The 38-year-old had been driving along the A3 in England when the sighting occurred.
Viruses trapped in permafrost for thousands of years could potentially thaw out and infect modern humans.
Here we take a look back at our most popular general mystery stories from the last twelve months.
Scientists have developed a new modeling tool to help simulate the effects of a nuclear device on a large asteroid.
Interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals could account for why some of us are predisposed to be early birds.
These huge prehistoric carnivores were long thought to be close cousins of the modern day gray wolf.
UFOs are not an exclusively modern phenomenon - people have been seeing objects in the sky for thousands of years.
Scientist Andrew Glikson outlines the case for a 520km-wide crater situated deep beneath modern-day Australia.
Whether or not some of the ancestors of modern humans were as brainy as believed remains a matter of contention.
The stone will play an important role in the King's coronation, but its recent history has been steeped in controversy.
Well known Colombian model Valentina Rueda Velez was the passenger who recorded the footage at the time.
The original inhabitants of Australia have much to teach modern scientists about the nature of this intriguing phenomenon.
Space policy expert Wendy Whitman Cobb takes a look at the modern UFO phenomenon and what we mean by 'UFO'.
Palmer Luckey - the man who kick-started the modern VR scene - has built a headset with a rather unique and deadly twist.
The modern version of animism has become an increasingly popular movement attracting large numbers of followers.
One of the pioneers of the modern field of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has sadly passed away.
The eruption, which occurred in January, was larger than any other eruption or atomic bomb detonation in the last 100 years.
Researcher Charles Paxton takes a look back over the history of the world's most famous lake monster.
Prof Roger Jones - who works at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern - looks at the future of physics discoveries.
The former MoD UFO investigator has suggested that alien monitoring devices could be disguised as common animals.