Salford resident Duncan Kennedy was enjoying a quite Sunday afternoon at home in when he spotted what he thought might be a UFO.

Mr Kennedy rushed out on to the balcony of his flat near Blackfriars Road to video the strange object with his mobile phone as it appeared to hover around in the sky over HMP Manchester.

Duncan, 37 said:"I was just sat at home watching my Only Fools & Horses box set when something appeared on the horizon out the corner of my eye."

The UFO does not appear to be a helicopter or an aeroplane, and certainly doesn't appear to be some crime-fighting super hero dropping off another villain at Manchester's city centre prison.

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Top ten UFO sightings in Manchester

The skies over Greater Manchester are no stranger to the odd unexplained sighting and one of Salford's most famous sons has now started a second career as a 'Ufologist'.

Happy Monday's frontman Shaun Ryder claims to have had two 'close encounters' claiming he once saw ‘hundreds of lights across the sky’when he was teenager in Salford.

In his book about UFO sightings Shaun writes: “I was standing at a bus stop at th’Height at about 9pm at night. I looked up and just saw hundreds of lights across the sky, hundreds of them. My first thought was, ‘are we being invaded?’ It was amazing. I’d never seen anything like it in my life."

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Whether or not this video actually shows a visitor from another planet we will never know, but it seems many strange things have been spotted in the skies over Salford and Manchester.

Have you ever seen a UFO? Perhaps you too have manged to get a video of something strange in the sky. Tell us your story or share your photos and videos by emailing them to us at website@men-news.co.uk

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