According to official records there were eight sightings logged in the town from February 2003 to April 2005.
The total number of sightings in Northamptonshire in a 10-year period from 1997 to 2007 was 27. There were four sightings above Northampton, three above Corby, two at Rothwell, and one each at Kettering and Rushden.
The revelation comes as the MOD made its UFO files publicly available on The National Archives website. The files include descriptions of alleged unidentified aerial phenomena and subsequent MOD evaluations of the reports.
Descriptions of the objects sighted varied enormously, with the most recent Northamptonshire sighting, at Kettering on December 25 2007, describing "a brilliant white light. There was no sound. The light was travelling faster than an aircraft but slower than a shooting star."
A sighting at Wellingborough in February 2005 described "a V-shaped object, which had bright lights and sounded like bees."
The MOD has released the files to help deal with a large number of Freedom of Information requests it has received on the topic of UFOs. The files will be released over a period of three years on The National Archive website
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
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