Newly released files by the Ministry of Defence reveal a UFO was spotted in the Sussex sky.

The dossier of drawings and sketches of UFOs include a blue banana-shaped object with dangling human-like arms and legs, seen in London in 1989 and a circle of flashing red lights in the skies of Staffordshire spotted by a 65-year-old housewife in. 1984 In Sussex a resident of Ardingly, described seeing a five-sided object with "two very, very powerful" front lights flying over woods on September 4, 1989.

A detailed description and drawing was given to Gatwick Airport but a note which was later added to the file says it "looks suspiciously like a sighting of an aircraft".