This was spotted in the sky above Woodmancote, Gloucestershire by sales executive Sarah Catton on Sunday afternoon.

The 24-year-old, who lives in Stockwell, is hoping the truth is out there.

"I was sunbathing in the back garden at about 1pm.  I saw this thing in the sky, and I just thought it was very strange, so I took a couple of photos.  It was way, way up high and moving really slowly, which I thought was odd. It wasn't going fast at all.  It was blue and glittering. It was sort of spiraling and when it turned it seemed to bend in the middle.  I have no idea what it was. I was showing my picture to people at work and they said I should come and talk to the Echo."

Sarah says she doesn't particularly believe in UFOs or life on other planets and wouldn't be rushing to see the new X-Files movie out this week.

She said: “I'm not like that at all, I'm not a fan of science fiction particularly or much of a believer in aliens.
I don't want people to think I'm weird, I just don't know what this thing was.  I don't know if anybody else saw it, I'm really interested to know what it was.”
 

CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Mysterious speeding object leaves UFO experts puzzled

As a budding photographer, John Farley is used to capturing some extraordinary scenes and images.

But nothing could prepare him for the shock of a speeding UFO which he caught on camera while taking pictures of a famous British beauty spot.

Mr Farley was snapping away at Berry Head in Brixham, Devon, when he captured the unusual image of sunny Torbay.

But it wasn't until he got home and glanced through the images on his computer that he noticed a mysterious round object in the background.

John Farley captured this strange object while taking photographs in Devon

'I don't know what it is,' said the retired bus driver from Kingskerswell near Newton Abbot.

The strange object has left even photographic experts scratching their heads as to what it could possibly be.

'The picture was taken at a thousandth of a second at f4 which would normally make any moving object pin-sharp,' one expert said.

'The fact that John's object is blurred is a bit baffling. I'm afraid we can't identify what's there except to say it's moving pretty damn quickly.'

The sighting was just one of a series of mysterious lights flitted across the night sky on Saturday  - which saw a record number of such sightings in the UK.

A Devon couple also claim to have witnessed some 'unusual activity' near their home in Barnsey Gardens, Ashburton.

Wayne and Jo Taylor were treated to a spectacular light show as they sat outside their home on Saturday night.

Mr, 40, said: 'I just couldn't believe it. I've never seen anything like it in my life before.'

He counted about a dozen, slow-moving circular lights in formation heading towards Dartmoor at 10.20pm.

'The whole of Ashburton is now talking about it. I have absolutely no rational explanation for what I saw. The lights moved at one stage at a 90 degree angle.

'They were not these lanterns that people keep reporting. There was no way of telling how far or close they were. It's very difficult to explain them. They were quite random.'

At the same time other star-gazers across the country were being similarly gob-smacked by the apparitions with 200 seen at various points between the South West and Yorkshire.

A spokesman for UFO Investigations UK confirmed it received more than 200 reported sightings.

He called for a Government inquiry to explain the deluge of reports from Sussex and Bedfordshire and from Devon to Lancashire and beyond.

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