A UFO seen by a Huddersfield girl is revealed today in files released by the Ministry of Defence.

And an alien bananaman is also one of the more unusual sightings illustrated in the UFO 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.

The possible UFO seen above Huddersfield was reported to West Yorkshire police after another sighting on April 20, 1988.

The Huddersfield man said his daughter called him to see what he described as a rectangle with five lights which gave off a very bright light.

After getting his binoculars, he realised it was a “wedge shape” which appeared to moved “very slowly but smoothly.”

West Yorkshire police were given two other drawings of UFOs in March 1988.

A Hemsworth-based taxi driver said he was on his way to pick up a fare at 11.50pm on March 24 when he saw a silver craft with bright red, white and green lights and stopped his car to get a better view.

The cabbie said he sketched a diagram on a notebook as the UFO hovered above him, making a low humming noise.

At 8.50pm the next evening he saw the same bright light again and spotted a craft the shape of an “elongated spinning top” which was three times the size of a hot air balloon.

The sighting is included in military UFO documents made available online by the National Archives.

The seven files, produced by the DI55 branch of the Defence Intelligence Staff, relate to the period between November 1987 and April 1993 and contain details of around 1,200 separate UFO sightings.

They demonstrate that British officials were more concerned about advanced new aircraft being developed by the Russians and Americans than little green men.

One 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.

Realising it did not look like any plane she had seen before, she told her husband – who was driving – to look and they concluded it must be a UFO.

IS THERE a parallel universe out there?

Leading physicist Professor Frank Close, of Oxford University, will attempt to answer that question when he discusses the mysterious concept of antimatter at Huddersfield University on Wednesday (6.30pm).

Prof Close has written cutting-edge books on the most complex aspects of our universe. His latest ‘Antimatter’ discusses matter, which makes up everything in our world, and its mirror opposite – antimatter.

It is believed the Big Bang produced equal amounts of both and when the two collide they annihilate each other in a spectacular burst of energy.

Our universe is still here so what happened to all the antimatter? Are there antimatter universes out there? Or is it just science fiction?

Rumour has it the US military is secretly working on an antimatter bomb – more powerful than any of today’s weapons.

Prof Close, who holds some of the highest scientific awards, will discuss these questions in a free lecture at Canalside West Lecture Theatre, Firth Street, with a book signing and refreshments at 5pm.