We've seen some crazy criminal excuses here at Newslite Towers - like the burglar who told cops he was a trainee locksmith - and here's another great one.

A man in Middlesbrough reportedly told police that aliens had instructed him to go into his mother’s home and steal food to give to the homeless.

A hearing at Teesside Crown Court also heard that John Kirby had smashed into his uncle’s home before stealing aftershave and toiletries … also at the behest of aliens.

29-year-old Kirby - who had previous convictions for burglary - had left fingerprints at the scenes of the two burglaries and representing himself in court entered guilty pleas.

The judge jailed Kirby for 12 months, of which he will serve half. There's no new if the instructing aliens will face any charges.

Footage of a UFO darting across the sky over Seoul in South Korea has divided the internet with some insisting it heralds the arrival of little green men, and others repeatedly shouting "FAKE" at their computers.

The video was apparently recorded by a passenger flying over the city and zooms in and out to get a better view of the spherical object.

Moving at a similar pace to the plane, the object eventually shoots out of shot.

But online critics suggest all is not as it seems and that the UFO has simply been added onto the original footage.

A 'sweet-toothed ghost' has been caught on camera flinging a packet of sweets from a supermarket shelf after closing hours.

CCTV footage shows the moment the item was hurled the IGA store in Adelaide -- despite there being no-one around.

Bosses say they now believe the store is haunted by a sweet-toothed ghost, adding that they think it's pretty cool.

The video has recently become a hit on YouTube… where obviously no-one is calling it a fake.

Staff at a pub in Birmingham say they are being haunted by the ghost of a former landlord who knocks over glasses and throws beer mats at customers.

Henry Skinner -- who was murdered 116 years ago -- is claimed to haunt the Birmingham city-centre boozer The Trocadero.

Skinner served in the military before running the pub and was well-known in the city and ran a popular boxing academy.

But nowadays he's said to spend his time knocking over glasses, throwing beer mats, moving things around the pub at night and making the money in fruit machines rattle.

This video of a motorist driving along a snowy road in Scotland has gone viral online -- after it was claimed to contain footage of a flying saucer.

The footage is said to have been shot from a camera in Scottish Mountain Rescue vehicle in heavy fog with visibility reduced.

But after a car can be seen driving in the opposite direction, a pair of bright dots appear in the sky.

The lights then zoom across the sky before disappearing into the fog, prompting some  viewers to claim it shows aliens… others insist it's just lens flare.

The US government has officially responded to calls for them to "acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence here on Earth" -- by saying there isn't one.

Conspiracy theorists had hoped the petitions on the White House website would force officials to declare they'd already made contact with little green men.

But the response states the American government has no proof to support the existence of aliens, UFO landings, abductions, or aliens living among us.

"The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race," it reads.

It goes on to say: "There is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye."  But they would say that wouldn't they.

When this man saw a giant object hovering in the night sky he decided to best thing to do was call 999 -- then he realised it was the moon.

Police in Hertfordshire have released embarrassing audio from a recent 999 call from a man who wanted to report seeing a UFO.

He started off by saying the mysterious object -- which wasn't making recognisable engine noises -- was flying above his house with lights blazing and that is was getting closer.

But a couple of minutes later he called again, this time to admit that he'd made a mistake and had been looking at the moon. Oops.

A video of a UFO flying over the M11 in broad daylight - near to where BBC journalist Mike Sewell says he saw one - has become an online hit.

Described by UFO expert Nick Pope as: "One of the most bizarre pieces of UFO footage I've seen in a long time," the video was shot near Stansted Airport in Essex.

The 34-second clip shows a series of bright lights zipping around the cloud-filled sky above the motorway at high speed before vanishing.

All the time the passengers in the car can be heard screaming as thy drive along… that's if you ignore the fact it sound's like it's beed dubbed afterwards and the UFOs look like they were added with a bit computer trickery.

The latest batch of UFO files have been released by the Ministry of Defence  - including a sighting in East Dulwich which led to a visit from 'Mork and Mindy'.

It was claimed that after seeing a 'worm-shaped' UFOs 'wriggling around in the sky' over East Dulwich in London in 2003 a woman was visited by an odd duo who came to her door.

The unnamed woman reported to police that the pair - identifying themselves as Mork and Mindy - had been dressed in space suits and dark glasses.

Other reports released today include UFOs spotted by the pilot and passengers of an aircraft over the Channel Islands in 2007 and F-16s scrambled to intercept UFOs over Belgium in 1990.

There are also reports of mysterious lights seen moving over the Pyramid Stage at the 2003 Glastonbury Festival… though even we could probably explain that one.

A BBC sports reporter says he saw a disc shaped UFO circling above a field as he traveled to work early in the morning.

Mike Sewell was driving to Stansted Airport when he claims he saw the disc-shaped craft zipping over the Hertfordshire countryside at 4.15am.

Speaking on Radio Five Live, he said he was "gobsmacked" when he saw the odd flashing lights just a few hundred yards from the road.

"I saw this big bright light in the sky and what looked like an aircraft, descending towards the road and as it got closer it banked to the left," he said.

"As it banked to the left it went across the countryside, I could see underneath and it wasn't an aeroplane and it wasn't a helicopter. And it was much bigger than a helicopter. It was kind of… I dread saying this… disc-shaped.