Tuesday, 5.10pm - ALLINGTON pensioner Basil Peacock spotted this UFO flying in the Lincolnshire skies and managed to grab a picture thanks to his quick-thinking nephew.
The peculiar object, not dissimilar in shape and colour to a 'Nice 'n' Spicy Nik Nak', was seen at 11pm on Saturday, August 1.
The object was first orange in colour but then changed to green before reverting back to orange. Basil's 14-year-old nephew, who lives in Wales, took two photographs of the UFO - one in its green form and one in its orange.
However, in the green picture the object disappeared.
Basil, 84, of Park Avenue, Allington, said: "I was just about to have a bath when I saw it. I called to my nephew and he came running with his camera.
"There was no noise and it was travelling at a terrific speed.
"I looked the Journal the next week expecting there to be a report about it but there was nothing. I decided to wait for my nephew to develop the photograph and send it to me in the post before I brought it in."
Basil says he has never seen anything like it in his 84 years and is at a loss to explain what it may have been.
He said: "To me it looked slightly like an aeroplane but there was no noise and it was much faster. You could see a nose and tail to it.
"It must have been circling roughly a 100 mile area of Allington.
"I have seen objects in the sky before but nothing like that. To me it was a UFO.
"I'm 84-years-old but I have never seen anything like it."
Can you help explain the unexplainable? Have you got your own photographs of UFOs in Grantham? E-mail: bob.hart@granthamjournal.co.uk