Ok, about three or four months ago, I lay awake in my bed pondering the essential questions of life (such as "Why do I always run out of cider when I'm on my own?") and I suddenly noticed a flash of light in the night sky.

I looked out of the window and saw what appeared to be a perfect circle of fire heading over my house. I raced downstairs and out into the street at the front.

I looked up as the mysterious object hurtled over me, it was a solid circular shape, with flames spiralling all around it. The object sped into the distance, and then suddenly changed direction and shot into the sky...

The whole event was made weirder by the fact that my mate was around two miles away from me at the time, making his way home from work, and he saw it too! At present we seem to be the only two people to have seen this object (UFO, for want of a better word.)

I've been trying to think of what it could have been. If a race of vastly intelligent super-beings did wish to contact humanity, then it's somewhat unlikely their chosen route would be through Herefordshire County Council, although that would explain why we STILL don't have a bypass...

And I was NOT drunk at the time either, so let's nip that theory in the bud right now.