Lemon-headed aliens, laser beams and attempted abductions feature among 800 official reports of UFO sightings released today.
'We want you, come with us,' some oddly-shaped visitors apparently told two young boys in a field in Staffordshire in 1995.
They appeared from a saucer-shaped object that was so hot one of the boys' faces went 'the colour of beetroot', the other lad wrote.
The pair ran to a police station, arriving 'agitated and distressed', said officers, who thought the object was an aircraft. The youngsters gave their account, including an image of the spacecraft.
At the Glastonbury festival in 1994, two revellers 'standing soberly' in a field saw a UFO 'flashing in a way that was communicating to us'.
The 'awestruck' pair saw the saucer glide effortlessly towards them. 'It went from red and orange to yellow and green. This had an amazing impact on me because I was wearing yellow and green,' said one, a metaphysics student.
In another case in 1996, a young man on a night out reported a UFO following him with a light beam. The man – 'a sensible sort of lad ', according to police – then heard a noise 'like cats wailing' before light beams blasted down.
He later found four smouldering railway sleepers at the spot, one with a 10cm (3in) hole burned through it.
'It does look rather odd,' a police officer in Cheshire reported.
Reports from 1981 to 1996 were released in a joint project by the MoD and The National Archives. Sightings rose five-fold in 1996, when the film Independence Day was released.
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