A Taiwanese businessman claimed he had caught a doughnut-shaped UFO on camera in south-west China.
Salesman John Chen said he took some picturesque shots of the famous Lake Dian after attending a trade show in Yunnan Province on November 1.
Later on, the 44-year-old and his sister-in-law were shocked to spot a mysterious ring-shaped object in sky when they were looking at one picture at home in Taipei.
Mr Chen, left, sends the pictures to Philip Mantle, a leading UFO expert, for analysis as the flying object has a ridged shape that looks like a doughnut (right).
The object in question has ridged sides and a hole in the middle, and is similar to the shape of a doughnut.
Mr Chen decided to find a UFO expert in a bid to find out what it could be.
Philip Mantle, who is said to be a leading British UFO researcher, told Mr Chen that he could not explain what the flying ‘doughnut’ was. Mr Mantle called the incident an ‘open verdict’.
However, Mr Chen said: ‘It just has to be a UFO. It’s a strange doughnut shape in the sky.
‘The strange thing is I didn’t see it at the time. It was my wife’s sister who spotted them. She said there was something in the pictures and I just thought she was joking.’
Businessman John Chen took a few pictures of Lake Dian in China the day he attended a trade show (left). Only when he returned to Taiwan, he was told that there was a UFO in it (right)
Other pictures of Lake Dian, however, did not show the strange looking object in the sky
Mr Chen then checked with his colleagues. They shared the photos that they had taken on the day, but his colleagues did not capture any strange object in the sky.
Upon receiving photos sent by Mr Chen, British UFO expert Philip Mantle doubted for the legitimacy of the images.
‘What I can say is that the photographer in question here has always cooperated and seems to be genuinely puzzled by the images on his photos.
He did not see the alleged UFO at the time of taking the photos. Instead it was a relative that noticed them when he posted them on social media.’
Mantel concluded that there was no proof that the pictures were a hoax but the object could also be ‘some air born debris that has been caught by the camera;
‘More study needs to be done on these photos before any definite conclusion can be reached, so in the meantime it remains an open verdict,’ he added.