Plenty of things about modern-day football are alien to fans – but that was even truer in 1999 when a UFO was reported over Stamford Bridge!
The revelation about the incident at a game between Chelsea and Manchester United came as authorities in Britain released previously secret files containing 6,000 pages full of UFO and alien sightings.
Did aliens really hover over Stamford Bridge?
A policeman reported suddenly seeing four bright lights move silently over the pitch before they disappeared in a diamond-shaped formation during the game.
He later said that he had never seen anything like it. A colleague who was also there confirmed the observation.
And the sighting was far from the only one in the UK over the past few years.
The British Ministry of Defence (MOD) has made dossiers open to the public for the fifth time, in which extraterrestrial sightings are reported.
Many documents even contain sketches of UFOs and aliens.
A further 25 files have now been released and have been published on the National Archives website. The files contain around 6,000 pages, which were filed between 1995 and 2000.
The most bizarre cases:
• In July 1994 an electrician from Annandale saw a UFO in the shape of a Toblerone chocolate bar hover close to the ground. The man got in his car and drove to where he thought it had landed.
His car conked out when he arrived there and his torch didn’t work any more. There was no trace of the UFO. He nevertheless reported the case to the Ministry of Defence’s UFO department.
• On August 18, 1997 four fishermen on a trawler in the North Sea saw a flat, shiny and round object hovering above the Scottish town Fraserburgh. They could even follow it for a few seconds on their radar before it disappeared.
• Bonnybridge, which is about 35 km West of Edinburgh, is particularly known for extra-terrestrial sightings.
Local councillor William Buchanan even wrote to former Prime Minister Tony Blair because there had been alleged 600 UFO sightings in his district. He asked for an official investigation.
He wrote: “UFO over 3,000 people have witnessed. I have tried to get an answer for the people and have been ridiculed for it [sic]".
• A man from Ebbw Vale in Wales reported to the police that his car suddenly was caught in a mysterious “light tunnel” on January 27, 1997. Since then he suffered from a strange 'skin change'.
The police report confirmed this and recommended that the man should visit the doctor.
• During a flight from London to Hong Kong in 1983, an eyewitness suddenly saw an unrecognisable but very bright object next to his plane.
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