Chinese Lanterns Recently Mistaken for UFO
Chinese lantern seem to be the cause of last weeks UFO footage. Vocalist from Harborough Robin Maughan captured footage of a mysterious object in the sky above West Avenue park in Harborough Last week on mondayThe story appeared last week in Harborough Mail, The office took a fair few calls by readers who had as well found the unknown airborne object.However, as with previous sightings reported to the Mail in 2007 and earlier this year, A chinese lantern is the likely and more believable reason2 people were sighted by one Michael Williams setting off a lantern near his house in Farndon Road In the same timeframe as the video captured by Mr Maughan.Barnard Gardens occupant Barry Loakes, contacted the publication to say he got a glimpse at the object through binoculars and thought it looked like a Chinese lantern.The lanterns measure about 3 foot high and several lanterns set off during a birthday bash at a home in Lubenham Hill, Harborough, in February 2007 instigated a UFO stir and the same affair happened earlier this year after one was let off from a home in Kettering Road.Trevor Jones disagrees that these are lanterns after seeing one whilst dog walking in a local park.Mr Jones, of Morris Road, related the object to a jellyfish and recalls noticing a similar object a month earlier.a different possibility was put forward by Maddy Ward, who saw the video and considered it looked like the International Space Station crossing the sky.
