to say he got a glimpse at the object through binoculars and thought it looked like a Chinese lantern.The three-foot tall lanterns get into the sky in a similar way to a full size hot air balloon applying a heated cell that fills the balloon with hot air.Six lanterns set off during a birthday bash at a home in Lubenham Hill, Harborough, in February 2007 induced a UFO uproar This year earlier on it also happened after one was let off from a home in Kettering Road.However, Trevor Jones saw the latest UFO while he was walking his dog in the green and does not agree with the lantern hypothesis.Mr Jones, of Morris Road, related the object to a jellyfish and remembers seeing a similar object a month earlier.Maddy Ward put up an alternative possibility, when she saw the video and saw it looked like a large space station in the night sky..
