Happy Mondays Star Shaun Ryder Recounts Teenage Ufo Sighting

Happy Mondays star Shaun Ryder has opened up about a Ufo encounter he experienced when he was 15, insisting he's still convinced he wasn't seeing things.

The Step On singer, who was a big part of Britain's 'Madchester' rave scene in the early 1990s, is an alien enthusiast and he'll front a new Tv show about Ufo sightings around the world.

Ryder insists he's the perfect person to host the series - because he knows exactly what it's like to come face to face with alien spaceships.

He has previously told how he encountered _Ufo_s at least twice in his teens, and he has now opened up about one of the sightings, telling Britain's The Sun newspaper, "I was 15 years old and I was on my first job. I'd left school and I had a job as a messenger boy at the post office. It was about 6.30 in the morning - still dark but just coming light. I was coming to the bus stop and I saw this light in the sky.

"It looked like a ball of light that was just zooming about. It sort of hovered there, then it zoomed off. I was a pretty straight kid when I was 15 - there was no drink or drugs. So that's what really set me off thinking, knowing that there's definitely something out there."

He had a similar experience months later when he saw "hundreds of lights going across the sky", while waiting for a bus in Salford, England.