Unexplained sheep attacks in Shropshire have led to claims that aliens are to blame.
Farmers near Shrewsbury have found the animals dead after seemingly being "experimented on", reports The Sun.
UFO hunters are linking the mutilations - including the removal of sheep brains and eyes - to sightings of mysterious orange lights in the sky and claim to have witnessed sheep being zapped by two of the spheres.
Phil Hoyle, 53, who has spent nine years probing the riddle of livestock found killed, said: "For a short while it looked more like a Star Wars battle."
He also interviewed farmers and "all but one had had some type of unusual disappearance of animals or deaths with strange injuries".
The retired steelworker added: "Animals are being clinically and surgically sampled by a highly advanced technology."