AN Ipswich teenager had a close encounter of the mysterious kind in Cardinal Park when she saw what she believed was a UFO.

AN Ipswich teenager had a close encounter of the mysterious kind in Cardinal Park when she saw what she believed was a UFO.

Charlotte Bevan, 18, Foxhall Road was picking her older sister up from Cineworld on Sunday night when she spotted a bright orange light hovering above her.

Miss Bevan's bizarre sighting is just one of hundreds reported across the country in the last few weeks.

Normally sceptical about the unexplained, she couldn't believe what she was seeing.

She said: “I looked up and saw a bright orange blob in the sky. It was moving from left to right and not making any sound. Then it drifted out of my sight behind the cinema.”

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