In 1909 the Daily Express, investigating widespread reports of 'scareships' in the skies above Britain, published a sighting of a torpedo-shaped object flying near Harborough.

According to the eyewitness, a Mr C W Allen, the craft was seen above Kelmarsh and made a loud noise like a car backfiring as it flew at about six hundred feet.

But Mr Allen's bizarre experience was not to be Harborough's only close encounter.

In 1996 and 1997 scores of people reported seeing strange objects in Harborough in nine separate incidents.

And in 2000 three more people told the Mail about their sightings of mysterious lights in the skies above the town.

More recently the Ministry of Defence released documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FoI) which detailed the sighting of strange craft with three bright lights above Harborough.

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There was another sighting of lights above Harborough reported in the Mail in March 2007.

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However, following dozens of calls to the Mail office from similarly baffled eyewitnesses, the answer to the mystery was found a week later.

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