This never-before seen photo of a football-shaped UFO ‘with a three-eyed alien on board’ has convinced one expert it’s REAL

THIS rare photo of a football-shaped UFO has convinced an expert the mysterious spherical object could actually be REAL.

The iconic snap was taken by Russian cadets Alexei Fomin and Alexander Petrov, from the Voronezh High Aviation Engineering School on November 8 1989, in the former Soviet Union city of Voronezh.

The cadets saw the grey-white coloured UFO hovering in the city at around 5pm local time with a pink “halo” around it.

It hovered above them for around six minutes and even appeared to slightly decrease in size, before it vanished, leaving a smoky trail in the sky.

The supposed UFO appeared a few weeks after school children claimed to have seen three aliens emerge out of a large, shining ball.

Vasya Surin, Zhenya Blinov and Yuliya Sholokhova, who were playing in a nearby park, spotted a three-eyed alien around 10ft tall and dressed in silver overalls, come out of a deep red coloured ball, a report from Soviet news agency TASS claimed.