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© thesun.co.ukET bah gum ... the craft over town of Rotherham

A UFO hovers over rooftops - leaving locals believing aliens travelled across the universe to check out their lives in Rotherham.

Baffled residents helplessly shouted at the triangular craft as it crept above the South Yorkshire town.

Eerily it looks just like an object spotted over Belgium in 1990 - which so spooked authorities that F-16 fighter jets were scrambled to intercept it.

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Nayab Ahmed, 19 - whose pal Anny Cummings, 18, took the snap - said: "It moved really slowly but occasionally it'd shudder. It was completely silent."

Another witness said: "I don't believe in aliens, but what else could it be?"

Nick Pope, ex-head of the Ministry of Defence's UFO unit, said: "Some might suspect secret prototype aircraft and drones, but we test such craft in restricted military areas, not built-up places."