Robbie Williams has started camping in a bid to spot a UFO.


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The Angels singer – who is fascinated with aliens – has purchased a tent, sleeping bag, cooking gear and survival equipment so he can sleep under the Californian stars in the hope of seeing an extraterrestrial spacecraft.

A source close to the star – who lives in Los Angeles – told The Sun: “Robbie has been taking pals out to the woods for long weekends. He wants to live like a cowboy in a Western. He also has a fascination with UFOs and thinks he has more chance of seeing one away from Los Angeles’ bright lights.”

Earlier this year, it was claimed Robbie was planning to spend lots of cash on an alien observatory after spending all his free time visiting Arizona’s National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson.

A source said: “He is leading a bizarre existence at the moment, vanishing into the desert to look at starts in far-flung galaxies. He is dead set on buying himself an observatory in the desert, which can cost up to UKP2.5 million. He is hooked on all things from outer space.”

Robbie – whose 2006 Close Encounters World Tour was alien-themed – has previously claimed he has been visited by spaceships on three occasions.

Describing one close encounter of the third kind, he said: “I was lying on my sun lounger outside at night. Above me was a square thing that passed over my head slightly and shot off.”