A Labour politician claims he was abducted by extra-terrestrials as a child and that his “real mother” is a 9ft tall alien with eight fingers.

Simon Parkes, a Labour member elected to Whitby town council, recounted his experiences in a video shown on YouTube.

The clip is part of the Anomalous Mind Management, Abductee, Contactee Helpline Project, which encourages people to come forward with their apparently unexplainable experiences.

He speaks of his first encounter which occurred while he in the womb, then tells of a being which appeared by his cot when he was six-months-old and reached out to him with “these two green ‘stick things, like beanpoles’.”

He continued: [link to www.huffingtonpost.co.uk]