A pilot has witnessed and filmed in detail several UFOs manoeuvring across the night sky in ways he says would be “impossible” for a man-made plane or satellite.

Captain Ruud Van Pangemanan, who is also a vlogger, was flying a Boeing 747 from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to Abuja, Nigeria at 5am recently when the stunning act crossed his view and that of his colleagues in the cockpit.

The New York Post shared the moment a pilot believes he has spotted a UFO on his horizon recently.

He described the extremely vivid, starlike object — there was also a sudden streak seen across the sky far below it — as “dancing”.

The free-moving unidentified aerial pneumonia plunges quickly before shooting back to around its original altitude.

“Is it falling down?” Mr Van Pangemanan says while witnessing the aerial phenomena in motion on the right wing side of his aircraft.

It also aggressively broke off in other directions at random and with no indication of directional change, eerily similar to a UFO depicted in the hit show “The X Files.”

“The light of the UFO in front of us moves freely. Sometimes forward, sometimes backward, sometimes left, right, or vice versa,” the pilot added.

The object’s bright light was also seen flickering at times and fully disappeared during moments as well. A Reddit user re-uploaded the footage with visual enhancements to make the object easier to spot.

Later on in the clip, multiple similar-looking bright objects are observed in the sky as the pilots are overheard describing them as UFOs.

Footage taken by Mr Van Pangemanan shows that at least three of the shining dots — Mr Van Pangemanan said he saw as many as four — aligned in a way similar to the Phoenix Lights, a widely viewed 1997 phenomenon over Arizona that is still without explanation.

The pilot also ruled out any Earthly possibilities.

“We thought the light was a plane but it wasn’t on our radar,” he said. “Then we thought maybe it was a star but the stars twinkled quickly and the stars didn’t move.”

Mr Van Pangemanan dismissed the potential it could be a satellite, especially considering how many of Elon Musk’s Starlink launches are typically mistaken for UFOs.

“It is impossible for a satellite to move like that,” he said.

Adding to the hysteria, several people commented on the pilot’s YouTube vlog and said they had seen similar.

“I am Brazilian. Yesterday 08/10/24 I saw an object EXACTLY like this! It was hovering and came in my home direction,” one person wrote.

“My wife and I sit in our garden here in the UK. Every single night, if we have a clear sky, you will see lights travel across the sky that will suddenly grow bright, exactly what you see in this video,” added another.