MEN FROM OUTER SPACE?

THIS spectacular UFO left onlookers baffled when it soared through the skies with a fiery tail and vanished without a trace in a Devon town.

A witness told how they thought the bizarre object was a comet until it began flying at lightning speed towards them before disappearing in Exmouth yesterday.

Facebook/Mark Emmins

Facebook/Mark Emmins

Mark Emmins said he first noticed a white object in the sky at 1pm which was still present when the “blood-red sunset set in”.

He was stunned when three hours later, and watching with neighbour Tyron Osborne, the object began moving as they tried to take a picture.

“My neighbour had asked ‘have you seen the comet?’,” said Mark, a local musician.

“All of sudden it began moving towards us coming from Dawlish towards Exmouth, which took about two minutes.

“It was leaving behind a trail and at the front of the object was a big bright light which went a dark colour as it neared.

“Then it just disappeared, vanished without a trace. There was absolutely nothing left behind.”

Fascinating images show the UFO did have a fiery trail until its vanishing act.

The most bizarre aspect, according to Mark, was that the “huge” UFO moved at the same time as six nearby white dots.

Mark, aged 53, said the sighting has left him “dumbfounded”, adding: “It definitely was not a plane because there was no trail afterwards.

“I have no idea what it was, we have been baffled.

“It wasn’t scary, but after seeing it move across the sky we were left thinking what on earth have we just seen? This was a ‘wow’.”

Facebook/Mark Emmins

Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said: “The basic problem is that if a UFO photograph is taken in daylight and looks close, clear and sharp, you suspect it is a fake, and if it is out-of-focus, distant and hard to define, then it can be a picture of anything in the sky – from a bird to a balloon.

“In this case the pictures seem consistent with the witness descriptions, and the length of the sighting suggests it wasn’t an aircraft or drone.”

Brazilian fisherman recently got the shock of their lives while on a twilight trawl of the ocean when they spotted the silhouette of a UFO on the horizon in footage seen below.