A family has spoken of the terrifying moment they saw a UFO hovering above their house for four hours.

Morag Ritchie, 50, was awoken in the middle of the night by flashing lights in the sky over the family home in rural Scotland.

The grandmother-of-one woke her family up and her daughter’s fiance caught the shocking images of four blinking lights on video.

Given the video, the Civil Aviation Authority's official explanation of it possibly being "northern lights" is so ridiculous on its face, that it sounds like the ravings of a lunatic. To read more and view the video, click here.