UFO 'dive-bombs' elderly couple on highway Down Under!

Melbourne, June 3 : Looks like aliens from outer space are no longer restricted to the movies and cartoons. An elderly couple has claimed that they had a close encounter with an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) while traveling along a highway in Australia.

Lawrie Fuchs, 70, and his wife Gwen, 69, were returning to their home town of Elliott following a trip to Queensland on May 30 when they say the UFO swooped them as they drove along the Barkly Highway.

Estimated to be about six metres wide, they said that the object passed the vehicle with such speed that its slipstream forced their Mazda sedan into the middle of the road.

They were travelling in a westerly direction and were about 55km east of the Threeways roadhouse when the incident occurred.

"It was about 4pm when suddenly we saw a dark, silvery flash and heard a loud sound as it passed,'' News.com.au quoted Mr Fuchs, as saying.

"It was travelling at a terrific speed, very bloody fast, and there was no warning at all.

"I'm sure it dive-bombed us but I can't imagine why. I do a lot of bush work and over the years I've seen a number of strange, unexplained things,'' he said.

Mrs Fuchs said she saw a little flash just below the sun visor then heard a loud whoosh as it passed over.

"I actually thought it hit the car, but there were no marks,'' she said.

ANI