A VIDEO of a bright ball of light flying through the air has even the experts baffled.

The video, snapped in the northern suburbs, appears to show a bright object drifting through the sunset.

The UFO has a thick and short tail, ruling out the possibility of a meteorite. Others speculated the item could have been space junk making a fiery re-entry.

That does not look like space junk or a meteor to me. To read more and view the video, click here.