Former football player Simon Church has sparked a UFO-hunting frenzy after posting a video of a glowing orb which he encountered while entertaining himself with star-gazing during the coronavirus lockdown.
In the video, a bright white object which appears completely spherical from the ground is seen sailing through the dark sky before abruptly vanishing.
Churchzooms in but it makes the video more grainy and it is hard to see the object clearly. Baffled by the mystery object, the ex-Wales star shared a brief clip of it onto his Twitter account on Tuesday where it has since been watched more than 20,000 times.
He wrote: "Just seen the craziest thing while having a look at Venus tonight. It was way too high to be a drone and then just