THERE are many reports of UFO sightings, particularly from pilots and services personnel, yet some people still laugh at the topic.

A relative from Manchester told me that he has seen strange white lights in the sky while walking in the Lancashire countryside, and that some of the manoeuvres that they performed could not of been achieved by conventional aircraft – either commercial or military.

With so many photos and videos of UFOs, and also the story about a Scottish forester getting chased by two metallic spheres dropped from a spacecraft in a forest in West Lothian in 1979, isn’t it about time we started to take these matters more seriously, and offer the people with the evidence a hug and a chat instead of an outburst of insane laughter?

Christopher Wardell, Darlington