After a photograph appeared in the local press last week, apparently showing a flying saucer hovering over houses at Prehen, the President of the UFO Society of Ireland, Betty Meyler has told the Sentinel, she is not surprised by it's appearance.
Speaking about the picture captured by a Galliagh man on his mobile phone, Betty Meyler dismissed all suggestions the image is faked.
"It's not computer generated. If it was the black dots on the car window would have been wiped out as well.
"My first reaction to this picture was wow! This is a very usual sort of craft; they are usually this shape, cigar shaped or triangular."
She said the proximity of the supposed space craft to the River Foyle at Prehen is also a fairly normal occurrence.
"Craft are normally attracted to the energy created by megalithic sites or rivers and loughs.
"In Leitrim and Roscommon viewings at lakes are common.
"The pattern of evidence suggests water provides portals for craft to come in and go out of this planet.
"Therefore it is possible that the Foyle is also a portal."
In Limavady last February three round objects travelling in triangular formation were spotted by two witnesses on a clear, frosty evening, according to the website ufoinfo.com.
Betty Meyler has recently returned from one of the worlds leading UFO conventions in Las Vegas and stated that there was nothing as strong as the image captured at Prehen at the American event.
The sighting at Prehen is merely more confirmation that Ireland is a regular haunt for alien craft, she said.
"I'd be a liar if I said I knew exactly where this craft travelled from.
"But I have to say it is very low and very close to the houses," she said.
Betty's most famous rendezvous with alien life forms happened in the early hours of November 8, 1999 when she saw seven cigar shaped craft hurtling across the sky in her native Boyle, County Roscommon.
Betty then got a psychic member of the UFO society to contact the aliens and they replied with the following message:
"Tell Betty the UFO's she saw were there to assist the passage of time in order to ensure the correct sequence of events for the Millennium."
Betty Meyler is convinced this intervention averted the much mooted computer and communications disasters, such as the Y2K virus, talked about in the run down to the year 2000.