A Boeing 747 pilot who spotted several white UFO orbs has claimed they followed him for more than 2,000 miles.

Captain Ruud Van Pangemanan, 52, who has more than 30 years experience, was flying from Saudi Arabia to Nigeria when he spotted the mystery objects hovering next to his plane over Egypt.

The Indonesian pilot claimed the bright orbs would move around in several directions - and in different formations.

The captain said he saw the same lights on more than one occasion on the Saudi-Nigeria route with Nigerian airline MaxAir.

Captain Pangemanan would mostly see between one and three orbs - but he would sometimes spot as many as five orbs at once.

The UFOs would often appear in the same place, he said, usually somewhere in the Sahara desert between Egypt and Libya.

And they could be seen next to his plane until his landing in Nigeria - some 3000 kilometres away.

He told The Sun: "I've seen them since my first flight in June. They followed us from 11pm to the morning all the way until we landed.

"At first we were a little bit terrified thinking 'what is that? why are they coming to us and it's not on our radar?'

"But they kept on dancing, going up and down and flashing, making formations.

Sp much for his commercial flying career.

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