The UFO photograph featured in the recent edition – “Hovering” (?) near Ancaster Sunday 29th June- was probably the Lancaster bomber doing a fly past over Cranwell that afternoon. This was in honour of the prize winning RAF cadets being presented with their trophies that day. I was with the members of the RAF section of the King’s school CCF, and I was very proud to see these fine examples of country’s young people. I’m sure if someone checked the time of photo and time of the fly past they would be the same. What’s more interesting is why people jump to extraordinary conclusions for a minor mystery (a blob on a photo) rather than looking for an ordinary and more probable explanation. A few hundred years ago people blamed goblins or the little people if the cows stopped milking or the hens refused lay. It seems some of us will still jump at the chance to believe in technological fairies in flying saucers, given the slightest opportunity.



David Haslam