Professor Chandana Jayaratne, Head of the Department of Physics at the University of Colombo and Chairman of the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies, says videos claiming to show UFOs are frequently sent to him and other scientific institutions in Sri Lanka.

He was responding to a video circulating on social media that allegedly shows a UFO following a shrimp farmer near the Voice of America (VOA) transmission centre in Iranawila.

The sighting was reported around 3.00 a.m. last Friday, when a blinking object was seen in the sky near the facility.

According to the farmer, the object moved towards him after he signalled it with a torch, prompting him and a colleague to flee.

The colleague managed to record a video, and the pair later observed two illuminated objects in the sky before dawn.