UFO sightings and theories have suddenly come back into fashion after the MOD released secret files...

Aliens from outer space could have been visiting us for years! The Ministry of Defence has released archives going back to 1978, detailing hundreds of unexplained sightings in British skies. The MOD files show that UFOs come in all shapes and sizes. Any aliens spotted were usually green.

This reminded me of something very strange that happened to me when I was eleven. I was walking home from school with my little sister and our neighbour. It was about four in the afternoon on a sunny day when we saw an amazing object in the sky. The three of us stood on a little railway bridge staring in wonder at the giant shimmering circle of twinkly red lights in the sky. We knew it wasn't the Sun - because that was in another part of the sky. Although it was stationery, the thing seemed to have ocean-like red waves. We must have stood there for at least twenty minutes.

The strangest thing of all about this story was that all three of us forgot all about what had happened until weeks later. We hadn't spoken about it to each other, our parents or anyone else, until one of us (can't remember who) said "Hey, what about that huge sun-like thing the other day!?" We were all baffled as to why we hadn't mentioned it or apparently even thought about until weeks later.

I joked that maybe we had been abducted or brainwashed by beings from another world, but now I'm the editor of Prediction, I'm thinking. "hmm, maybe not such a far-fetched idea?" Even now I think it was one of the most astonishing things I've ever seen.