A GLASGOW man has been left gobsmacked after spotting a mystery object “falling from the sky” – leaving a dark trail of smoke over the city.

Mark McMillan was standing outside his home in Drumchapel when he snapped the eerie smoke at around 11.30pm on Sunday night.

2 The diving item hurtled towards Glasgow flats

Mark, 33, said: “I was taking the bins out when I saw something diving from the sky.

“All I could see was this dark line going down towards the flats.

“But it looked like the smoke was trailing something.”

The mysterious falling object comes as a Chinese space station – the size of a double-decker bus – hurtled towards Earth at 17,000mph.

2 It left a trail of black smoke over the city

China’s space agency said Tiangong-1 – which weighed 9 TONNES – came to a fiery end off the coast of Tahiti in the early hours of this morning.

Mark added: “Someone said to me it could have been something from the Chinese space station but who knows.”

It’s not the first time mystery has shrouded Glasgow’s skies.

A shining object hovering over Glasgow homes sparked UFO fears last summer.

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We told earlier how Scotland and the rest of the UK has become a hotspot of alien activity.

Since the early 1900s there have been 104,947 worldwide reports of flying objects and more than a tenth of those have been in Britain, with rising numbers logged each year.

Bonnybridge in Falkirk is among the best places on the planet for a close encounter, with 300 a year.