A group of fishermen stare in amazement as a ‘ UFO ‘ hovers in midair above the rain forest before suddenly disappearing into the dense canopy of trees.

The men, fishing from a boat in a river, captured the haunting images on a mobile phone just as the sun was coming up.

It lingers just above the vast vegetation for several seconds before dipping below the horizon.

In the footage, posted on YouTube, the shocked fellas discuss the jaw-dropping sight in Portuguese.

It comes after another bizarre object was spotted deep in the Amazon basin earlier this year.

The unidentified shape, believed by some to be an alien spaceship, also appeared to be using the trees as cover as it was only visible using satellite imagery.

This latest sighting echoes 1987 action horror film Predator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger , in which an extraterrestrial craft crash lands in the jungle, sparking a fight to the death with a group of special forces soldiers.