Sharon Rowlands

She says she filmed the object while it hovered in the sky about two miles away. "It resembled a giant disc with a bite taken out of the bottom," she told reporters.

"As it hovered over the woods, it seemed to expand and then get smaller again.

"We could see it pulsing as if it started up and then it just went it came really close at one stage and I thought it was going to land in the field.

"You can hear me on the video say "Wow!" Hovering in sky

The video shows what appears to be a large craft that emits red, yellow, orange and blue lights and has a dark circle in its centre. It hovers in the sky before moving to the right and emitting pulses of light from its left-hand side.

It then flips over, showing two deep scarlet lights, and disappears in a red flash.

So certain was Ms Rowlands of the film's value, that she had locked it in a Nottingham bank vault before sending it to America. UFO capital

Ms Rowlands' is just one of many alleged sightings of strange objects in the sky over Bonsall in the last few months. One woman reported seeing a "ball of fire" in the skies, another "two big, bright lights".

A man out walking his dog witnessed a "pink glow, vertically shaped like a shoe box".