A UFO has been reported off Herm. A local man and his wife saw it as they stood at Castle Cornet .

The man, who has asked not to be named, said it moved too quickly to have been a commercial or private aircraft.

And he dismissed the idea that it was a satellite.

'It didn't look like anything I'd ever seen before. It was a strange thing to see - there was no sound and it was moving very fast,' he said.

He had been standing on the Castle Emplacement on Sunday when a light attracted his attention at 6.40pm.

'It was a luminous object which looked like it had flashing lights at different levels, but it could also have been two objects flying in close formation,' he said.

'The whole episode lasted for about five seconds maximum. We saw a conventional aircraft immediately afterwards in a different part of the sky and we both agreed that it was nothing like what we had first seen in terms of appearance or velocity.'

The object flew to the north of Herm and passed the east coast of Guernsey before disappearing from sight.

He said it had been flying level with their position. He said it could not have been a shooting star.