WATCH: optical illusion causes ship to float in sky

Footage has been captured of a stunning optical illusion, showing a ship floating above the water in Banff, Aberdeenshire.

Colin McCallum spotted the red ship apparently hovering above the horizon.

In the footage, low-lying cloud makes it difficult to see where the pale blue water ends and the similar coloured sky begins. The ship’s keel is submerged in the water, but it looks like a shallow vessel hovering.

“When I first saw the boat, I had to do a double-take because I genuinely thought it was floating,” McCallum told the Daily Mail.

“Upon further inspection, however, I noticed that it was in fact just a remarkable optical illusion.”

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