Specialist investigators believe Stirlingshire woman Margaret Ross has evidence of a UFO sighting.
Mrs Ross, 63, of Falkirk captured pictures on her video camera from her bedroom window at daybreak on Friday September 27.
The footage shows a pulsating bright object in a cloudless sky to the south of her home. The snowball-like object is obviously far brighter and bigger than any star in the sky.
Its appearance gradually transforms into a half moon shape with four diagonal bars of high intensity brightness.
The object is seen on tape for about 40 minutes before it dissapears from the sky.
Mrs Ross said " After about 15 minutes, it blossomed into a half circle shape with four diagonal stripes. It then began rotating and returned to its original shape. It then seemed to speed away eastwards in the direction of Linlithgow.
" I don't know what this was but it was definitely was not a star, plane, helicopter or balloon.
" It didn't frighten me. I was just fascinated by the changing shape. I was speechless. I just watched in awe."
Two miles away from Mrs Ross's home, the phenomenon was being witnessed by her daughter, Alexis, 42, and her family. She said "I phoned my mother at 7am and asked her if she had seen anything in the sky. She told me she had it on tape. It's absolutely amazing."
Mr Ron Halliday, of Stirling University, chairmn of Scottish Earth Mysteries Research said last night " It is one of the best footages I have ever seen from anywhere in the world. Such a length of footage is very unusual.
" Film of alleged phenomena is very rare and usually lasts for a few fleeting seconds.
" It is extremely rare to have film evidence backed up by multiple witnesses.
"At the moment, there is no obvious explanation as to what Mrs Ross captured on video."
Mr Kenny Higgins, chairman of Scottish Research into Unidentified Flying Objects said " I have never seen anything resembling the shape in the sky that Mrs Ross has captured. It is as good a piece of evidenceof a UFO in Scotland as I've ever seen. "
For years, there have been hundreds of reported sightings of strange phenomena in the skies around Bonnybridge, Denny, and Falkirk
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