* The car disappeared with an eight-week-old pit bull terrier still inside
* He and two friends were going to camp near Cardiff but aliens took their tent
A man who claims his tent, car and dog were snatched by aliens on a camping trip in Cardiff has spoken out about his harrowing experience.
Keith Robins, 37, said that he looked on 'gobsmacked' as a fleet of 12 to 15 spacecrafts homed into view one evening in 1992 while on a camping trip with friends Christopher French and Sylvan Salway.
Keith and his friends had asked permission from their parents to go on the trip, but the group were left disappointed when before they even had a chance to pitch their tent, the alien vessels made off with the Datsun Cherry and its contents.
Believer: Keith Robins says he is willing to take a lie detector test over his claims that aliens stole his car
Mr Robins from Rumney, Cardiff explained that they had parked up the car in Whitchurch and went looking for somewhere to pitch their tent.
It was then that the locked car disappeared without the engine starting - with Keith's tent and Chris' eight-week-old pit bull Staffordshire terrier still inside.
He said: 'It all happened so fast in about three to five minutes. I walked back to the car and it had just vanished off the face of the earth'
It was then that all three noticed a bright glow above the trees for just under a minute.
Determined: Keith has written to the Ministry of Defence about the abduction of his Datsun Cherry by aliens back in 1992'These lights came from behind these massive trees. About 12 to 15 of them. I thought they were pink flamingos. My other mates thought they were fire flies,' he said.
'They then just speeded up and were gone in 30 seconds. I was baffled - so confused.'
The next day, Keith and his friends reported the incident to the police, leaving out the mysterious floating objects, but a search for the Datsun Cherry and its contents proved futile.
Keen to find out what he saw, Keith sent a handwritten letter and diagram showing the alien space crafts to the Ministry of Defence in October 1992.
Baffled: Keith said when he first saw the spacecraft he thought they were 'pink flamingos'
To this day he still says: 'I don't 100 per cent know what happened but I'm going to believe it for the rest of my life. I'm willing to have a lie detector test,' he said.
Mr Robins' story was just one of many extraterrestrial tales revealed to the public when the Ministry of Defence released its final cache of UFO documents.
The 25 files contained 4,400 pages of reports received between 2007 and 2009 with details of alien abductions, air chases between police and UFOs and spaceship wreckages.
Close encounters: The Ministry of Defence has 4,400 pages of reports on UFO sightings in its collections
The MoD's UFO desk, which handled these reports, saw the number of UFO sightings rocket, with 600 reported in 2009 alone.
Buckling under the weight of these submissions, the project was recently shut down, but Nick Pope, who worked for the UFO project from 1991 to 1994 said believers should not be laughed off too quickly.
'The believers only have to be proved right once,' he said.
