A MYSTERIOUS ball of light that zipped across St Helens skies on Monday night has been hailed as a possible UFO sighting.

A family from Haydock say they watched in utter amazement as the flashing light seared through the heavens and then vanished shortly after 10.15pm.

Mum, Nicola Macmillan, 32, says she called the police after being stunned by the Unidentified Flying Object - and was told by an officer that similar sightings had been reported in Huyton and Wirral.

Nicola said: "We were stood at the front of our house and could see what was like a big ball of fire in the sky.

"It came across our house and then moved left towards the Huntsman pub - then moved again and appeared to go into the clouds and all we could see was a big black circle - before it moved again."

Nicola and her family, husband Will, 11-year-old son Ryan and sister-in-law Charlotte, watched the spooky light in the sky for about seven minutes.

She added: "No aircraft could move like that - it was very strange and when I phoned the police the woman on the line said she had other reports including one in Huyton where it had knocked a lot of lights out.

"My sister-in-law was joking that she hoped it was not going to beam us up...but honestly I've never seen anything like it in my life."

DID anyone else see it? Email your pictures or videos to webeditor@guardiangrp.co.uk or post photos to the usual Star address.