A video said to show a UFO flying close to a passenger jet in the skies over Midlothian has been posted on video-sharing website YouTube.

The video, said to have been filmed from Birkenside in Gorebridge at 10.30pm last Thursday night, appears to show an orb of light passing over the jet in the opposite direction of flight.

Posted by 51-year-old Jackie Gillies, it is the latest in a series of strange sightings over the Lothians in recent years.

In April last year orange orbs were seen over the Braid Hills, but they were later dismissed as Chinese lanterns.

In 2007, the Government opened UFO records for the first time, with sightings including a series of flashing lights over Corstorphine Hill in 1998.