(Original headline: IS CIRCLE OF LIGHT IN NIGHT SKY A UFO? )
Electrician Neil Krohn didn't believe all the mumbo jumbo about UFOs - until he saw a spectacular apparition from his bathroom window in Paignton.
Bleary-eyed Neil, 58, was shocked to see a baffling circle of lights which danced across the night sky to the accompaniment of a curious humming noise. His 3am entertainment, also watched by his equally amazed wife Jeannette, lasted nearly an hour before the show faded away in the eastern sky at the break of day.
"I've never been taken in by all this UFO stuff you see in the news. I've always been sceptical until now. I really thought I was seeing things.
"I'm glad my wife saw it too because she would never have believed me. It was a privilege to see what we saw," said Neil, who lives in Wills Avenue and is recovering from major back surgery.
He's at a loss to explain what he witnessed. He was so captivated by the light show that he failed to record it on his camcorder.
"I reckoned it would disappear as soon as I got the camcorder. And when I checked it later I realised I wouldn't have got anything because the battery was flat," said a miffed Neil.
He said the humming noise, similar to the sound of a spinning top, first alerted him to strange happenings above his home.
"I looked out and couldn't see anything. Then I opened the bathroom window and looked into the garden. There was nothing, and then I looked up and saw these incredible circles of lights. There were about four or five lights in a circle and a similar number of circles," said transfixed Neil.
He then called Jeannette to see if she could see what he saw - and she did.
"The object was moving above a low cloud, so it couldn't be a laser show. It then moved from the Livermead area across to Berry Head and back.
"We just stood there looking up in the sky together like a young couple in love. I just could not believe it was happening. We left it after about an hour as it started to fade with the onset of dawn," said Neil.
He was anxious to know if any other Herald Express readers had experienced the same distraction.
Neil said he had since charged up his camcorder battery and would have it at the ready for any future visitations.
