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Sarah Turnnidge

'I can confirm I'm not mad' - Bristol man claims to have captured pictures of a UFO above his garden

We've all been there - one moment you're enjoying a spot of late sun in your back garden, and the next you're watching an Unidentified Flying Object make its way over the city.

At least, that's what one man - identified only as Eliot - purports to have seen on Thursday evening (April 25), whilst standing in his garden in St George.

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He got in touch with Bristol Live on Friday in order to share the pictures of what appears to be a suspicious green glow floating through the clouds and across the clear blue sky.

"There were three of us in the garden, so I can confirm I'm not mad," Elliot said, regarding his sighting of what he believes to be mysterious visitors from another planet.

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Unfortunately our extraterrestrial correspondent hasn't been available to comment on the likelihood of this being a genuine encounter of the third kind - but here's what Elliot had to say about his unusual sighting.

He said: "We watched an object in the distance moving in strange directions at hight speed, occasionally gleaming with light. It seemed strange, but we didn't make anything more of it.

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"A few minutes later I got my phone out to capture a strange ray of light piercing through the cloud. I wasn’t aware until afterwards that the object had some how made it’s way back around (probably a mile or so from where we first saw it) and then featured in the photos that I took.

"I did not realise I'd documented it until after. It was flying very low, moved silently and in an unusual fashion. It was not a balloon, and was definitely not just light refraction through my lens."

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It's far from the first time Bristol residents have reported coming into contact with something from another galaxy altogether - from an 'unusual saucer shaped object' to 'a disk object which descended above the houses' it seems as though Elliot is not alone.

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