The footage shows what appears to be a pattern of bright lights hovering above the Nasa run base.

Strange footage has captured the moment conspiracy theorists say an alien mothership sH๏τ a laser beam at the International Space Station. The clip, which had amᴀssed around 25,000 views, was posted to YouTube by UFO hunter Streetcap1

‘What was that red beam? All of the astronauts on the ISS have info we can only imagine about.

‘That beam could be anything from information or even teleportation.

‘That beam is real, the only definite we have!’

The footage shows what appears to be a pattern of bright lights hovering above the Nasa run base. Moments later, a red beam of light seems to pulse from the object toward the habitat, occupied by astronauts from five space agencies

Captain Jay added: ‘The color red is able to store data at the highest level and possibly what you caught was a communication transfer of data or a probing beam to collect data.’

Not everyone was convinced an extra terrestrial explanation was in order.

Nasa has once again been accused of covering up the existence of alien life, after an astronaut captured footage of a UFO. The mysterious object (circled)  was spotted entering Earth’s atmosphere by one of the crew of the International Space Station

Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli sH๏τ the clip, which shows a fiery ball of light racing towards the Earth’s atmosphere

Tyler Glockner, who runs alien hunting YouTube Channel SecureTeam10, believes it is more proof of a government conspiracy to hide the existence of aliens

Mr Glockner says that the round ball is coming in at too steep an angle and too slowly to be a meteorite

Nasa has previously been accused of covering up an alien sighting after a video surfaced showing six UFOs pᴀssing the ISS (pictured) live-stream shortly before it was cut