Ron and Delilah Jeremy were outside their Burn Lane home on Wednesday afternoon last week when they spotted a silver object moving erratically in the sky.

Former prison officer Ron, who captured a picture of the UFO with his mobile phone, said: "We were both quite shocked but we know there have been a few reported round this area.

"We've never seen anything else like it. We uploaded the picture on to the computer and enlarged it but we still couldn't work out what it was.

The 51-year-old father of two continued: "The way it reflected in the sky caught our attention. It was over Burn, just by the level crossing.

"It moved about in various directions and seemed to disappear, then we saw it again. It was moving very fast. It was definitely not a plane."
Selby is fast becoming a UFO hotspot, with a number of sightings recently reported in the Selby Times.

Incidents include two separate sightings of a glowing orange ball moving slowly across the sky in Selby and Burn, and several reports of low-flying, bright glowing craft spotted near Barlby on New Year's Eve.
Selby-based UFO expert Tony Topping said: "I think Selby is going to be placed firmly on the map in terms of the UFO subject in years to come.

"I believe some members of the population in Selby have a unique genetic code that might be of interest to them.

"The district is also home to the three biggest power stations in Europe so they might also be trying to discover how we generate power.

"Whatever the reason, I'm sure it will become apparent in the years ahead."

Filey-based UFO expert Russ Kellett (pictured) was called in after people spotted mysterious flying objects over Barlby in January this year, with one couple claiming their car had been narrowly missed by an unidentified flying object.

Russ, who has been investigating UFOs for 22 years and is the head of investigations for the Flying Saucer Bureau for the North of England, said people had been reporting a lot of strange activity in the early hours of New Year's Day around the district.

He also helped publicise a photo of a strange flying craft, taken over Brayton Barff in 2006 by Selby resident Jody Holden, dubbed the 'Selby Saucer'.