Stargazers in the UK have reported seeing trains of bright lights shooting across the sky in recent days, as Elon Musk's Starlink satellite network grows.

One Briton said he had seen as many as 60 of the satellites shooting over the UK yesterday evening. "It's getting like Star Wars up there," he wrote on Twitter.

Another commented that there were "weird and mysterious UFO-like lights spotted in the Somerset sky".

Similar sightings are likely in the days and weeks ahead, experts claim. You can see the best time to spot a satellite passing here.

Mr Musk's SpaceX business has been launching the satellites in batches of 60 since last May, with a total of 300 having been fired into the sky so far. However, the numbers are expected to ramp up rapidly.

The company has US approval to launch 12,000 satellites, and is hoping to do so by the mid-2020s. Last year, it filed paperwork to launch an extra 30,000 Starlink satellites.

The plan is ultimately to create an orbiting network which can provide global internet coverage.