UFO hunter Steven Barone, who regularly monitors the Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, uploaded the footage to YouTube to make the extraordinary claims. He claims the footage shows alien UFOs above the restricted air base at night. Mr Barone says it was only obtained because he used specialist night vision recording equipment. In a promotional blurb for the video, he wrote: “I shot this video from my backyard in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada, on the night of November 15, 2016.

YouTube The strange lights over Nellis Air Base in a still from the video.

YouTube The UFOs were static and then moved around in the video.

“I am not enhancing it in any way so this is exactly as it was as it came from the night vision camera.” He claims to regularly see and record UFOs over the Las Vegas Valley, which he believes come from the test and training range of the air base and nearby top-secret Area 51 in Nevada. Scott C Waring, editor of ufosightingsdaily.com, said: “These objects are flying over a USAF base in that area so no one can travel over there to take a look. It is all fenced in high security area.” He went one step further and claimed they were testing technology recovery from actual alien visitors to Earth - something that has ben withheld from the public.

De-classified secrets of Area 51 Thu, March 16, 2017 The United States Air Force facility, known as Area 51 is a remote area in Nevada. Current purpose of the base is unknown, however conspiracy theorists and media have speculated purposes from UFO spacecraft research to analysing the brain activity of an alien. Play slideshow UIG via Getty Images 1 of 10 Conspiracy theorists believed remains of UFO spacecrafts were stored at Area 51, and that government scientists were researching the remains to engineer the aliens technology

These objects are flying over a USAF base in that area so no one can travel over there to take a look. It is all fenced in high security area. Scott C Waring