Two RAF Typhoon jets that rocked five counties with their sonic boom were at the centre of a UFO riddle last night.

The scrambled warplanes were seen intercepting a mystery object hovering over Somerset.

Dad-of-three Richard Bird, 38, told how the supersonic jets probed the “strange sock-shaped” entity above his garden in Bath.

He said: “They were having a really good look.”

Fellow local Sean Whyte described the UFO as “white and rocket-shaped”.

Another witness said: “The jets kept circling it. It was very strange.”

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