A man captured footage of "a UFO" hovering over his neighbour's house. "

John Nicholls, 45, was in bed watching TV with his wife, Maureen, 50, at 9pm on November 17 when he looked out the window and noticed an object in the sky.

John dismissed it as a meteor or a planet at first but says it started making "odd shapes and changing colours" - going from yellow to purple and white."

John got out of bed and filmed the unidentified object - that was "absolutely huge" - for a few minutes before he says it disappeared."

He said he didn't believe in aliens but after seeing the "UFO" they are both "convinced" they exist."

John, a health and safety inspector, from Alresford, Colchester, Essex, said: "When I first saw it I thought it was a planet or something."

"I kept watching and it started making odd shapes and changing colours - it was all very odd."

"We have seen meteor showers before from our window and it was nothing like that."

"From our bedroom we can see the night sky and I have never seen anything like that."

"I couldn't believe what I was seeing."

"I'm not a big UFO man but I have been keeping up with the UFO hearings in America as it is interesting."

"Only few days ago, I showed my partner the video of project blue book alien interview as a bit of fun and we see this couple days later - it's bloody mental."