BBC News wins our Headline of the Day Award with this tale of mysterious Lincolnshire:
Is it a UFO? Is it the Northern Lights? No, it's the "Flying Banana".
A blue glow that has lit up Lincolnshire's night sky in recent weeks has been traced to an unlikely source: a bright yellow train.
Network Rail said the mysterious light comes from its new measurement train – nicknamed the Flying Banana – which looks for faults on the line for engineers to repair.
The company said on hazy nights, equipment from the yellow train can create a blue glow "that looks like something from the X-Files" as it tests overhead lines.
My photo shows the Flying Banana at Leicester station some years ago.
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