Student Edmund Hatton was enjoying an early night when he spotted the darting light through the skylight of his Headingley home. The 20-year-old grabbed his phone and filmed for a couple of minutes, the blue-ish light moving left and right and sometimes disappearing.

Mr Hatton first spotted the strange show at about 10.10pm on August 23 and watched it for about six minutes. "As I was watching telly I saw what was the equivalent of a lightbulb hovering around on the flightpath to Leeds Bradford. I thought it could be a light gun, but there was no one shining torches," he said.

"The light was going from left to right, hovering, going faster and stopping then just disappearing for an instant and
then starting again. It's unexplainable. No plane or aviation can go from left to right like that."

There are suggestions the light was being emitted from Leeds Festival just over 10 miles away near Bramham.

Mr Hatton, however, is certain it was not being beamed from the ground.

A spokesman for West Yorkshire Police said they were unaware of any calls from the public about the light above Leeds.