Orange Light Sightings-October 2009-Volume 1
Each month we receive a large number of eye witness accounts of sightings of single and multiple orange light formations in the sky. In many cases it is evident that the most likely explanation would be Chinese Lanterns released in the local area.
Due to time constraints a point has been reached where we need to decide whether to completely disregard these types of sightings or not. As a result it has been decided to set up on trial basis this dedicated section to log those eye witness accounts which are considered to be high probability “Chinese Lantern” sightings based on the information provided.
Any such sightings received through the “Submit Sighting Form” will initially be posted as a comment in this section. If at a later date supporting information comes to light suggesting the sightings may not be chinese lanterns then the eye witness account will be reposted as a sighting report under it’s county area.
The “Orange Light Sightings” will be published in Volumes of about 20 eye witness accounts.
We hope you enjoy reading the many graphic accounts submitted.
Chinese Lanterns or UFO-You Decide!
October 15th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Location of Sighting: Grimsby
Date of Sighting: 01/10/09
Time: 20:20 pm
Witness Name: david campbell
Witness Statement: I was driving to a shop in central grimsby when I saw a bright orange light in the sky. I pulled over and then I saw there were two the same. They were brighter than a star and maybe 3 or 4 times larger. They moved slowly with no noise. One faded and then they both disappeared. I watched them for over a minute. Several other people were stood nearby watching them.
October 15th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Location of Sighting: CHATHAM
Date of Sighting: 1.OCTOBER 2009
Time: 1945
Witness Name: IRIS CLAY-SIMMONS
Witness Statement: 4 VERY BRIGHT ORANGE OBJECTS FLYING SILENTLY IN A SOUTHERLY DIRECTION ACROSS THE MEDWAY TOWNS. FIRSTLY IN A LINE FORMATION, THEN 2 RISING UP UNTIL OUT OF SIGHT AND 2 DROPPING DOWN INTO THE CLOUDS . 4 OTHER WITNESSES
October 15th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Location of Sighting: bolton
Date of Sighting: 1st oct 2009
Time: aprox 8-30pm
Witness Name: jeff
Witness Statement: was outside the house and saw a red/amber light and saw flames falling down off it thought it was a plane on fire could not hear any sound it wobbled in the air then did a right angle turn heading for manchester as it got higher it faded. first time i have seen anything like this. did anyone see this aswell. i am baffled.
October 15th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
hello ,I was awake early on august 19th at 5,20 am ,.l looked out of the window when i noticed two lights slowly comming towards me, i went outside to see what it could be. There was no noise ,just these two bright lights shining as it went over my house in LONGFORD .t was deffinately not an aeroplane or any such thing sharon gloucester
October 15th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Location of Sighting: Hythe
Date of Sighting: 02-Octobor-2009
Time: 20:45
Witness Name: Leigh
Witness Statement: I was in the loft room in my house in seabrook looking out to sea. I saw a bright Orange light moving east across the sea. It was moving to fasy for a boat and looked like it was above the sea level.
No Noise was present from the craft what ever it was. i lost sight of it going over to east towards Sangate/Folkestone.
October 15th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Location of Sighting: Loughton, ESSEX
Date of Sighting: Thursday 1st October 2009
Time: approx. 10:30pm.
Witness Name: Honey Koumis
Witness Statement: I was driving up Alderton Hill in Loughton (towards Borders Lane) when I noticed a very bright orange light in the sky to my right. I slowed down to get a better look and saw that it was a large bright orange ball, not quite as high as a star and certainly not an aeroplane. It was not perfectly round in shape but seemed to be still and flickering a little. As I continued to watch this strange ball of light I noticed it was slowly moving down. I pulled over desperately looking for my mobile which obviously I couldn’t find! It disappeared behind the house in front of me as it came downwards so I began to drive where I could get it in view. Once I did see it again it seemed to have travelled away from my direction within a matter of seconds and became a tiny orange dot in the sky. I have never in my life experienced anything like this! Did anyone else see this on Thursday night? It was a very clear night and was impossible to miss!
October 15th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
we saw at around 5.50 pm a strange thing in the sky only about 200ft high and rising… at the traffic lights on liverpool rd in salford just past dulux heading to the m602 it was like a mini hot air balloon almost like a paper bag with an orange glow underneath??
did anyone else see this….
October 15th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
I saw 2 of these orange lights just as described in deeping st james tonight. 16th Oct 09 no idea what they were. if any one finds out please let me know.
October 16th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
a comment to jeffs account i seen exactly the same thing although i live in birmingham and it was on the 13th of october an orange ball in the sky looked like a plane or something on fire with bit breaking off that seemed to be on fire glad me and my partner wasnt the only people to witness something like this!
October 16th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Just seen a bright orange ball head from the direction of Oldham, over Royton and to the right of Manchester but it seemed to just dissapear. It was to low and bright to be an aircraft. It was silent and travelling in a straight line. First reaction was a shooting star or somthing falling to earth that had just burned out but I don’t know. Anyone else see anything ?
October 16th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Location of Sighting: New Malden, Surrey
Date of Sighting: 2nd October 2009
Time: 22:30
Witness Name: Tony Cooper
Witness Statement: Walking one of my two dogs, nearing home when one, then a second, third and then a fourth round orange light appeared over the roof tops travellling quite serenely from west to east. Difficult to estimate height and size but I felt that they were below cloud level and about the size of a 5 pence piece held at arms length. Kept in sight until obscuured by buildings opposite. Hurried home to tell my partner but they were gone when we looked. Discussed for a few minutes then my other dog insisted on being taken for his walk. As I turned the first corner of our block another orange light came into view following the direction of the previous four. When I returned home my partner said that she had also seen this one whilst standing in the garden with the first dog.
This area is on the main flight pattern for Heathrow airport and we are familiar with aircraft. These objects made no sound and glowed steadily, there were no navigation lights. My partner said it was “spooky”.
I’d love to know whether anybody else saw these lights or can explain them.
October 16th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Location of Sighting: WIlnecote
Date of Sighting: 2/10/2009
Time: 7pm
Witness Name: S Brown
Witness Statement: Red/orange star shaped. Moving really slowly, flying low and like an insect darting about. Totally silent and stayed in view for some time. Viewed by self and neighbours.
October 16th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Location of Sighting: Blindley Heath, Surrey
Date of Sighting: 2nd October 2009
Time: 20:40
Witness Name: Margaret
Witness Statement: As I left the house to get in my car, I noticed some orange lights appearing in the sky and moving in an easterly direction. In all, 9 appeared, moving silently, unevenly spaced, then disappeared, possibly into cloud. They were very bright and not flickering.
October 16th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Your Name Symone
Message hey
i have also seen orange lights in the sky
im not sure what they are
at first i thought it was meteor
i have seen to many to think they might be something else.
i have seen a ufo over the glen in runcorn palcefields in 2006
it took over the whole 2 glens
i thought i was dreaming
it was round and look like metal
to be honest i was scared and there was 4 over people in the car.
October 16th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Location of Sighting: Blindley Heath, Surrey
Date of Sighting: 2/10/09
Time: Approx 9:30pm I think
Witness Name: Tracey Coleman
Witness Statement: I saw a line of about 9 orange lights in the sky, moving quite slowly and quite high in the sky. They were unevenly spaced and followed the same line. They didn’t seem to be flickering, and looked spherical. They disappeared in the Lingfield direction.
October 16th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Location of Sighting: Bere Alston
Date of Sighting: 3/10/09
Time: 2225
Witness Name: Geoffrey Gould
Witness Statement: Spotted travelling rapidly below the cloud was an object like a fireball.It went over the village & then started to rise before disappearing into the clouds. It moved extremely fast,wasn’t a plane & there was no sound.
October 16th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
Location of Sighting: HOWDEN , LIVINGSTON
Date of Sighting: 03/10/09
Time: APPROX HALF 12 AT NIGHT
Witness Name: LANA, HOLLY SHAUN DARREN ASHLEY DANIEL
Witness Statement: We looked out the window and saw three orange fire ball looking objects moving accross the sky towards edinburgh direction, my sister had also seen another four before hand , hence why we were all looking out the window, they wer all too fast moving to be a plane or helicopter and disappeared in to the distance? di anybody else see the same ??
October 16th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Location of Sighting: Doncaster Road Upminster Essex
Date of Sighting: 30 oct 2009
Time: 23:55
Witness Name: chris & rita skeats
Witness Statement: Large orange ball flying below clouds (looked like a hot air balloon) but going to fast for one, going south to north made no noise flew stopped and hovered accelerated stopped then accelerated again
October 16th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Location of Sighting: bodmin
Date of Sighting: 03/10/09
Time: 20.00
Witness Name: M Hatchell
Witness Statement: 4 Consequtive orange light equally distance coming from the west towards bodmin, it would seem over bodmin turning north, no sound, equally distanced then lights out. Full moon and this happened last year in august with the same M.O.
Multiple witnesses in the area
October 17th, 2009 at 3:02 am
Just seen eleven or more flashing orange and red lights in the sky in the north south east and west directions they seem to be everywhere, quite freaked out as one is just hovering and its not high up. The others are moving very fast without noise…
October 17th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
I saw an orange globe from my flat balcony in Ipswich over the river orwell last Christmas eve at around 9.45pm.I had a very clear view of it as it moved from right to left and stopped directly in front of me at an estimated height of 50-60 feet in the air. there was no wind and no sound.It was a mottled orange/red colour which was constantly changing.This ‘energy’ appeared to be escaping out of the top of the globe, it remained motionless in front of me and slowly got smaller and smaller until it finally disappeared from sight.It was NOT a Chinese lantern,it did not fall to the ground or move,it simply seemed to phase out. Since then I have read reports from around the world of exactly the same event taking place. I do not think there is a worldwide conspiracy to release Chinese Lanterns as a hoax, it is too widespread and there are too many. I think that maybe we are being alerted to the presence of some intelligent beings in a non frightening way so as not to cause panic, maybe they are not happy with the way this planet is being run by certain very rich people at the top, maybe the sightings will increase as we approach 2012! I think that people who just say off hand that these are lanterns are an insult to my intelligence.
October 18th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Location of Sighting: Aylestone, Leicester
Date of Sighting: 4 October 2009
Time: 20:04
Witness Name: C.Parker
Witness Statement: A bright orange ball appeared and was stationary for a few seconds then rapidly ascended vertically, then started to head east – very fast and totally silent.
October 18th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Location of Sighting: Wickford, Essex
Date of Sighting: 3 October 2009
Time: 11:30
Witness Name: Bernadette Bentley, Richard Bentley, Jules Pretorius, Martin Pretorius, Ross Hicks, Ashley Pretorius
Witness Statement: Very similar to one in August on your site. Two orange lights diagonal formation, followed by at least eight. We all watched from the garden – it was beautiful and fascinating. No noise at all, no explanation – we thought of everything, balloons, light aircraft, stealth aircraft – but !!???
As quickly as they came they simply disappeared into the clouds. Did anyone else see them?
October 18th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Location of Sighting: ruislip middlesex
Date of Sighting: 3rd october 2009
Time: 10.46pm
Witness Name: jade gates
Witness Statement: Me and all my friends were sitting in my living room when one of my friends went outside for a cigarette and shout oh my god look at that we all ran outside and saw a bright orangey yellow light coming towards us, it looked like a plane on fire but seemed to fast to be a plane we also recorded it on our camera for about 5mins then the light just disappered.
October 18th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Location of Sighting: alloa inglewood road
Date of Sighting: 03/10/2009
Time: 21.05
Witness Name: lee
Witness Statement: at first there was one glowing orange light moving quite slowly over by the west then 20 mins later there were another six of these strange orange balls all bright orange with a lighter colour of orange to the outer of the craft there wasnt any sound from these objects and no flashing lights.there was a few people up the street out in there gardens that seen this too and about a month ago i seen another three of these objects same things but this time two of them went straight across the sky and the other one stopped for about ten seconds then shot straight up in to the sky. very interesting stuff.
October 18th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Location of Sighting: Stoneydelph, Tamworth, Staffs,UK
Date of Sighting: 04/10/09
Time: 1900 hours
Witness Name: Lisa Anderson & Adele Tomlinson
Witness Statement: While walking dogs on the fields adjacent to the M42 motorway near to Middlesmoor, Stoneydelph we saw what I first thought was a hot air balloon travelling from the direction of Dordon over the M42 towards Stoneydelph. It appeared to have a large orange flame underneath what looked like an orange canopy almost like a balloon. We could not see a basket and we realised it was travelling far too fast for a hot air balloon. As we watched it stopped in the sky almost above us but still very high up, then moved quickly from side to side, then stopped again for approx 1 minute. It then seemed to rise upwards very fast and then the flame went out and we could see a black shape which then moved off fast towards Atherstone and out of sight in the clouds. There was absolutley no wind this evening and due to the noise from the motorway we couldnt say whether there was any noise from the object. Anyone else see it?????
October 18th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Location of Sighting: Tetney Nr Grimsby
Date of Sighting: 04 october 2009
Time: 19.14pm
Witness Name: jeremy booth
Witness Statement: working on vehicle outside my house when, two of the next doors kids shouted look at that. as i turned around i saw a round object flying up the river humber it looked like it was on fire. 10 seconds later the object took a sharp 90 degree right turn and headed off to the north sea. the hole thing was over within 3 mins
October 18th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Location of Sighting: clinkham wood
Date of Sighting: 04 oct09
Time: 7.30pm
Witness Name: e mccoy
Witness Statement: just seen orange orb hovering in sky, it was like looking into a glowing furnace, one side of the orb was irregular. may be a natural explanation but I haave never seen anything like it before.
October 18th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Location of Sighting: Kingstanding, Birmingham
Date of Sighting: 4th Oct 2009
Time: Approx 19.30
Witness Name: The Austwick Family
Witness Statement: My wife, came running down the stairs shouting to look outside at an orange light travelling across the sky. All four of us went outside our conservatory and watched as the orange ball flew past at the speed you would associate with a passenger jet. I did manage to capture some video footage on my iphone but the quality is quite poor but shows the object as white with flashing lights. We watched the object travel toward Sutton Coldfield before losing sight of it. We did not hear any noise from the object. My first thought was a meteor but it was flying below the clouds and across, not down.
October 18th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Location of Sighting: Northwich cheshire
Date of Sighting: 4 September 2009
Time: About 19.30
Witness Name: Bill caffery
Witness Statement: My son and his friend came running in saying that they have just seen a comet and described it as 3 orange balls going very fast and they also saw a purple car with a man and women in it who also saw them
October 18th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Location of Sighting: Harborne, Birmingham
Date of Sighting: 04 October 2009
Time: 19.05
Witness Name: Alex Evans
Witness Statement: Two orange spheres with thin red halos, travelling NW to E direction at 60′ elevation. One continued slowly & disappeared behind thick cloud, other hovered for about 2 min before moving off in same direction as other.
October 18th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Location of Sighting: middlewood road, hillsborough, sheffield
Date of Sighting: 04/10/2009
Time: 1900-2030
Witness Name: michael killick
Witness Statement: i have just seen 5 orange orbs floating over hillsborough park, the appeared pretty big and where traveling at a pretty high speed, they seemed to be heading out of our atmosphere, my partner thought it must be a plane but a plane went by 5 mins later with red and white flashing lights that was continuasly visible all the way across the sky where as the orbs vanished out of sight, my partner then acyually saw one and addmits they cant hav been a plane and the birightness was causing a second reflection further up in the sky. what where these mysterious orbs?????
October 20th, 2009 at 11:48 am
October 19th, 2009. Around 1930.
Strange balls of orange floating in the air making no sound coming from the end of a street. When in view, they fly in formation then slowly disband and grow dimmer. Saw about 10, there were 2 helicopters watching also, flew over to see what they were did not see that helicopter again.
October 21st, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Location of Sighting: Bolsover, Derbyshire
Date of Sighting: 04 october 2009
Time: 19.54
Witness Name: Beckii Hall
Witness Statement: Me and my best friend were walking down the road coming back from the shop and we saw this bright orange light flying really low, it was like a flying fire and little bits of orange kept dropping from it and then it just disappeared.
October 21st, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Location of Sighting: Abbeymead, Gloucester
Date of Sighting: 04.10.2009
Time: 21.00
Witness Name: Kim, Bob and Bethany
Witness Statement: A single bright orange light travelling silently at speed.
October 21st, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Location of Sighting: Old Catton, Norwich
Date of Sighting: 03.10.09
Time: approx 7.00pm
Witness Name: carl rowe
Witness Statement: Seemingly large object (bright orange sodium light) moved across the sky with steady trajectory. Appeared in south and tracked north to disappear over horizon. Total time taken to traverse south to north approx 180 seconds. Appeared to be tumbling or rolling. No sound.
October 21st, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Location of Sighting: Leeds (rothwell/wakefield area)
Date of Sighting: 04 october 2009
Time: approx 10:00pm
Witness Name: ric
Witness Statement: Driving home glanced up at sky to see 2 orange lights, very bright, i pulled over to see what they were and they were moving very fast, then would stop for a few seconds then speed off again, then stop etc, i drove in the direction of the lights and when in the area of them my radio in my car started to get interference!!
October 21st, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Location of Sighting: Bangor co down ni
Date of Sighting: 04/10/09
Time: 10.30pm
Witness Name: William Millen
Witness Statement: I saw 3 bright lights in the sky, this is the 2nd weekend i have saw weird lights across bangors sky. It wasnt a plane or helicopter it had strange lights on it and this went on for over ten mins
October 21st, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Location of Sighting: sellars wood drive bulwell
Date of Sighting: 4th October 2009
Time: 9.05 pm
Witness Name: jacqueline
Witness Statement: My friend and i were walking the dog we both stopped to look up there was a orange light in the sky like a small fire had been lit the was no sound anywhere
we watched the light for about 1 min and then there seemed to be a brighter light in the middle of it , as though some one had threw a fire lighter into the middle to ignite it again
the sky was very clear and it was almost like the flames from an hot air balloon without the balloon
all of a sudden after the light seemed to ignite the shape shot off at speed into the distance still with no sound
i thought that a plane was in the sky and that the engine at caught on fire at first but it shot off to quickly to be a plane
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:37 pm
MON 12 OCT 8.45PM WE SEEN A BRIGHT ORANGE UFO IN THE SKY OVER WOODCHURCH IN UPTON ON THE WIRRAL ME MY WIFE MY 2 CHILDREN MY NEIGHBOUR AND MY DAUGHTERS FRIEND I BELIEVE THERE WAS A NEWS THING ON IT BUT NOT SURE WHICH NEWS SOMEONE HAD FILMED IT
October 24th, 2009 at 3:08 am
it seems exactly like what i seen in prestatyn on two ocassions now the first was one object like as if there was a fire on the hillside but then took off and went very high into the sky performing manouveres ,the second time i seen two objects travelling together the same colour and behaving not like normal aircraft
October 25th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
On the 22nd of October my sister was outside my mothers house in prenton wirral and saw a flame in the sky. Thinking it was a plane on fire she called my dad and mum. All three observed the object, appearing to be at the height and speed of an airliner. It was like “a flaming torch without the handle” and therefore not a conventional aircraft on fire (as the flames would flicker away from the direction of travel). It was a constant speed with no sound and was following an arcing flight path not straight (roughly south to north heading towards upton).
October 25th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Further to last, Dad is a bit of a plane spotter and with Liverpool airport and the military stuff in north wales there’s a lot of planes to see from the garden. He states it was following the flight path aircraft often take overhead, normally helicopters from the direction of north wales.
He thinks it was too fast and following too purposful of a flight path to be a chinese lantern.
October 25th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Stourbridge – West Midlands I was sat in the bedroom on my pc and turned to see a large bright orange ball of light in the sky (seemed to be hovering)lower than the height of a plane) My other half also saw this out of the lounge window and shouted me to see if i had seen it. It was far too large for any chinese lantern and it was rising to quickly into the sky, there was no sound at all to it. I viewed it through the window for about 30seconds watching it rising higher and getting smaller quite quickly, i then ran down stairs and outside into the street to see it was still visible but moving and shrinking faster and faster. We were both there amazed at this site. The ball got higher and higher and further away (going from West to East) until it eventually vanished out of site.
October 26th, 2009 at 1:30 am
wakefield horbury, around chrismas we saw the first one didnt think nothing of it, the it seemed to miss two days n we would see it again consistantly at the same time. but ten on new yrs eve we saw two, oval looking orange lights flying together weaving in and out togtether no noise. not seen then since till now they are back.
October 26th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
This sighting was at 5.45pm on Monday 26th October, in Tingley nr Wakefield/Leeds.#
I have never seen anything like this before !!
I was stood at the back door of our house looking southwards when i saw a bright orange light coming from the east, at first thinking it was the west yorkshire police helicopter taking off from nearby, but then realising it was traveling way too fast for it to be the ‘copper chopper’. I grabbed my phone to video the light, and just as i went back outside another one appeared from the same area and same speed. They both ‘hovered’ quite high in the sky, with no sound, and very slight movement. Both started to disapear upwards so i ran to grab the binoculars to see closer, both were quite far apart when i returned but still moving upwards and getting fainter, on inspection through the binocs, they almost looked as though the orange lights were beaming from the top of them. I watched them until they fully disapeared behind the clouds. I really dont think these were chinese lanterns as i have seen these before at a friends party, and the way they moved had no resemblance what so ever to what i just saw..
This sighting was at 5.45pm on Monday 26th October, in Tingley nr Wakefield/Leeds.
October 26th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
20:45, 26th October 2009
Brierley Near Barnsley, South Yorkshire
I was stood outside in the back garden when I saw a bright orange (like a flame/ burning ember) moving in the sky. It came over the house, into the wind in a dead straight line and then 1 minute later another one came over. There was no sound at all so ruleing out aircraft and travelled at a constant speed against the wind and I watched them disappear far into the distance.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Sighting – 18:30 26th Oct 2009, Redcar, Cleveland.
Walking home from work I spotted two orange globes in the sky, both heading West. Both were quite high in the sky and I could hear no noise. Suddenly one disappeared and the other gradually disappeared in roughly the same area in the sky as the first. The objects speed was similar to an aircraft. I would say the objects headed in from the North, possibly even from the North sea.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
20:30, 25th October 2009
Epsom, Surrey
I was outside having a ciggy and I saw a bright organge light coming from West, heading East. It looked high up to me and was travelling faster than an Airoplane (we live pretty much under a flight path so see these frequently). I watched it dissappear west and then another appeared from the east on the same projectory. In my humble opinion, these were not Chinese lanterns. The flame was far too big considering the height and speed they appeared to be travelling at.
October 29th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
22:00hrs, 29th Oct 2009
Above Castleford, West Yorkshire.
Stood talking to a mate outside and 4 times in different area’s of the sky we saw a large Orange light.
October 29th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
28th October 2009: orange glowing sphere high up in the sky above Loughborough villages. Moving north east, higher than the clouds as it moved behind them and then disappeared. Seemed to be dripping orange embers. Looked like it was moving too fast and too high to be a lantern. Also seemed fairly large considering it’s height. Anyone else see this around 8:45pm?
October 30th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Anon….one of the ones i saw (the second one) seemed to be dripping/releasing orange ember/spheres too, i thought it was my eyes at first or a trail when i looked through the binoculars. Glad you mentioned that. I didnt mention it cos i thought it was just me.
October 30th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Seen 3 over manchester last night, triangle formation maintaing speed and course in a straight line until fading away into the distance, made no noise
October 30th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Could these be missiles or rockets? Although they seemed to be going too slow and too large
October 30th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Large orange light travelling South To North over Worksop, South yorkshire at about 17:30 this evening – saw the same thing 2 nights ago a little later – exactly the same path, too large for a star / chinese lantern, very silent both times disaapeared into the sky, travelled a lot slower than a plane – no navigation / flashing lights seemed to drop a smaller flame only visable for a few seconds.
October 31st, 2009 at 7:42 pm
I have just seen this orange flame type object moving across the sky at high speed low altitude and moving in a straight line heading east across Milton Keynes. It is Halloween but this did spook me! No sound from object I would say it was travelling at about 250 mph and at about 1000ft I managed to get some video footage but very poor quality. It remained in view for about 3 mins. No flashing lights like on aircraft. It had the same sort of colour as an orange street lamp. Flames were clearly visible coming out at all angles though but no vapour trail etc. Weirdest thing I have seen yet?
October 31st, 2009 at 9:52 pm
We seen two orange Flame-like objects blaze across the sky at about 21:30, in Liverpool. One after another the second kind of following the second, no noise so definately not a helicopter or a plane the usuall objects. Maybe military Jets? Definately nothing me or my family have ever seen before !
October 31st, 2009 at 11:51 pm
I saw something similar at approximately 6.15pm over Northampton this evening. A bright orange light moving slowly across the sky. It looked like an object on fire but there was no smoke or jets of flame emanating from it. More like a fire ball. There was no sound either. I observed it for a couple of minutes until it disappeared out of view. About 5 minutes later we spotted it again but in a different position. It might have been the same object or a different one. If anyone has an explanation for this I’d love to hear it.
November 1st, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Same here it appeared about 5mins later, as my dad shouted the family out again we were rather spooked and we sore another object appear close to ground, heading towards us but just disappeared (could of been a firework
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November 1st, 2009 at 3:31 pm
i saw 7 orange like lites flying over harlow essex at 750pm last night,
the 1st 3 was ahead of the other 4, then they stopped until the 4 other caught up
they was in a v formation then they moved off upwards then 1 by 1 each objects lights went out in order from the last to the 1st that was no way its laterns not flying like that information
November 1st, 2009 at 5:48 pm
HALLOWEEN 31ST OCT 2009 – 9PM ISH
orange orbs in the sky (wheatley hills-doncaster)-seen by our group and also neighbours
silent moving and also stopping – bright orange ball of light – one floated over my house and another join it from a different directio.. what are they anyone – seen by friend the night before in intake doncaster.
November 1st, 2009 at 6:12 pm
I saw 2 orange lights over Rushden in Northamptonshire last night; 9.25 and 10.30pm. Moving very fast (too fast to be a plane) solid lights no flickering, quite large, no noise. I’ve always thought we are not alone but always think there must be an explaination for these sightings… however i can’t explain what i saw last night!!
November 1st, 2009 at 6:15 pm
maybe something was going on in our area as Pip in northampton saw lights but much earlier than me? any ideas anyone?????
November 1st, 2009 at 7:16 pm
At approx 20:45 outside my house in Doncaster, I noticed what appeared to be a large ball (although at distance) of fire comming towards me (from approx 5 miles away). The object then turned to my left (at speed) then it gained altitude then diminshed in size presumably due to distance rather than a reduction of luminosity. I am a rational person but I can’t describe this experience away. I have never seen anything like this before, I shouted for my cousin to witness the event. We discussed it afterwards at length and established that we had interepreted exactly the same event. Movement appeared controled/deliberate (not wind) and NOT a lantern unless it was EXTREMELY large with an outer combustible material whilst being able have zero effect on main structure and propulsion system.
November 1st, 2009 at 11:34 pm
I was walking home from a night out with my husband on Sat night/Sun morning Halloween night at 12:40am when we saw a glowing bright orange light. We at first thought it was a plane on fire but dismissed it as there was no engine noise or sound. We proceeded to the corner of our road and saw another one on exactly the same course, followed by two more in succession. To the naked eye from the ground, they were spaced around 30 seconds apart. They disappeared in the same spot, and when my husband ran to get his binoculars, he saw nothing and thought they had gone. However another one appeared, further apart from the other four and my husband got a clear view through the binoculars, it was circular and glowing bright orange. No sound and no vapour trail. I was disturbed to find this page as I thought this was a one-off. Very frightening.
November 1st, 2009 at 11:38 pm
I forgot to note in the entry above that I am based in North London.
November 2nd, 2009 at 2:03 am
As I got off the train at Swinton train station (S. Yorks) at approx. 10.35 pm I caught sight of a bright orange globe flying SSW – NNE.
There was no deviation of altitude or direction. It was very breezy at the time which leads me to discount the fact that it could have been a lantern balloon. Also, I will point out that the globe was solidly glowing with no flickering and no fade out at the edges like would be expected with one of the lanterns.
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:23 am
Walking my dogs 30/10/2009 at 7:11pm on field behind my house harehills leeds and saw orange light moving slowly from south to north leeds, at first it looked like it was dropping two things then it started moving slowly and the dissapeard, then about ten mins later it re-apeared moving east to west in a zig zag movement then as before it went out of sight. Then 31/10/2009 7-8pm both my boys and five of their frends were trick or treating and they saw it in the night sky and it was moving south to north and all the boys saw it as when they came in from getting their sweets they all said they had seen the strange orange light in the sky a few times each time it dissapered and came back a few mins later.
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:55 am
31st October 2009 – Halloween
central oxford during a guided walk though the city. Spotted along with other people 5 – 6 red orange orb like lights. they were in a string like an elongated necklace. Thought could be fireworks or helicopters, But remained in view for 5 minutes moving across the sky at a constant speed with no sound. we continued with the walk and then over a further 10 minutes saw another 20 similar lights pass over us. we never saw where they went, as disappeared from view through a tree and a building blocking our observation. when we moved to spot them again, we could not see them again.
November 2nd, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Saw 5 orange lights flying from direction of manchester city centre towards oldham all at the same speed and close together in a line and then one by one dissapered on 31st october around 6:30pm,anybody else see this.
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:37 pm
we saw 2 orange balls 2 on 31st october looked like it was on fire we live in warstock birmingham they wree there 4 about 3-5 mins
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:19 pm
I saw about 5 or 6 orange fire balls as i came back from trick or treating with my daughter around 9pm on halloween 2009 ,over ockendon,essex,heading towards harlow ,chelmsford way, then another lot again same thing all seperated same distance apart though going in straight line orange like fire balls all flying in the same direction with no noise …..what the hell was it??? i thought first is it a prank supposed to be witches on broom sticks or some thing …anyone else see it????
November 5th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
yesterday (4th Nov 2009) @ 7.15pm, i witnessed the same as what is described. It was a bright orange light travelling from west to east from the direction of walsall heading towards birmingham. I am located in sutton coldfield and watched this light from my back garden as it moved silently across. The intenstiy of the light was the same throughout and appeared to be flickering slightly as it moved along. Couldn’t make any shape out or judge how far it was away but it was below the cloud level and incredibly bright which is what drew my attention to it and why i know it wasn’t a lantern…it was just way too bright!
November 20th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Saw an orange light surrounded by an orange glow as I was about to enter my house in Letchworth, Herts at about 5.45 on October 31st. The object moved in a straight line past me and made no sound. I could clearly see flames in the middle of the glowing light. The object then moved in a curve before stopping and slowly fading out.
December 12th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
December 12th Ruislip Middx 21.20hrs
Saw a straight line of about 8 orange lights equal distance apart and no sound.These were followed by one orange light trailing futher behind.Just went off into the distance.My wife also saw them , we phoned a neighbour and he just managed to see the trailing orange light.
February 7th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
did anyone see bright reddish orange lights over redcar on sat6th feb 2010 i videod it the lights travelled westerly no sound stopped for about two minutes before ascending out of sight it definately wasn’t a plane helicopter balloon or lantern i’ve shown my family and friends the footage and there as baffled as me.
February 14th, 2010 at 12:27 am
I have witnessd this orange light, no sound- below cloud level.
At first I thought U.F.O.! (As I think this is most peoples conditional reaction to seeing strange lights in the sky)
I watched it dissapear into the distance then I came inside and typed in What I had seen, hence writing this on this Site. The statement at the top of the page said ‘Chinese lanterns, so I made another tab and wrote Chinese festivals in November as this seemed to reaccur quite often on peoples statements here, which brought up a site detailing Chinese festivals throughout the Year. I found out that you can buy them ready made and it seems that when you buy 15 or more you get different colours which were neon-lke blue and pink.
I later told my girlfriend and she agreed as she told me that you can now even buy them in a discount chain store in Town!
So my conclusion is that anyone can buy them now and use them any time they want. And that has lead me to think that there may be another site on the International Network saying people have spotted pink and blue lights too, so I will check it out.
February 15th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Tt was 11.00pm on saturday 13 february 2010. We were driving when we saw a bright orange light with a red glow moving slowly across the sky with no sound. We slowed down and watched it for nealry a minute and then suddenly it disappeared.
March 8th, 2010 at 2:10 am
i am a security guard that works nights. i have seen these lights 4 5 times before, corby, finedon, northampton.
While at work in corby i saw one orange light traverling way to low to be an aircraft or anything else anyone can possibly think of ‘it wasn’t’. After watching it for 5 mins coming straight towards me it turned a sharp left right above the a45, then another one came from the same direction as the other and also turned a sharp left exactly where the 1st one turned then they carried on heading above wierd????
When i first saw these lights i also thought it was i chinese lantern, but i know what they look like in the sky snd it was not a chinese lantern! they changed speed direction height!!!! what the fxxx