Robbie Williams has claimed he’s had close encounters of the third kind - he’s seen a trio of UFOs flying in the sky.

The singer “swears” he’s seen flying saucers on three different occasions, once when he was a kid, then again when he was at a hotel in Los Angeles.

He said in a radio interview this morning, “I was lying on my sun lounger outside at night. Above me was a square thing that passed over my head silently and shot off.”

The third occasion happened when “this big ball of gold light turned up” as he stood on a balcony at his home after writing a song about aliens.

Rather perceptibly, Robbie - who says he also believes in ghosts and, er, Scientology - explained, “People will think I’m mental, which I am.”