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A flaming red UFO was spotted circling the skies over Cambridgeshire before disappearing behind some trees.

It was spotted by a stunned canal boat owner in Stretham, around 8pm on Wednesday, who says he watched its eerie descent for 20 minutes.

Gerry Underwood, 55, believes the flaming object was "very big" too big to have been a shooting star and created a massive "chemtrail".

Gerry who lives on his boat with partner partner Melanie, told CambridgeshireLive they were outside "having a small fire" when the mysterious object flew into view.

He said: “It looked like a very thick chemtrail to start with. It looked like a short, skinny cloud.

“It wasn’t moving quickly at all. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a meteorite, because they are gone in seconds.

(Image: Cambs News/BPM MEDIA)

“We have seen hundreds of shooting stars, but this definitely wasn’t that either.

“This was coming down very slowly and spiralling. It started to glow orange as you can see in the pictures.

“There were flames coming out of the back of it as well. It was really unusual.”

Gerry took several pictures of the burning entity dropping through the sky. A huge plume of smoke can be seen behind it as it descends into the distance.

Gerry said he watched the unidentified object fall through the sky for "between 10 and 20 minutes," as it was coming down slowly.

Eventually, the burning mass vanished behind the trees in the distance.

Gerry said he was looking towards Huntingdon as he watched it descend, but stressed the object might have landed "well beyond that."

He said: “The sheer size of it is what’s got me. When you look at the pictures, they show the trees in the foreground and it’s way beyond that, it was very big.

“It landed beyond the horizon, that’s how big it was - we couldn’t see it land.”

Gerry compared his sighting to a similar incident in Bristol just a few days ago.

He said: “They have put it down as a UFO on fire, which I don’t think this was, but it was so, so bright.

“We see a lot of strange things down the river, but that’s the first time we’ve ever seen something like that.”

Cambridgeshire is a hotbed for UFO sightings in recent years, but some enthusiasts believe the government is covering up the full extent of the phenomenon.