A UFO has been sighted in Stoney Stanton, Coventry.

James Bedwell, 57, and his family, say that they spotted the incredible saucer shaped craft from their home in Alexander Avenue, Earl Shilton.

Mr Bedwell said: "We first caught a glimpse of it at 9.15pm on Wednesday. It was saucer shaped and had blue and red lights beaming down from it. It was quite beautiful. It seemed crystal like and strangely hollow. It was patterned rather like a snowflake. It was about five miles away, towards Stoney Stanton.

"We were all gobsmacked. We thought at first that it was a Police helicopter or a plane, but it moved much to fast. It raced off at terrific speed."

"We glimpsed it through binoculars but couldn't make any more details out." "My son Kevin, 16, went to his room and shouted that it had returned. This time, the light it was beaming was white. It soon turned and went as before. In all, the encounter lasted about half an hour."

Mr Bedwell says that he has always believed that there might be other life forms in the galaxy.

He said: "It is such a huge expanse, it would be more perculiar if there was only us. However, I hadn't bargained for seeing anything like this. I always thought there might be something up there in all that vastness."

PC Stuart Dickson of Hinckley Police confirmed that the police helicopter had not been in the area.

He said: "I was on duty until 10pm and there were no call outs in that region."

However, villagers in nearby Croft said that a police helicopter had been out their way that night and perhaps it was the object sighted.

Mr Bedwell now intends to speak to the UFO Society in Hinckley and ask them to investigate his case.