Dog walking man reveals his alien encounter

Roy Shaw, a retired engineer, claims to have seen a 100ft spaceship as he walked his dog.

Shaw, 58, of Exmouth, Devon, said he first encountered the circular craft, with blue and red lights flashing round it, hovering over a park at 10pm.

Thereafter, it landed next to a bowling green, and a spooky white shape emerged and began gliding towards him and his dog Sydney.

Shaw was so scared that he fled for home with his border collie, twisting his ankle in the run.

"Sydney growled as this shape began to come towards us and we both legged it. I can't believe what I saw," the Sun quoted him, as saying.

According to Shaw, who later sketched the spaceship, the spaceship later shot off at a 45-degree angle. He also claimed that another dog walker had seen it.

"This is a really important sighting," Devon-based UFO expert Nigel Wright said.