A WEMBDON man's claims he snapped a UFO over the town were quashed by an expert in the field.

In February 2009, the Mercury printed a picture taken by Darren Woodland in his garden on Christmas Day 2008, which he said showed an unidentified flying object.

But Chris Williams, from the Swindon UFO Research group, dismissed the claim.

"It could be some kind of processing anomaly or internal area," he said.