Mystery lights spotted in the skies over Kent have prompted baffled speculation on social media.

People in Folkestone, Ashford and beyond have reported seeing unusual-looking illuminations in the night sky yesterday and many took to Facebook to share pictures and video.

Footage of the mysterious lights seen over Kent

Witnesses describe seeing a cloud-like object and a light moving silently through the dusky skies.

Linda Hicks saw the lights from her home in Cheriton Gardens, Folkestone, shortly before 9pm and went outside to see what it was.

She said: "I was at home and saw it through the lounge windows, I initially thought it was a sky-lantern but stepped outside into the garden to watch it.

"It was silent and moving at a steady pace. A small light with a cloud moving steadily, and constantly ahead of it. No other clouds as you can see from the pictures.

"I thought that maybe it was a drone but no sound that I could hear. I don't think it's aliens, just something unexplained for now.

"It's been suggested that it was a recently launched rocket in a low orbit, and I guess that's possible. Could have been moving much more quickly than I imagined, just in a higher orbit."

Kurt Horn also saw this lights in Ashford, and captured them on camera.

He said: "I was in the back garden having a cigarette and I noticed what looked to be a low flying plane, but I couldn't understand why there was two lights so close to each other. The two lights turned into one big orb resembling a lone cloud just drifting."

Although plenty of people online responded with tongue-in-cheek talk of little green men, others were certain the lights could be explained by events across the Atlantic in Florida.

At around 7pm UK time, US-company SpaceX, founded by richest man in the world Elon Musk, launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida to deliver 53 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit - quite possibly explaining the objects in the sky later in the night.