A mystery UFO with “spinning fiery thrusters” has been spotted as a US officer has claimed it could be alien.

The footage has sent shockwaves through the UFO community and appears to show an unknown craft similar in shape and design to spaceships seen in the hit film Independence Day.

The UFO-like object also seems to have a fiery thruster on the back that burns with different intensities.

Cao said: “It’s the closest thing to a flying saucer I’ve ever seen and it’s not a dot in the sky, it’s clearly visible.”

Former US Intelligence Officer, Colonel Octavio Pérez appeared on the show to add his thoughts to the clip.

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He said the aircraft possibly uses an anti-gravitational system, suggesting it could be extraterrestrial or a spy plane adapted from alien technology.

Paranormal Tenerife wrote: “This is one of the clips that caught my attention the most. It has a different design to the typical.”

The viral video comes amid a growing wave of statements and testimonies in the US about the existence of UFOs.

Former US intelligence official David Grusch recently claimed before Congress that the government maintains a secret UFO recovery program and is in possession of “non-human” spacecraft and “ᴅᴇᴀᴅ pilots”.

The Havana sighting and recent revelations in the US have fuelled growing speculation about the existence of extraterrestrial life and the role of governments in concealing such information.