The Indian Air Force has said that its fighter jets have shot down a UFO.

A Sukhoi Su-30 MKI fighter jet was dispatched to deal with a ‘balloon-shaped’ object seen over the northern state of Rajasthan on Tuesday.

A statement from the IAF said the ‘unidentified object’ was ‘intercepted and brought down’.

‘Between 10.30 and 11 am today an unidentified balloon-shaped object was picked up by the Indian Air Force (IAF) radar,’ it said in an official statement.


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‘An IAF fighter was launched, which intercepted the object and brought it down. Materials have been retrieved and further investigation is ongoing.’

Scott C Waring of UFO Sightings Daily told Yahoo it ‘looked like a giant cloud orb’.

‘Sometimes if they are struck by lightning, they can malfunction and fall to the earth,’ he added.