It's 26 years since two friends witnessed a “bus sized” object in the sky during a camping trip in the summer of 1997.

Now the pair, who are among a select few to go public in Ireland on a UFO sighting, are set to revisit the location where they witnessed the unexplained phenomenon.

Mark Monaghan, 47, and Barry Brown, 46, were both 21 when they spotted the flying object near Lough Key in Co Roscommon.

The trip took a turn when they saw what Mark described as a “bus sized” metallic, cylinder shaped craft around 500 metres in the sky just ahead of them.

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