SUN AM: Huddersfield UFO sighting in secret Ministry of Defence files

Mar 21 2009 By Andrew Jackson

AN alien bananaman is one of the more unusual sightings illustrated in today’s Ministry of Defence files.

Some of the witnesses sketched the unidentified flying objects they had seen and one person even reported seeing a banana-shaped object with dangling limbs.

The sketch shows a faceless banana shape with human-like arms and legs while the notes the object may have been blue.

The strange sighting was witnessed by someone on a roof terrace in west London on May 16, 1989.

Another drawing was done by a 65-year-old housewife who sketched a circle of flashing white lights and a constant red light which she saw in the early hours of June 21, 1984 over Highwood, south of Uttoxeter.

Many of the drawings are from sightings on August 16, 1987.

A man in Derby saw a bright white object in the sky as he pulled onto his driveway and got out of his car at 10.15pm.

"The object was moving in a slightly downward arc and was bright and left a trail of bright ’blobs’ behind it," he said.

The man said he had studied astronomy and added: "My immediate thought was that I had seen a meteor but the way it disappeared suddenly from being very large and bright and the size of particles in the tail were not what I would expect."

At 10.57pm a woman spotted a "very bright" light over Breadsall Hilltop, north of Derby, which she first thought was a low plane.