'flying saucer' Baffles residents as it is towed through Cowley County, Kansas before they realise it is a.......Drone

It is usually a topic about which the authorities remain tight-lipped.

So transporting a flying saucer on the back of a truck in broad daylight was more than a little out of character.

Or so thought the residents of Cowley County, Kansas when a 32-ft suspicious object was transported through their town.

Tongues immediately began wagging, with onlookers certain the object, barely disguised by a grey tarp, was a UFO.

The claims were only exacerbated when the local sheriff said he had been asked not to divulge anything about the mysterious craft.

But much to their disappointment, a spokesperson for aerospace company Northrop Grumman revealed the suspected UFO was actually an X-47B, an unmanned combat drone the navy hopes to land on aircraft carriers.

But onlookers weren’t convinced. Read More