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The object seemed to change from shape to shape
These bizarre shapes were caught on camera by a man when he started filming the planet Venus over New York.

The video was shot by Tony Shea, who runs his own online space and paranormal site called Shea Magazine, after he said he "felt presence".

He wrote in an article with the footage filmed in New York: "I got up this morning at about 2 am, awoken by a strange dream.

"Somewhere around 5 am I noticed that there was a strange round object in the sky.

"I thought at first it was the reflection of my computer off the window.

"But then something else strange happened, I felt an odd presence watching me somehow, like a beam coming through the window, and then I grabbed a camera and started recording.


"And this is what I saw looking northeast."

He said the shape morphed between a flaming ball, fiery triangle, planet or molecule, an angular shape, and a jellyfish.

It even appears like a puffer fish or cells under a microscope at one stage.

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© Tony SheaThe object morphed into various shapes, but some said it was an optical illusion
He added: "Now I'm sure the scientists among you will provide me with whatever reasonable explanation there is, provided that meteors, or distant planets, or nuclear explosions in space can be thought of as reasonable.

"I myself was somewhat sleep deprived and looked upon whatever phenomenon was occurring with a sense of mystical appreciation and wonder."

Mr Shea did consider it could be a planet as Venus, Jupiter and Mars are visible this month in eastern skies.

He added: "Perhaps it is a star, and this is what a nuclear explosion in space looks like, which also might make sense. Maybe it's a meteor flying though space.

"It does look a planet, for a while at least. And then it changes, becomes more liquid, becomes more fiery, seems to breathe and change shape, and does appear to be burning, and sort of beating like heart.

"Then it becomes more molecular, changes shapes again, and so on."

Viewers of his clip, said it was nothing more than optical illusions caused by the camera lens.

Sandy Asher wrote: "Tony — Our friend, Professor Marc Cooper, explains it thusly - it's Venus.

"The point source illuminates the inside of the lens.

"In any case, Venus is very bright this month in the eastern sky in the hours before dawn."

But another poster, Sally, though Venus would have slowly moved.

She said: "Very intriguing video."

And Scott C Waring, of UFO Sightings Daily, is convinced it was an extra terrestrial living being.

He said: "These shape shifting UFO are seen around the world, but most often around July and August of every year. They are marked by the bumps on them that change positions and by the microbe-like appearance.

"They are most often mistaken for stars, but when you look through a camera, they are never just round.

"This one is unusually close, but it may be his monster zoom he's got on his camera.

"The fact that he felt a presence as if someone was watching him is a fact that is sometimes reported by eyewitnesses. This is a living entity that is observing the people below. What a remarkable sighting."