A Saudi newspaper on Friday published a film showing what it described as an unidentified flying object (UFO) passing above the western town of Medina.

Sada Arabic language daily said the film was captured by a local man who happened to be near the Prophet's Mosque around 9.00 pm local time.

"I was passing just near the mosque when I saw the object...I captured a film of it but I could not trace it as it split into two or three parts," Fahd Al Harbi told the paper.