People cast their eyes to 'spectacular' lights in the sky above Merseyside last night as an 'unidentified flying object' appeared to hover in the air.
The bright object seemed to stay still for several minutes before disappearing from view.
Peter Forrest, 49, from Stockbridge Village told the ECHO : "It just stayed still. We saw it and went back in to get the phone.
"But it just stayed still, it was weird. Very very weird."
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A man in Maghull also saw when he was out for an evening walk.
He told the ECHO : "I went for a walk last night around 10 pm, as I looked up into the night sky I saw this bright light.
"I viewed it for a few seconds and it didn't move at all, the night was still with no noise as I thought it might be the police helicopter.
"I took the picture and viewed it on my phone (I had zoomed in to try to get a better look, no more than 10 or 20 seconds max) my gaze returned to the sky and the light had completely disappeared."
People in Wirral also saw the 'strange' lights and took to social media to share what they thought it was.
Another person who saw the lights wrote in a public Facebook group: "I seen this, I was like what the heck is that. I got in and went for a ciggy in the back garden at 10.15pm and seen this."
One witness said they "actually thought it was a UFO".
Another wrote: "Fantastic! It looked great anyway, then just vanished."
The light was visible across the UK last night. Its appearance is linked to the launch of Atlas V rocket, reports HullLive.
HullLive said reports suggest the object was part of the Atlas V rocket re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.
The rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 7.12pm UK time, according to NASA.
It carried Landsat 9, NASA's new satellite built to monitor the Earth’s land surface, into space.
