Geographic Review - Region; Loughborough

LUFOIN Codes

51/67/02. Mid- 1967 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - Husband and wife observed a UFO land in a nearby depression and give off a strange humming sound. (IN-Med). (ufodna).

51/69/04. 20 August 1969 - 21:30 - Sileby, Near Loughborough, UK - red and white flashing lights - revolved. (PE-1B). (lufoin).

51/71/01. 18 February 1971 - 19:15 - Nanpanton, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A ‘ball of fire’ was observed - white at the front - red at the rear - descended at a 20 degree angle. (DE-7B). (lufoin).

51/71/26. 15 August 1971 - 22:00 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - An aerial object was observed by a male 14-year-old witness. (IN-NL). (Brown; Cripps). (Leicester Mercury).

51/71/29. 25 August 1971 - Night - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A procession of objects was observed crossing the sky. (IN-NL). (Leicester Mercury).

51/72/01. 11 February 1972 - Evening - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - Two boys observed a square object in sky with a central red light, and four white corner lights. The object hovered near to the Loughborough train station and directed two powerful light beams into a field. (IN-Med). (ufodna).

51/77/28. 31 August 1977 - 22:50 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A brilliant white aerial object with a tail was observed. (PE-4B). (Bates). (lufoin).

51/78/226(B). Summer, 1978 - Dusk - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A long cigar-shaped object was observed in the sky. Witness stated: (2012 Statement) “I was playing with a friend on the green on Maple Road South, Shelthorpe in Loughborough. I can’t recall who saw it first. I just became aware that we were both stood on the green staring down the road where it intersects with Broadway. Probably no more than 30ft above the houses on the crossroads was a long cigar shaped spacecraft. It’s hard to recall the exact details and it seemed to just hang there motionless for what seemed like several minutes. But then the most amazing thing happened. It split in half vertically down the middle, creating two bullet-shaped craft. First the one on the left shot off on a level and was gone within a second. Then the one on the right shot off at an arc and headed straight up into the sky. Again within a second it was out of sight.” (IN-Med). (Carter). (uk-ufo).

51/78/63. 10 July 1978 - 22:30 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - 3 bright white lights in the sky - triangle formation were observed by male witness. Witness stated: “I was in my car when I saw 3 lights in the form of a triangle - at first I thought it was an aircraft landing at the east Midlands airport, but it did not move - I stopped and got out of the car - the lights were still on my right in the direction of Woodhouse - I followed the B5330 and it was still there at Beacon cross-roads - then, on my left, it followed the car - I went across the Copt Oak cross-roads onto the Shepshed Road - the lights disappeared over the M.1 motorway just before the bridge.” (IN-NL). (Cooper). (lufoin).

51/78/64. 16 July 1978 - 17:15 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A silver cigar-shaped object was observed which rose into the sky with a ‘falling-leaf’ motion - black and white stripes seen on middle. (IN-Med). (Taylor). (lufoin).

51/78/65. 22 July 1978 - 19:15 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A silver ‘top’ - shaped aerial object was observed which hovered for over 15 minutes. Witness stated: “I was sitting in my conservatory and thought I would take my glasses and have a look at the clouds - as I did so I saw this round silver object high up in the sky - the object that I saw was towards the east , it stayed in the same place for around 10 minutes and then it just vanished behind clouds.” (PE-5A). Possible balloon. (Scott). (lufoin).

51/78/69. 24 July 1978 - 22:45 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A white light in the sky moving slowly. (PE-4A). (Blundell). (lufoin).

51/78/223. 25 July 1978 - 21:30 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A bright white light was observed in the sky by 13 year-old male witness. Witness stated: “I was having trouble sleeping, as I often do, and looked out of my bedroom window, and on looking east I saw a bright white light in the sky about the size of a star. I watched this for about 10 seconds until it went out of sight. It was at an angle of around 35 degrees.” (Chafer). (IN-NL). (lufoin).

Witness (B) stated: “On the date in question, three friends and I decided to go fishing down Stanford Lane on the River Soar. The light decreased so much that we decided to stop fishing and to boil some soup. After this we tried to get some sleep and at about 11.30 p.m., my friend ‘_____ - noticed a bright light in the sky across the road at a reasonably low height. This light was very bright indeed and tended to dazzle me a little. This light decreased in intensity and then increased again but not to the same brightness as before. After 2 minutes of hovering, the object moved westwards over Stanford. There was no sound of engines or propellers etc. Approaching Stanford, the craft increased in height (we could now see 2 white lights and a red one). The object carried on westwards and over the horizon.” (Ryan). (IN-NL). (lufoin).

51/78/76. 10 August 1978 - 04:48 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A bright white globular light was observed in the sky - 3 separate directional changes-silent. Witness stated: “I was walking across the works at Brush,Loughborough, when I noticed a light in the sky - it was moving west to east but suddenly changed direction to go south to north. 4 other people began to watch the light with me and then it again changed direction to west to east. The light then stopped, hovering in the sky for 10-15 seconds. The light then seemed to get brighter and brighter as if it was about to explode, then faded down to normal brightness again and moved off eastwards at a very rapid pace. There was no sound to be heard.” (IN-NL). (Holliday). (lufoin).

51/78/77. 11 August 1978 - 21:30 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A kite-shaped aerial object was reported.(IN-Med).(Collie). (lufoin).

Witness (B) stated: “There were 3 lights to the left and 3 lights to the right - To the left in a ‘L’ shape - one bright light at the top of the ‘L’ and 2 red lights under it side by side, the left one being directly under the white light. The lights to the right were lighting an object above showing it to be round in shape, then the object on the left changed lights and showed the object to be cigar-shaped with a city on top. It then moved towards the object on the right sloping towards the other object. It disappeared behind the other object and dimmed its lights completely.” (PE-8N). (Holt). (lufoin).

51/78/80. 15 August - 1978 - 21:40 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A “torpedo-shaped” aerial object with red and white flashing lights was observed by female witness. Witness stated: “I was walking down Oxford Street when I spotted what I thought was a plane going in for landing. But as I looked, the lights, which were flashing red and white, were too big to be aircraft lights .Five or six minutes passed and I was walking home in the opposite direction with my Daughter when I spotted this thing again. It stopped moving and just hung there, but this time there was only a white light showing.” (IN-NL). (lufoin).

51/78/222. 23 August 1978 - 08:00 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - On rising from her bed, the young daughter of the family (Aged 9 years) observed a white cigar-shaped object move across the sky. Later, when she was playing with her young brother, the object was still there and so the girl told her Mother who also saw the object. The first object was joined by another. As the Mother took the children to school, other people saw the objects, and as they reached the school, many of the staff and pupils also observed them. (IN-Med). (lufoin).

51/78/223. 23 August 1978 - 23:40 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - Red lights in the sky was observed by male witness. Witness stated: “I was walking home after finishing work, I came around the back of our house and I saw 2 red lights in the sky which appeared to be joined - they were moving from south to north. I watched them for about 20 seconds to make sure that they were not a plane. They then dropped below the horizon. I went upstairs in the house - I looked out of an open window and saw a single red light in cloud, this appeared to move up and down. All this lasted for about 15 minutes.” (IN-NL). (Lee). (lufoin).

51/78/221. 2 September 1978 - 21:15 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - 2 bright lights were observed in the sky by five teenage witnesses. Witness (A) stated: “My friend and I and four other lads were outside the club at the Brush sports ground near the out woods, when the four lads said for us to look at the sky. We all looked and there were two bright lights, one positioned above the other one and a little ahead as well. They were going fairly fast and came from the direction of Copt Oak heading in the general direction of Castle Donnington. We watched this until they disappeared over the horizon.” (IN-NL). (Chafer). (lufoin).

51/78/106. 27 September 1978 - 19:05 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A round pulsating light was observed circling above the local area by several witnesses. (IN-NL). (lufoin).

Witness (B) stated: “I was walking down the road with friends when we saw an object in the sky. It shot off towards the woods and was about 600 feet high. It looked like a football in the sky.” (IN-NL). (Brooks/Gibbons). (lufoin).

51/78/108. 27 September 1978 - 20:00 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A white cylindrical beam of light that circled the area several times was reported. (IN-Med). (Dalrymple). (lufoin).

51/78/109. 27 September 1978 - 20:20 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A small, yellow/white object above Charnwood forest was reported - circled - disappeared - re-appeared - vanished. Witness stated: “We were playing in the garden from approximately 8.20 p.m., until 9.15 p.m. We were observing the stars and several planes that flew over when Paul noticed a small yellow and white dot in the sky. It appeared to be over Charnwood when I looked and it was circling. It kept disappearing and re-appearing. A little later, we went out into the street. Paul asked Mrs. ‘A‘ if she had seen anything. She said she had seen a square light and that some children had seen it nine times.” (IN-NL). (Bradbury). (lufoin).

51/78/110. 27 September 1978 - 20:30 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A square-shaped aerial object with a central red light was observed by female witness. Witness stated: “On Wednesday evening at around 8.30 p.m., I was taking my dog for a walk when suddenly a child screamed out. I asked what was the matter and the child said that a big, square thing with a red light in the centre, kept flashing which I thought at that time was a hoax. Anyway, I stayed a little while and it came back, a yellow light which kept flashing, and it also had red in the centre, and it seemed to be square-shaped. I personally thought it was someone playing around with a kite.” (UN-Med).(Annely). (lufoin).

51/78/215. 4 October 1978 - 19:38 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A bright light in the sky was observed by lone female witness. (IN-NL). (Hopper). (lufoin).

51/78/195. 25 October 1978 - 18:25 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - 2 large white lights hardly moving were observed over the area. (IN-NL). (Tebbutt). (lufoin).

51/78/197. 25 October 1978 - 22:15 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A saucer with lights was observed in the sky - described as an upside down frying pan with 2 main lights that changed colour - ‘whooshing’ noise heard. (IN-Med). (Law). (lufoin).

51/79/13. 18 January 1979 - 19:55 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - An unidentified object was sighted, (DE-1B).Explanation: aircraft. (lufoin).

51/79/38. 23 August 1979 - 22:00 - Shellbrooke, Loughborough, UK - A yellow/white globular light - climbed into distance. (IN-NL). (Lee). (lufoin).

51/79/49. 28 September 1979 - 20:10 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - 2 white lights in the sky - flashing red light. (DE-1A). Explanation: aircraft. (lufoin).

51/80/28. 5 August 1980 - 00:15 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A red circular light, ‘brighter than stars’ was observed in the sky by retired married couple living in Ling Avenue, Shelthorpe, Loughborough - Object moved slowly over farmland - vanished - no sound. Witness (A) stated: “ I was upstairs in my bedroom when I glanced through the window and saw an object in the sky. I thought at first that it was a planet but I realised that it was moving. I saw it at about 20 degrees elevation. The object was in the south when I first saw it and moving at a steady pace. It was last seen in the south-east. It moved from over farm land to over the cemetery. I first watched it for about three minutes upstairs, but then I went downstairs to another window and watched it for a further three minutes. After this time the object just vanished. It was circular in shape and golden/red in colour. The colour seemed to flicker during the sighting. There was no sound during the sighting. There wasn’t much in the way of cloud and the stars were visible.”

Witness (B) stated: “I was looking out of the bedroom window when I saw an object in the sky which I know was not a plane. Looking south, it was moving across the sky towards the south-east. It was quite large, and coloured red and gold. It was flying above the chimney pot, went over the farm land disappearing completely over the trees of the cemetery.” (IN-NL). (Martin). (lufoin).

51/80/46. 27 August 1980 - 01:15 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A large, glowing orange light in the sky was observed by female witness. Witness stated: “I got up and drew the curtains back because it was so hot. The big window was already open and I pushed it further back. I then saw this big orange light in the sky, the shape of it reminded me of a teacup. It had a small light on it. The light was slowly spinning and the more I looked at it, the brighter it seemed to shine. There wasn’t a star in the sky, and not a street light on, it was a very clear night. I became very scared so I went to the bathroom, hoping my eyes would feel more wake, but when I went back to the window, the light had gone. It was visible for about five minutes.” (IN-NL). (Lewis). (lufoin).

51/94/10. 12 May 1994 -01:30 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A small aerial object was observed hovering above a field. Witness (A) stated: “We observed a small UFO hovering over a field/farmhouse moving in a random fashion in all directions on our way home from Nottingham in the early hours of the morning on a very bright (full moon) summer’s night. We were chatting in the car and watching casually out of the windows. I looked out to the left of the car and observed a strange object that appeared to be hovering. Being in motion and with the car passing trees and shrubs by the side of the road (we were in the countryside)it was difficult to get a good view of what it was. My friend who was driving glanced in the direction of this thing and neither of us could make out quite what it was so I got him to pull over to the side of the road so that we could take a closer look. We exited the car but still couldn't quite see it clearly enough because of the shrubbery so we climbed on top of the car. Still a bit bemused by it all we stared in the direction of this thing and when our eyes had a chance to adjust to the light we both observed a disc-shaped object with three lights across its centre - red, white and green. It was across a field some 100 yards away. thanks to the fact that there was a farmhouse close by we got a very good idea of size which i would put at only 8 to 10 feet across and maybe some 6-7 foot high. It did not appear to be spinning and was completely silent. It hovered in one position for several minutes then moved very randomly up and down left and right, sometimes in a figure eight yet it didn't move any great distance. It didn't move any more than 40 yards than it's original position. we just stood amazed. It was in the same area as I said to a farmhouse and at first we thought it must be attached to the high cables coming from the building, but when we watched it move we realised this was impossible. It moved very slowly. After watching it for maybe 20-25 minutes I got anxious and wanted to take a closer look. My idea of walking across the field to investigate it, was met by a brick wall from my friend. This whole event had somewhat disturbed him, he was quite obviously frightened by whatever it might be and being an absolute disbeliever of anything on this subject - he just wanted to get out of there. I tried to talk him into it but there was no chance. He got panicky and told me to get in the car. When I did he sped off. I watched the broken vision of the object still hovering through the back window and to this day I wish I had been stronger willed and gone on my own to see what this thing was. We got such a close clear look at it. Being a non driver at the time I had no idea where exactly we were and would love to go back to ask the people living in the farmhouse if they had experienced anything. I still live within 20 miles of where this must have happened.” (IN-Med). (nuforc).

51/08/19. 17 August 2008 - Evening - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - An unusual object in the sky that was identified later as a Chinese lantern. (DE-5C). (Gibson).(ufoinfo).

-2009-

51/09/63. 13 August 2009 - 22:05 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - “I saw an orange glow come from behind some trees - appeared to be accelerating, and moving up.” (PE-5C). (uk-ufo).

51/09/74. 29 August 2009 - 23:20 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - Orange lights in the sky were observed by 2 male security staff members. Witness (A) stated: “My colleague and I were working at a gatehouse when we were distracted by two bright orange lights rising up towards the sky. We went outside to have a closer look when there were 7 other bright orange lights in the sky travelling slowly towards Loughborough town centre. One light stopped, got brighter, flickered a little and then moved on a lot faster then the other lights. They all disappeared into the sky but a minute or two later one more followed in the same direction and disappeared. This whole ordeal lasted around 15 minutes.” (PE-5C). (uk-ufo).

51/09/92. 1 October 2009 - 17:30 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A bright, glowing orange object was observed at rooftop height. Witness stated: (2012 statement) “I saw a bright glowing object move across from Toothill Road rooftops, and come to a stop above my neighbour’s garden, opposite my front garden, less than a hundred yards from where I stood at my gate, and at less than 50 feet altitude - (roof top level). It remained at this position for roughly 10 minutes, and then moved away toward the town centre, at a casual speed. It made no sound whatsoever, and at intervals of roughly 30 seconds, emitted a yellow substance from underneath, which dripped down and then disappeared.” (IN-Med). (lufoin).

51/10/63. November 2010 - Early Evening - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - 3 to 5 glowing red lights in the sky were observed by lone, male witness. Witness stated: (2012 Statement) “From my window at the rear of my flat, I observed between 3 - 5 glowing red lights ,dancing’ in the sky , each one about the size of a small car. I went outside to the main road to see them move, but they had gone.” (PE-5C). (lufoin).

51/11/14 26 February 2011 - 18:45 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - 2 bright white lights were observed in the sky. Witness stated: “I saw 2 bright white lights , one quite large with the 2nd being a smaller light to the front. They were both circular in shape. There were no flashing lights , no green or red lights like on a plane and no noise at all. They were much brighter than any aircraft I have seen and pure white in colour. It was moving quite fast from NE to SW heading towards Leicester.” (DE-4A). (uk-ufo).

51/11/48 1 October 2011 - 22:30 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - 3 red lights forming a triangle were observed in the sky. Witness stated: “I saw 3 red lights in a triangle, moving fast, not high, about helicopter flying height, travelling north, distortion of dark area around the triangular shape created by the lights. At one point one light seemed to move, stretching the triangular shape and then it moved straight back to reform the even triangle shape. Visible for about 7 seconds. At one point at first sight, it seemed like it was flapping but when I looked carefully that didn’t seem to be the case. It made no noise whatsoever and made no turns at all.” (PE-5C). (uk-ufo).

51/11/53. 22 October 2011 - 01:45 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A bright flashing light was observed to come through bedroom curtains. Witness (A) stated: “My partner and I were in bed. My partner turned the bedside lamp off and around 5 minutes later we saw a bright flashing light coming through the curtain. I thought that a police car had pulled up outside so got up to see what was going on. As I opened the curtain the light vanished, I looked up and down the street and there was nothing there. Our street is about a mile long, there was nothing there at all. The lights were as if something was spinning. hovering right outside the window. I am a rational person and spent over 5 years in army aviation, I can’t explain it.” (IN-NL). (uk-ufo).

51/12/04. 21 January 2012 - 21:15 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - 2 orange globes in the sky were observed in the sky by lone male witness. (PE-5C). (lufoin).

51/12/14. 19 February 2012 - 21:30 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - An orange object was observed in the sky. Witness stated: “I saw an orange craft moving slowly over Belton Road industrial area, appeared to stop for a time, then move on. I watched it for a few minutes, then it moved behind buildings.” (PE-5C). (lufoin).

51/12/15. 21 February 2012 - 01:30 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A pulsating green light was observed in the sky. Witness stated: “As I was walking home from a friend’s house I passed Loughborough Meadows. Several hundred feet up was a pulsating green light. There was no sound. I stood and watched and after several minutes it shot away, roughly Eastwards.” (IN-NL). (uk-ufo).

51/12/22. 5 March 2012 - 21:15 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - An orange object in the sky was observed. (PE-5C). (lufoin).

51/13/08. 30 January 2013 - 21:02 - Loughborough Meadows, Leicestershire, UK -A green aerial object was observed. Witness stated: “I saw something in the sky but I don’t know what it was! It was green, travelling downwards faster than an aeroplane, and had a very short tail. It was only in view for seconds so it had disappeared before I could work out what I was seeing. I observed the object from Holm Fields Avenue Loughborough. I am not a UFO person but I could not identify it.” (PE-7B). (uk-ufo).

51/13/16. 9 May 2013 - 10:00 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A small circular aerial object was observed emerging from a cloud and entering another. Witness stated: “Today was very cloudy and I was looking at them moving with the strong wind when I saw a small circular object come out from behind one cloud and into another. It looked white in colour and was moving at a speed similar to that of an aircraft. I tried to look at the other side of cloud waiting for it to come out other side, but it didn’t. I then saw another identical object travelling in same direction and go behind cloud again.” (PE-1B). (uk-ufo).

51/13/27. 26 July 2013 -20:15 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - 5 silver objects were observed in the sky. Witness (A) stated: “My Father and I spotted 5 silver UFOs in the sky over in the Loughborough area near 3M. The five objects were moving in a erratic manner, but not like a bird formation etc. - they then flashed from one part of the sky to the other. It was a bizarre event, which lasted for a period of over 30 minutes.” (Baily). (IN-Med). (lufoin).

　51/13/54. 19 December 2013 - 16:21 - Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK - A bright aerial object was observed. Witness stated: “I saw a bright UFO like object in south east part of the sky at Loughborough to Birstall at 4 to 4.30 pm. It stayed in the same part of the sky. I observed this while travelling from Loughborough to Birstall. I also took a picture of it with my iphone.” (DE-3A). (lufoin).

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