I captured UFO's flying visit on film

2:42pm Tuesday 20th March 2007

A UFO enthusiast has captured what he claims is startling camcorder footage of a possible alien craft hovering in the night sky.

Tony Hicks's video, shot from his back garden in Danescroft Drive, Leigh, has already attracted more than 3,500 hits on YouTube and his own website.

The film appears to show a white flashing object plummeting to earth, then suddenly coming to a halt, before disappearing.

Tony, 39, says the incident happened on February 28.

He said: "I was standing near the back door and it was a clear night. All of a sudden I saw what looked like a bright star fall from the sky.

"I thought it looked a bit strange, so I stopped what I was doing and managed to film it, then it stopped in mid air. I carried on filming it for four minutes while it just hovered, then it shot off," he said.

This isn't the first time the father-of-one claims to have seen a UFO.

He captured a mysterious black triangular craft while taking a photo of his son at a Hadleigh fire station open day two years ago.

Tony added: "They are around everywhere, it's just a matter of getting the perfect piece of evidence to prove it. When you play the film and pause it the object changes shape and colour, it does seem very genuine. It gave me the shakes, I thought it was going to crash.

"I do think they exist, but are very intelligent. This one was trying to fake being a star falling from the sky and when it thought it was being seen it zoomed off."

Mr Hicks is no stranger to unexplained events after a lifetime of seeing ghosts and is part of a team which investigates paranormal activity around the country.

Earlier this month, the Echo reported a spate of possible UFO sightings by seven residents in Basildon and Southend.

However, astronomer Bryn Jones from Queen Mary, University of London said the reports could be due to people mistaking Venus or meteorites for UFOs.

To view the film visit www.ghosthunter extraordinaire.co.uk