CCTV has caught the moment mysterious blue lights flashed across the sky - leaving residents baffled.

Georgina Southgate, who lives in Sturry near Canterbury, was walking to her car with her sister when she witnessed the blinding beam.

Mysterious lights flash across Canterbury

The 22-year-old was left puzzled and still does not know what she witnessed at about 10.20pm on Wednesday.

“Me and my sister had just headed out to the shops to get some stuff in," the 22-year-old writer said.

“There was a storm outside and we were trying to get to the car.

“But we saw these blue flashes and we just stopped.

Blue lights beam across the city

“They flashed really quickly and it looked like it came from a row of houses."

She checked footage captured by CCTV cameras attached to her home in Cedar Road which caught the strange spectacle.

"We had no idea what it was and started joking it was aliens like in War of the Worlds - but obviously it’s not," she added.

"I posted the videos on Facebook and everybody has had theories of what it is but we still don’t know."

Some speculated it had came from a power cable as there were outages reported in the area.

Others made jokes that it had been a UFO landing in the area, while some claimed it was a hoax.

Did you witness the mysterious blue lights on Wednesday? Do you know what caused it? Contact kentishgazette@thekmgroup.co.uk

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