My mum was leaving my sister's about a year ago when suddenly a large red orb silently glided by.

She was amazed at this object, which she said looked like an orange without its peel, and asked my 10 year old niece what she thought it was.

"A UFO," was her reply. My mum then came home and told me what she'd seen.

I'm interested in this type of phenomena...but at the same time I didn't believe her.

But to my amazement, I was looking though a UFO magazine about two months later and there were reports of orange balls of light and large cigar shaped craft hovering around just outside of town.

I was so amazed, that I started yelling "My mum's seen a UFO!"

I got some strange looks from people in the same train carriage!

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