A yellowish white object in the sky has been spotted, prompting calls for witnesses to the mysterious sighting to come forward. William Pleass, of Earlham Green Lane, spotted the object from his bedroom window this morning (Monday) at about 2.45am.

He said: "I was roused by my partner to look from our bedroom window on Earlham Green Lane at a yellowish white object in the sky. She said that she had also seen it on other recent nights, that it had 'lights on it' and that she had seen it move.

"While I was thinking it might be one of the stars it started to look as if it were spinning on its own axis and that this spin was slowing down.

"Then it made a few short darting movements culminating in what I thought for an instant might be a fall from the sky but was only to an elevation one or two degrees lower.

"Shortly afterward it disappeared for about 10 minutes, possibly behind cloud. I fetched some binoculars when it reappeared and seemed to see a varying luminous shape, often elliptical, with brighter lights around the perimeter.

"I wonder whether anybody else saw this object or can explain it."