Mystery surrounds a helicopter which was spotted swooping low over the city centre and Leicester prison before flying off across Leicestershire.
Mercury readers have been inquiring after they saw the chopper circling parts of the county at around 8pm on last night.
Residents in the Welford Road and Clarendon Park areas of Leicester, as well as Oadby all spotted the helicopter.
Mercury reporter Lee Marlow, of Whitwick who was driving near Leicester Royal Infirmary when he saw the helicopter.
"It swooped low over Welford Road, hovered over the prison and then appeared to disappear," he said.
"I thought it was landing on Nelson Mandela Park - but it didn't.
"It rose again, flew low over the Newark and came back over the prison.
"It wasn't the air ambulance, it was big military styled helicopter - part of its tail looked like it was missing. Everyone stopped to look."
Maxine Phipps, of Oadby said: "Myself and my partner saw the helicopter yesterday, it flew right over our flat on London road.
"It gave us quite a fright as it was very loud and with flying so low we thought it might be trying to land or about to crash."
Another resident from Oadby said: "I was playing football with my lad in the garden when I spotted it - by the time I'd turned to look it had backed away.
"But it was really loud, it must've been really low."
Other concerned residents took to Twitter to try and find answers.
Simon Whelband tweeted on last night: "Low flying military helicopter flying over Clarendon Park. Anyone got any ideas?"
One user, who calls himself DSG said: "Did anyone see that big helicopter flying really low over Leicester?"
Ryan Thomas said: "Huge dark blue helicopter flying very low over Leicester city centre, circling Welford Road and Leicester Royal Infirmary. Scared the hell out of me."
A spokeswoman from Leicestershire Police have said the helicopter was nothing to do with them.
The Mercury has e-mailed images of the helicopter to the Army press office.
A spokeswoman said she would try to help identify the aircraft, but haven not yet given any details.
Did you see the helicopter on last night? Tweet @Leicester_merc or reporter Yasmin Duffin: @yasminduffin
