Dyer's Close Encounter On Tv Show

The Dead Man Running star mixed with alien-spotters when he investigated extra-terrestrials for his upcoming U.K. programme I Believe - but got a little too close to the subject matter for comfort.

He says, "I saw one, yeah. People think I'm a complete lunatic now but I did see something a bit mad. I went to America, to a hippie commune and had to get a bit spiritual... I went to meet some people who have been abducted and things like that, and they told me some really mad things. I think you have got to open your mind a little bit.

"I just want to believe that there's things (sic) out there. I did see something. It wasn't a plane, it wasn't a helicopter, it just looked like a massive star going across the sky. But it freaked me right out."