If aliens are real then it appears they are becoming savvier at getting our attention. Early risers in Texas got a surprise when a UFO shot through the sky live on breakfast TV.

Sharp eyed viewers spotted the white light flash across the screen as local station KXAS showed a traffic camera looking across Fort Worth at 5:40am.

In the top right of the video a bright light drops out of the sky and disappears. A slow-motion replay of the footage appears to show a faint light veering off at an angle to the right of the picture. [dailymail]

Station managers have called in UFO investigators to review the footage.

Viewers speculated that it could be a shooting star or possibly an insect reflecting light from the television tower where the camera is mounted.

What is it? The flash of light was captured on film at 5:40am

But others said they had seen the bright light with their own eyes.

'I was sitting outside my neighbors house and saw the flash of light in the sky go over the trees. Bill my neighbor saw it too,' a viewer wrote on the station's website.

'This looks more like a meteor that has reached the Earth's atmosphere but due to the severe stress of gravity at hyper speeds has been redirected,' wrote another.

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