ERNIE SEARS always warns people: "What I am going to tell you is the truth. You don't have to believe it but it's easier to tell the truth than to lie".

The 83-year-old is adamant that he has been abducted eight times and that he has a scar to prove it.

The oldest member of Southampton UFO Group, he claims that he was first snatched in January 1978 from his garden in Portswood.

"A huge slow-moving dark object moved over the streets of Southampton," he said. "It hovered and stopped over my garden and a wave came out and struck me.

"It took me up in our universe going past the planets - Mars, Saturn and Jupiter, all of them - and then I was back in my garden. It probably took seconds but you don't look at your watch in those situations."

Mr Sears who lives at Netley, says he has been laid out on a table by aliens during numerous abductions.

"They extract semen from people and use it to create humanoids," he said.

"We theorise that this is because they know something is going to happen to the Earth and they will repopulate it with humanoids, which are part human, part alien."

He believes some humanoids have already been sent to live on our planet.

The pensioner claims that doctors have been unable to explain a scar on his left wrist and that he has also been left with puncture marks on his left knee where aliens inserted a syringe.

Describing the aliens, he said: "They are a greyish colour in skin and they don't wear clothes. They have very skinny arms and legs and have huge black eyes.

"They don't talk, they think. They have no mouth, just a thin slip of skin and hardly any nose. They don't ingest food like we do.

"They are so advanced that they can change time and travel millions of miles at the click of a finger."