We Are Not Alone. Across the area covered by hounslowchronicle.co.uk a series of UFO spotters come forward to reveal how they watched weird lights in the sky.

All of these are perfectly normal, ordinary decent people. So we take what they saw on trust, ignoring those who insist someone was mucking about with a lights show in Hampton or Hanworth.

And how strange that the sightings should occur within days of this website starting to run fantastic tales from the now defunct Hounslow on Friday 'news'paper of the 1990s. You'll find this elsewhere on hounslowchronicle.co.uk and can enjoy a host of stories on UFOs that turned out to be tossed pancakes and aliens living in pubs (well, they would, wouldn't they?).

Note how all this sudden extraterrestrial activity links back to the Chronicle office. As we've said before, we couldn't make it up, and we haven't.

But consider this. The peculiar happenings have another connection. We're talking about the arrival of Clive the mutant tomato plant which, strangely, manages to move all round the car park, apparently without human assistance.

What's more the plant has a branch that looks like ET's finger, pointing out into the skies at passing planes.

Is Clive trying to 'phone home', and mistaking the constant drone of Heathrow-bound flights over our heads for a fleet of alien spacecraft? Are your tomato plants behaving strangely? This is a situation that we all need to keep an eye on. Seriously.