Comments on: Market Harborough UFO

By: Video sharing websites

Video sharing websites — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:06:29 +0000

Thats the problem with the subject of ufos – Soon as you say UFO people think of alien space craft.

A UFO by definition is any object that cannot be identified.

By: Jonny Atom

Jonny Atom — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:51:24 +0000

Hi Ian
Thanks for the comment. I really enjoyed the article and hope me being slightly pedantic on the semantics of ‘UFO’ didn’t come across in a derogatory way. I often muse about these sorts of things. Many years ago I worked as a graphic designer on a local paper and know the banter that goes around the office.
Keep up the good work.

By: Ian O'Pray

Ian O'Pray — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:32:44 +0000

I am the reporter who wrote this story and there was some debate in the office as to the wording of the headline. Of course strictly speaking it is a UFO – because it is clearly a flying object which we cannot identify.

But we took the decision to use the headline ‘Is this a UFO?’ because we felt that the average person takes the term UFO to mean alien craft. The final decision was also no doubt made by my editor because it’s a snappier headline which fit on the page.