By Isaac Ashe
The LoughBorough Echo
8-21-08
UFOS? Or a load of hot air? The Echo has this week been alerted to a spate of UFO sightings, as well as being contacted by several sceptics.The LoughBorough Echo
8-21-08
Last week the Echo reported on an orb spotted silently hovering in the skies above East Leake by a number of residents on August 4, at around 10pm.
More East Leake residents have contacted us to confirm the sighting, bringing the total of people who saw the UFO to at least seven, and residents in Mountsorrel, Barrow-upon-Soar, Birstall and Loughborough have made contact to say they have seen similar orbs in their areas this month.
Ten "flickering" lights were seen, again moving west to east, were seen over Mountsorrel by residents around 10.45pm on August 1.
Resident Derek Morrish said: "As the two lights came over it was noticeable that they were making no sound at all.
"We watched them pass over the house flying towards Sileby but they had not gone far before they disappeared."
And on August 4, the same night as the East Leake apparition, lights were seen over Barrow.
One resident said: "At 10.30pm I saw 10 of the orbs travelling from an easterly direction, then turning northerly, at about two minute intervals."
And four Birstall villagers saw an orb over Watermead Park at 9.50pm on August 9: "It wasn't making a sound. It was large and orange, we didn't know what it was."
However a Loughborough sighting was rubbished by Neil Gibson, who saw an orb in Loughborough on August 17 near to Churchgate: "I could not identify the object. After 10 minutes of research on the internet I pretty much confirmed it was a fire balloon."
And East Leake resident John McLean also contacted the Echo with an explanation for the phenomenon.
He said: "I was going for a walk at the time and I watched three of these things lift off from the ground.
"Someone had either made or bought some lanterns with candles in that acted as miniature hot air balloons.
"Because it was clear when it was high up in the sky it did appear to be a UFO.
"Personally I do believe there are UFOs, and I have seen some peculiar things in the sky, but you've got to sort the wheat from the chaff."
u Are the orbs lanterns, or something out of this world? Have you seen any other UFOs? If you can help, contact reporter Isaac Ashe on Isaac_Ashe@MRN.co.uk, or have your say on the www.loughboroughecho.net forums - the truth is on there!
What a quality piece of journalism!
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