Robbie buys up in UFO hotspot

PARANORMAL nut Robbie Williams has bought a $16 million country estate said to be criss-crossed by mystical energy routes believed to attract flying saucers.

His 71-acre mansion is also in the centre of crop circle country - and just yards from an HQ for thousands of people who investigate the field indentations every summer.

Britain's The Sun newspaper reports the singer, who is obsessed with UFOs, is also within easy reach of a flying saucer study group called SUFOR near his new home in the tiny village of Compton Bassett, Wiltshire.

Locals reported 45 UFO sightings last year - more than most other counties in Britain.

The singer has moved back to Britain after five years in Los Angeles. He claims to have seen UFOs three times and called his 2006 tour Close Encounters.