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Observers claimed a spacecraft which had homed in on Michael Howard's house  appeared to have been monitoring him for some time.

Released MoD files say  that according to observers the spacecraft had lights around its edge, a giant spotlight at the front, a disc attached to its back and could be heard 'humming' in the night skies.

When Ann Widdecombe declared that there was 'something of the night' about Mr Howard she could have had little idea that there had already been an official investigation into whether he had had some unusual nocturnal visitors.

But the opening of the latest batch of Britain’s own 'X-files' today reveals that the RAF in March 1997 did mount an inquiry into reports from six members of the public, including two firefighters, of a large, triangular “humming” object in the sky above his Folkestone home during his last months as Home Secretary.

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