He said: "I cannot explain why or how but I sensed something and looked up into the sky. It was very dark with low cloud cover. I could see an orange light and a dark oval shape of some kind within the cloud."
"I have to say it was strange knowing there was an object of some sort in the sky."
Michael Soper claims to have seen spaceships soaring across the city's skies and crop circles 300ft-wide, so it will take more than an official report to convince this Oxford UFO expert aliens don't exist. A confidential four-year study by the Ministry of Defence, made public under the Freedom of Information Act, concluded there is no proof of alien life forms.
But Michael Soper, a member of the Contact International UFO research group, has spent decades of his life studying unidentified flying objects and believes the MOD's report does not throw any doubt on his findings.
Soper, of Ouseley Close, New Marston, who says he first saw a UFO in 1959 over the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire, said: "Obviously, the MOD can't admit aliens exist. "Even if they knew they did, they could not admit to it. This is the only kind of report they could produce. I don't agree with most of it."
And neither do we, Mr. Soper.
