UFOs spotted by Navy engineer above the M5 motorway*
By Lucy Cockcroft
Last Updated: 7:29AM BST 02/07/2008
A Royal Navy aircraft engineer claims to have seen a "glowing" UFO hover
over the M5 motorway.
Michael Madden, 25, said he watched in disbelief as the disc-shaped
object floated above his head before it "zoomed off at incredible speed".
He said the unidentified flying object flew for up to three minutes
above junction 21 of the M5, near Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.
Mr Madden was on his way back from Manchester with colleague Michael
Casson, 22, at 9.50pm on Sunday June 29 when he saw the suspected
'extra-terrestrial' craft.
He said: "I work with aircraft and grew up next to Manchester Airport so
I know exactly what a plane looks and sounds like. This was definitely
not a plane.
"It was a circular disc which was glowing bright, hovering hundreds of
metres up.
"Other people must have spotted it. It was unlike anything I've ever
seen in my life. It really did look like the alien aircraft in films. It
had an antenna fixed to the back."
Mr Madden's claim follows a string of recent UFO "sightings".
On June 7 three soldiers said they saw 13 UFOs, which looked like
"rotating cubes", while on night patrol at Tern Hill military barracks
near Market Drayton, Shropshire. One, Corporal Mark Proctor, 38, of the
1st Battalion of the Irish Regiment, recorded the sighting on his mobile
phone and reported it to Army officers.
That sighting came just two hours before helicopter police officers
reported an encounter with a huge craft 80 miles away near Cardiff. They
claimed to have given chase to the "flying saucer-shaped" object after
it almost collided with their aircraft near the Ministry of Defence base
of St Athan.
Then Father-of-two David Osborne, 47, videoed 12 orange objects in the
night sky above Basingstoke, Hampshire, at 10.40pm on June 28.
The alleged UFOs moved across the sky, switching from a D formation, to
a random pattern, to a line then a triangle before disappearing.