Source: Plymouth Herald

Dozens of people sent in pictures and videos of the lightning which hit Plymouth last night.

Intense flashes of lightning and loud thunder were heard across the county following the extremely humid weather on Tuesday, but one man thinks he may have captured more than just a bolt of lightning.

Messaging Plymouth Live, Ben Williams claimed he may have caught ‘something’ on his camera just before midnight last night.

“I’ve tried to freeze frame it and get a better photo as it’s very quick but there is something to see,” he wrote.

The mobile phone footage which we have slowed down in the video above seems to show some ‘unidentified flying objects’ appear and disappear out of thin air in the area by Ben’s Efford home.

The blobs are relatively indistinguishable but don’t appear to be marks on the camera due to the rate in which they are visible.

Mr Williams is keen to try and find out what could be causing the mysterious shapes.

“I just though it was very odd. I recorded it myself off my phone, I was outside just trying to see some good lightning but got that instead.

“What do you think it could be?”

The shadowy shapes can be seen for a split second during a particularly fierce lightning strike before vanishing as quickly as they arrived.

When the video is slowed down or frozen the larger of the orbs is quite distinguishable on the centre right of the screen.

Ben emphasises that it was “Very quick, and I have no idea what I saw at the point.”

So what could this mystery object be?

A tearaway carrier bag. The shadow of a cloud. A trick of the lightning. Or perhaps, just perhaps, an alien spacecraft.

See the video on Plymouth Herald to have a view of the video and see for yourself if its a UFO or not seen in the clouds.