The aircraft, which bears a striking resemblance to the alien spacecraft from the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, was said to have been snapped over Rossie Ochil, Perthshire.
John Macdonald, 65, from Dysart, Fife, is convinced he saw a spaceship above him and said it was only around 50 to 70 yards away from him. He said: 'It's definitely a space craft of some sort. I don't know whether I frightened it or not with the flash of the camera, because in the beat of a heart it was gone.'
It happened at around 11pm last Sunday, when he was driving home after visiting a friend. He described how the noise drowned out the sound of his jeep. 'My jeep is quite noisy, but this sounded like a thousand hoovers....read more>>>...