A TORNADO may have scared off a UFO about to land in Lancashire, a dad who snapped the bizarre incident said last night.

Pat Regan was nearly blown over as he photographed the twister during a fishing trip.

But it wasn’t until he got home and enlarged the image on his PC that he spotted the UFO.

Mythology writer Pat, 51, who was with his daughter Jasmine, seven, said: “I noticed this weird speck. I blew it up and there it was — a UFO hovering right beside the twister.

“It’s a perfect disc shape and greenish in colour. If it was a little green man he probably took one look at the weather and thought twice about landing!”

Last night an intrigued Met Office spokesman asked for a copy of Pat’s picture, taken on Sunday in Rufford. He added: “Tornados occur about 30 times a year in the UK, but it’s the first time I’ve heard of a UFO spotted close to one.”

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