“A couple had a cloud encounter of an unusual kind when they spotted what looked like a large flying saucer hovering over Britain,” reports Mark Reynolds for Express.co.uk.
“Brian Wilton and his wife Isobel snapped the moment as the setting sun threw an eerie light into the massive cloud,” reports Reynolds.
“The “spaceship” appeared above Crieff in Perthshire at the weekend. Mr Wilton did some research and believes it to be altocumulus lenticularis,” reports Reynolds.
“These are one or more individual almond-shaped or lens-shaped masses of cloud that appear dense, with pronounced shading,” reports Reynolds.
Mr Wilton said: “The formations are usually on the sheltered lee side of mountains. We couldn’t believe it. It was like the scene in the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind when the big spaceship comes down.”






