Orange Light Sightings-November 2009-Volume 2
Each month we receive a large number of eye witness accounts of sightings of single and multiple red and 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" are published by month in Volumes of about 40 eye witness accounts.
We hope you enjoy reading the many graphic accounts submitted.
Chinese Lanterns or UFO-You Decide!
November 10th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Location of Sighting: wellingborough
Date of Sighting: 25/10/09
Time: 18.00
Witness Name: bruce
Witness Statement: i was at home watching tv my livingroom looks out onto my back garden. i noticed a bright orange light come into view i would say it was about 10 or 12 ft in size it was very low. ive no idea what this was. could have been a lantern it went off in to the distane.
November 10th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Location of Sighting: Goldthorpe, Rotherham
Date of Sighting: 31 october 2009
Time: 18:10
Witness Name: N.C
Witness Statement: I was stood in the garden watching some fireworks in the distance. An orange, meteor like ball of fire streaked horizontally across my vision, approx’ 100ft from the ground. As it approached a line of houses it changed direction and flew away from me diagonally towards the sky.
While heading in this direction, what I can only discribe as a “drip” of flame or light came from it followed by another. The object then carried on it’s course until It was too far in the sky to see. This was not a firework unless it was (a) remote controlled and (b) had enough fuel to propel it out of sight skyward on a dark night.
November 10th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Location of Sighting: Leith, Easter Road, Dalmeny Street
Date of Sighting: 05/11/2009
Time: 20:35
Witness Name: Aldo
Witness Statement: At 20:35 i was walking down Dalmentystreet from Leith Walk on Easter Road and thought what i saw was a firework but after about 10 seconds it didn’t explode and just kept gliding along slowly, it was bright orange and shiny and was about as low as a helicopter but there was no sound coming from it and it moved in a straight line really slowly above me for about a minute or longer.
I then saw a guy having a cig outside a pub watching it too so I knew it wasn’t just me that thought it was odd, I went into my house then realised the people across the road came out there house to watch and then it disappeared. I saw a similar thing at elm row in Leith Walk last year except there were 5 in a row moving silently and some people from the pubs and the Italian restaurant Giulianos stood an watched these at they went down London Road,it was around 2:30 am, i then got in a cab and the driver said he has been driving the streets at night for years and had never seen anything like it.
November 10th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Location of Sighting: Reservoir by Sewardstone Road
Date of Sighting: 5.11.09
Time: 10.30
Witness Name: annie
Witness Statement: 15 or so bright lights slow moving from west (over edmonton) which then formed a triangle shape and moved off to the east, followed by a single light 30 seconds later
November 10th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Location of Sighting: Redditch, Worcestershire
Date of Sighting: 5th November 2009
Time: 19:03
Witness Name: Peter
Witness Statement: I know it was Guy Fawkes night, but what I saw was not fireworks. Leaving work and approaching The Dog roundabout at the junction of the A435 and the A4189 I saw two orange lights in the sky. They looked almost like two stars, but were too large and were moving parallel to each other in an easterly direction. They glowed as if on fire, but did not fall, or rise. There was no tail and their movement was steady. I parked in carpark at The Dog and watched them suddenly move very quickly away accross the sky and disappear. I tried to get a picture, but my phone is not sensitive enough to capture in the dark. Really unusual and definately not a plane, or any other object. Their trajectory was straight and stayed parallel all the way.
November 10th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Location of Sighting: Blackburn Aberdeenshire
Date of Sighting: 5th November 2009
Time: 6pm
Witness Name: Rachel Anderson
Witness Statement: We were outside at about 6pm letting off some sparklers. We saw 13 orange lights passing by about 2 miles away. They were in groups of 2 and three. The skies were clear. There was no evidence of noise so we ruled out an aircraft. Wondered if anyone else in Aberdeenshire saw these orange lights?
November 10th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Location of Sighting: West Charleton, Kingsbridge, Devon
Date of Sighting: 5th November 2009
Time: 11pm
Witness Name: G Leonard
Witness Statement: Was having a cigarette outside on our balcony which looks over the eastuary and over to Salcombe when my mum suddenly saw this thing in the sky and said what the hell is that!? It was a orange sphere in the sky and travelled from the right. all the way over the horizon to the left of us. It was travelling really fast and seemed like it was on fire as it was flickering. It was low and going fast and finally disappeared in the distance. My mum thought it was an aeroplane or something but it wasnt slow enough and it wasnt emitting any sound and there werent any flashing lights.
November 10th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Location of Sighting: offerton stockport
Date of Sighting: 6/11/09
Time: 8.10pm
Witness Name: k wyngard
Witness Statement: glanced out of the window to see orange
orb going in the direction of marple.shouted son to come and look.went to get binoculas for closer look.it had dissapered from view. then 2 more came over together following the first one shouted wife and other kids we all watched as the 2 silently under the cloud base followed the first. then another one came over and also followed others,all totally silent.had a good look at them ,orange lights sometimes going brighter and then slightly fading in brightness.this is my second sighting of these lights logged a report a few months ago.
November 10th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Location of Sighting: carlisle
Date of Sighting: 5thNov 2009
Time: 7-15pm ish
Witness Name: tony and Jean
Witness Statement: We saw an orange sphere rise rapidly from the brampton direction.(east) with good binoculars it appeared to be rotating,it travelled in about 2minutes into the west,against the wind,over Brisco , and dissapeared gradually into the distance towards wigton..
November 10th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Location of Sighting: thornton cleveleys
Date of Sighting: 6th nov2009
Time: 2240
Witness Name: gillian cooke
Witness Statement: i was stood in my front garden saying goodbye to some visitors when we all of us witnessed a bright orange light approaching at a slow speed , seconds later a second one appeared at a higher speed both hbovered for a few seconds then just dissapeared into the night sky toally in awe of what we had just saw we were discussintg the event when a third light appeared , again slowed over a building opposite where i live and then sped off , i tel my local pol.ice to see if anyone else had reporetd any further sightings and was told no not at present x
November 10th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Location of Sighting: Eckington + Whittington Chesterfield
Date of Sighting: 5/11/09
Time: 6.45pm + 8.30pm
Witness Name: Alison Janes
Witness Statement: We were going to a firework display (+ this wasn’t a firework!) and noticed quite a large orange glow moving quite quickly across the sky, which was silent. We thought it was an aircraft but realised there were no flashing lights + the glow was just too big! i then noticed it again on the way home.
November 10th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Location of Sighting: taunton somerset
Date of Sighting: 3/11/09 5/11/09 6/11/09
Time: between 4pm-9pm
Witness Name: stuart woodgate
Witness Statement: i witnessed a bright orange light in the sky movin in different directions i could’nt identify it but have seen this on a few different occassions now.has anyone else seen the same thing?
November 10th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Location of Sighting: Rochdale road ‘ outside Fairfield hosp far entrance.
Date of Sighting: 5/11/09
Time: approx 8:45
Witness Name: Nick kirkby.
Witness Statement: saw the first object appearing rom over the houses on the right hand side of the road looking towards Bury.it was glowing brightlyseveral coulers.A second objct appeared seconds later.Both objects became duller like glowing red balls and hovered in circles than a third object appeared.
The other two objects had diisapeared and i watched the third hover into the sky towards manchester.
i got a photo of the second object and 6 second footage of the third.
I can’t explain what they where maybe they are ” Chinese Lanterns ” ‘ but iv’e never seen them before.
November 10th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Location of Sighting: Bedworth
Date of Sighting: 01/11/09
Time: 18:00
Witness Name: Craig Evans
Witness Statement: I was stood in my back garden when i saw a strange constant light moving in the sky, as it got closer it appeared to be a round shape and then as it passed overhead the light dissapeared but the round outline of the object could still be seen and it then appeared to be a round dark object. The night was clear and the object was completely quiet.
November 10th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Location of Sighting: Acomb York
Date of Sighting: 4th Nov 09
Time: aprox 9pm
Witness Name: Chriss Sinclair
Witness Statement: We saw an orange glow, like a chinese lantern or air balloon, totally silent. Difficult to judge height and speed but it crossed the horizon from one side to the other in about 10 mins travelling North over York towards Thirsk. The night sky was quite clear, we at first thought this was a helicopter but there was def no sound.
November 10th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Location of Sighting: Benfleet, Essex
Date of Sighting: 7/11/09
Time: 7.45pm
Witness Name: Jason Borley
Witness Statement: We were out watching fireworks when we see a bright orange glow flying along at high speed, it disappeared on the horizon then appeared again at exactly the same place we see it first and continued along the same path as before and disappeared, it then done the same again for the third time and disappeared out of site and did not return.
November 10th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Location of Sighting: Isleworth (right next to Twickenham Rugby Ground)
Date of Sighting: 7th November 2009
Time: 7.30pm
Witness Name: Lisa Griffiths
Witness Statement: We were all in the garden (me, my husband and 3 sons) watching fireworks when I saw what I thought was a helicopter. Not an unusual sight where we live. But as it got nearing I noticed it looked as though it was on fire. It was an orange orb travelling quite fast and firey bits dropping from it. There was no sound as it went over usand seemed lower than cloud level. We watched it disappear over the houses then my husband shouted that there was another one. It was travelling in the same direction but over to the right. After about 10 minutes I spotted another one travelling in the same direction as the first. I will admit it freaked us out a bit!
November 10th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Location of Sighting: london-n1
Date of Sighting: 7/11/09
Time: 20:00
Witness Name: Bill White
Witness Statement: Me and 2 other adults and 3 children witnessed a large orange orb which would’ve been in the area off clerkenwell or even toward west end area,it came towards islington area in an abnormal pattern(not a firework of helicopter),from our view left to right then in a jaggerdy way and left again,that lasted for about 15 seconds then it went toward north london direction and out of site in about 5 seconds! Then 10 seconds when we all lost sight the area off N1(post code) lost all power(houses and street lights),did anyone else witness the orange orb? Thank you
November 10th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Location of Sighting: northwich
Date of Sighting: 7th november
Time: 7.45
Witness Name: mrs moore
Witness Statement: was standing outside when saw 2 orange lights then an other 2 then 3 together came over us was not a plane as sum other people saw them was flying for 5mins then went 100% was not a plane as only had 1 light which is orange
November 10th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Location of Sighting: Over south Yorkshire
Date of Sighting: 07/11/2009
Time: 8pm
Witness Name: S Firth
Witness Statement: While watching fireworks we saw three bright orange glowing objects travelling from the south, at first we thought they were fireworks but then realised they were travelling too fast and were a constant orange colour. They travelled at speed heading North
November 10th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Location of Sighting: redditch
Date of Sighting: 7th novemer 2009
Time: 8 55pm
Witness Name: tony
Witness Statement: i was in my garden having a cig…my freinds girlfreind rings him and tells us to look in the sky we did and to our amazment we saw 5-7 glowing orange lights all travelling in aline silently across the sky line…these were not i repeat NOT planes i have read the other statments and it is the same as what i see
November 10th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Location of Sighting: cheshire
Date of Sighting: 07th November 2009
Time: 19:00 to 20:00
Witness Name: Garry
Witness Statement: I Also have seen and orange like orb in the sky about the size of a football it came from south-east and traved north-west this happen 3 time in about and hour we were watch the fireworks for the bedroom window when i saw it at first i thought it was a firework, it travel at a stead speed not moving up or down the second time was about 20 mins later the same position as last time but this time faster this time a recorded it on my phone, the thrid timewas about 20 mins later again i was coming back from the shop up the road and again it passed i this time closer and bigger in the sky i got back home and got my phone when back to the bedroom i was about 1 min before i got upstair i thought i had missed it but i look out of the window and it was in the same position it was when i entered my house it was still about 10 seconds and began to more again at a steady pace in a straight line untill out of site again i recorded it on my phone. This was not a chinease lantern something like that in the sky would shift direction with the wind this never flickered never moved up or down keep a straight line. very strange : S
November 10th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Location of Sighting: Woolpit suffolk
Date of Sighting: 8th November 2009
Time: 9.00pm
Witness Name: Jos Roper
Witness Statement: eight or nine bright lights travelling at high speed from SW to NE lower than plane higher than fireworks very bright yellow light unable to get any definition any one else see these ?
November 10th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Location of Sighting: walthamstow, London
Date of Sighting: 7 novemeber 2009
Time: 6.30-7:00pm
Witness Name: Laurene and Ryan Bobb-Semple and Marvin Palmer
Witness Statement: we were in the garden and i turned around and saw a solid bright light in the sky, it was moving fast and steady to the west when it got above us it went north and over our house, we ran through the house to the frotn garde4n where we watched continue north and then disappear. We went back into the garden and literally two minutes later two more appeared from the same place the last one did, they flew west, one turned north over the house like the first one and the other one continued west and disappeared. there was no noise coming from them and there were planes and fireworks going off and these lights were nothing compared to anything else in the sky.
November 10th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Location of Sighting: stechford birmingham
Date of Sighting: 07.11.2009
Time: 21.03
Witness Name: DT
Witness Statement: we seen what looked like two orange lights in the sky travelling at exactly the same speed but one in front of theother, when they got closer we realised they were not planes but bright like glowing balls of fire we thought as it was close to bonfire night it may have been emers but they travelled at exactly the same speed and did not change there brightness. we tried to capture it on phone but it would not let us. then after about ten minutes they came back over again only this time the one behind turned off in a different direction but then came back and again flew over they seemed to be to controlled to be balls of fire, star or metoerite type things it was totally bizarre
November 10th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Location of Sighting: Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Date of Sighting: 7/11.09
Time: 6:30-9:00pm
Witness Name: Mathew Leeke
Witness Statement: Whilst waiting for the bonfire display in Kenilworth tonight we saw 5 floating amber lights moving in a triangular formation with a couple hanging shortly behind. They moved slowly northwards and disapeared for a couple to return shortly afterwards and hung about over the Abbey Fields park. They were slow moving and low compared to aircraft and off the flight path and totally silent. They were noticed by many of the onlookers at the display. It seems I am not the first to see these lights recently. I have no explanation for them.
November 10th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Location of Sighting: Walkden (Worsley)
Date of Sighting: 07/11/09
Time: 8:30
Witness Name: Dave Brandwood and Dean Brandwood
Witness Statement: Me and my son left the local snooker club and my son was smoking in the car park, i was explaining about a sighting at heaton park which me and my partner had seen on bonfire night, i explained how we had seen a bright orange light in the sky going above the bonfire at heaton park, while i was explaining this my son pointed out a bright orange light above going towards Bolton, this was followed by 3 more of these bright orange lights in a perfect straight line, these lights did not leave formation, then there were 4 more which soon followed in a diamond formation which also never left formation. No sound whatsoever could be heard. We pointed it out to a man in the street and he looked at it and said “Oh my god, were not being attacked are we?” Obviously a fruitcake . We must have seen atleast 25-30 of these objects flying towards Bolton, they resembled the flame of a match but with the flame sideways. Any explanations would be welcomed.
November 11th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
I also saw this orange light last night-10 November 2009. Early evening I think it was between 17:00 and 18:00 I left the house to walk the dog. We live 4 floors up and as I shut the door behind me I saw this larger large reddish-orange light travelling slowy over Seaford head. It looked rather pretty amidst the cloud cover so I watched it for a while.
I was waiting for the sound of an aeroplane because it looked to high to be a helicopter. To my faint surprise it stopped and then just hung there for about a minute or 2. Now I was really intrigued – ha ha – I thought my first wide awake UFO! It then changed course and slowly made its way across the fields in the direction of maybe Eastbourne?
I wonder I wonder I wonder…. Shed light people!! (excuse the pun)
November 13th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
I was outside a friends house in Salcombe two weeks ago when I saw 4 flying objects one night around 9 pm, I would describe them as large, roundish with red and orangey yellow light coming from them. No sound. They were initially flying in formation however one broke away flew off to the left as though checking something out and then joined back with the others after a minute or so. I am certain they were not chinese lanterns as they were too big and as there was a high wind that night they were powered by something to be strong enough to withstand being blown off course.
The fact that one of them left the formation and then regrouped was weird anyway. I called my friend out to see them as I thought she’d never believe me otherwise.
And who says we are the only beings in the universe. This is the second time I’ve seen ufo things. Last time it was over the M4 and nearly caused an accident as a huge (and I mean the width of two tennis courts) round, lit up, flying object hovered over the motorway and after a minute launched straight up into the air and disappeared without a sound! Very eerie. I wasn’t on my own so I wasn’t hallucinating!
November 17th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
On 6th November in Jordanhill, Glasgow I was walking along a dark road and saw an orange light in the sky. I kept looking at it as a few nights previous I had noticed a similar light not far from there. It seemed to be moving but very slowly. I didn’t pay that much attention to it and started walking quickly to get a good vantage point for a nearby firework display. I had forgotten about the orange light and was watching the show on a hill for about ten minutes and then I saw the orange light or maybe a different one moving from south to north direction and it slowed down and stopped. I just assumed it was some type of aircraft but there was no noise from it. I’m not that interested in UFO’s so it wasn’t until I read my local newspaper which I picked up yesterday that I thought more about what I saw. There were several sightings around that date of orange lights in the sky close to where I saw those ones.See http://www.milngavieherald.co.uk/bearsdennews/Can-you-solve-the-mystery.5819674.jp
November 17th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Location of Sighting: Sale, Manchester
Date of Sighting: 05/11/09
Time: 18:30
Witness Name: Simon Boardman
Witness Statement: Orange fiery sphere moving slowly below the deep low clouds. Observed it and shone my lazer light at it to see if there would be any response from it but there was none. It faded away before my eyes after about three minutes. It may well have been a chineese lantern, but if it was it was quite a substantial size.
November 17th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Location of Sighting: Wetherby West Yorkshire
Date of Sighting: 7th November 2009
Time: 10.55pm
Witness Name: John Dunlop
Witness Statement: Whilst entering our house we noticed a bright (large) red light in the sky moving at a constant speed with no audible sound. it appeared to be at a height that an aircraft would fly. It was moving in a SE to NE direction It did not flash or pulse and was unlike any light I have seen in the sky. After about 20 seconds it disappeared.It was also witnessed by my wife and two of our friends. Two of the party had not partaken of any alcohol during the evening!
November 17th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Location of Sighting: Accrington, Lancashire
Date of Sighting: 7th November
Time: 11:15pm
Witness Name: Jon Gleave
Witness Statement: I saw 15-20 orange lights high up in the sky moving south to north all within the space of 10 mins through my french windows (back of house). Some of these objects lasted 2-3 mins in the sky and some moved together and then apart. Whilst having a cigarette outside the last two nights I saw 2-3 of these orange lights, moving the same speed as airplanes, thought it was a little weird but not too mention as a ‘big deal’ but now know definitely the same as what I saw tonight. I went outside tonight to the front of the house and there was no noise coming from the sky, but the orange lights were in 2-3 formations. Definitely not fireworks (too high in the sky) and not planes… 15-20 of them all coming from the same direction – no noise and moving close together then apart. I’ve read on this site that there’s been a lot of activity of these sightings over the last few nights… unusually around bonfire night, but fireworks do not fly so high up, move around and last for a few mins. I cannot explain what I saw, but in 39 years I have not seen anything like this!
November 17th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Location of Sighting: Leicester
Date of Sighting: 7/10/09
Time: 21:00
Witness Name: Amanda Holden
Witness Statement: i was walking when i looked up in the sky and saw something floating, it was just about bigger then a beach ball. the object then lit up and started to rise and drift away frim where i was standing, then 5 minutes later the object dissapeared
November 17th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Your Name andrea blount
Message i saw a orange ball moving in the direction of my home it stopped and a smaller ball seemed to break away from the large one then gone at great speed the larger suddenly vanished in a flash this was no aeroplane no lantern or helecopter every thing was silient lanterns dont have that speed date 5 11 09
November 17th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Location of Sighting: scunthorpe ,
Date of Sighting: 08 11 09
Time: 7.30pm
Witness Name: sean
Witness Statement: opposite side of the raod to the dolphin pub on messingham road 3 orange lights moving slowly looking west and travelling north . one even stopped for a few seconds hovering stationery ,,definately not helicopters … i see loads in the scunthorpe sky maybe some could be satellites but do satellites stop and then move along again?
November 17th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Location of Sighting: Llanfechell, Anglesey
Date of Sighting: 07/11/09
Time: 21.35
Witness Name: Price
Witness Statement: Looking through our kitchen window I noticed a bright orange “ball” in the sky. I shouted my wife and kids to see, then suddenly another brighter, larger one appeared approx 45degrees below the other. Looking through binoculars they looked as if they were balls of fire. The first ball became very still, while the other gradually made a 45degree incline towards it. They became parallell to eachother and eventually faded away slowly together. It lasted approx 2-3mins. Never seen anything like it before
November 17th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Location of Sighting: Royston
Date of Sighting: 07 November 2009
Time: 7.50 to 8pm
Witness Name: Philip Darke
Witness Statement: My wife and I were in our garden in Melbourn Rd watching the end of a firework display I think at Icknield walk school we saw an orange light lower than normal plane height moving steadily and quite fast in a North Westerly direction. There were no flashing lights and no sounds but my wife thought she saw “sparks” coming off it. We watched it for about 30 seconds until it went behind houses.
November 28th, 2009 at 10:58 am
we were driving fron a13 towards a127 down pound lane when my wife noticed two bright orange lights. We turned into a farm and on reaching our stables our stable manager shouted to us to look.. she had already seen 6 lights in formation then we saw another 3 seperate. these were travelling at great speed with no sound ( we could hear areoplanes and the distant noise of the road also a helicoper passed over) these lights climbed into the air towards southend and slowly got smaller untill they disapeared. afer a few minuets more came pass a total of 17 in all, the last one dissapering in front of us. it was a clear night we could see stars the movement of aeroplanes yet this last light just went.. after approx 5 mins the was a bright flash witnessed by our manager.
November 29th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
last night at approx 10.40pm we saw 6 lights moving in formation to the east – having worked for an airline for 23 years I know what a plane looks like and planes do not take off 6 at a time from one runway they all move off at in formation with one particular moving at great speed in the opposite direction to the others. the lights were bright orange moving from a square formation to an arc shape then changing position erratically – please did anyone else see what we did?
December 6th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
My boyfriend just called me down at 10:20 this evening to watch a bright orange & red light (it looked like 2 orange lights and one red in a triangle formation) glowing very brightly like flame. It went in a steady path to the north of us from roughly west to east direction, and before it went out of view it seemed to zig zag a little. It made no sound, and it took about 3 or 4 minutes to go out of sight. We live in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
A couple of weeks ago his brother saw several of the same lights moving in random directions before disappearing into the night sky, and he also lives in this area.
December 22nd, 2009 at 8:59 pm
Southend on sea
Sighting: 21.12.2009
About 9pm.
Sighted over Southend. Came from London Road direction, moved over Victoria Avenue, headed towards Prittlewell Station until it faded away.
Bright Red light, Spikey Star shape around it, I took a photo, it looks like a mini Mars/Sun, like a ball of fire, and the star shape looks like red dust (best way I can describe it..) In my photo – 3 small balls ( 2 yellow, 1 red) /circles underneath it, when you zoom in they have patterns on them) Can I upload my picture here? It definitely wasn’t a plane, I saw one later and it wasn’t anything like one.. Very strange, never seen anything like it before, any other sightings?
December 25th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Location of Sighting: Basingstoke
Date of Sighting: 25 December 2009
Time: 8pm to 8.30pm
Witness Statement: Walking home from g/f’s parents house, we see a large orange ‘flame’ in the sky moving very fast from west to east. It looked almost like an incredibly large exhaust flame on a jet engine, only there was no noise. We then saw either the same thing, or multiples, up to 4 times go across the sky with spaces of roughly 3-4 minutes between. Each pass being slightly further north. No flashing lights, it was just what looked like a ‘flame’ in that it flickered however it looked like this from every viewed angle as it passed.
Movement was very much linear with no apparrant elevation changes easily viewable.
Light was roughly 3-4times the size of the brightest star in the sky.
December 28th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Christmas evening 2009 at about 7pm, looked out of lounge window and saw a bright orange light in the sky, went outside to see it and it travelled from east to west, over the South Chard (Somerset) area, it went towards an area known as Windwhistle. It was like a large ball of flame, but it made no noise, we thought hot air balloon, but it was very dark, and a hot air balloon, you hear the sound of the gas firing the heat into the balloon,it eventually went out of site after it had travelled about a couple of miles towardst the west. Not sure if the flame died out or if it just was too far out of site to see.
We were shopping in Taunton on Monday 28th december 2009, only a few days after first sighting, and we saw the same flame travelling over Taunton at about 5pm. as we were in the car coming out of Taunton we were not able to see which direction it was going, but it was definately the same as we saw on Xmas night.
December 30th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
hi, i was driving home along the M27 towards southampton with my partner on 25th december it was between 8.30 and 9pm and we both saw a really bright orange sphere flying very fast through the sky. it was not a palne or anything like that. it just looked like a ball of flames moving so fast, it went from being ahead of us, flew over us and seemed to slow or stop and sort of flicker from really bright to quite dim. for about 4-5 minutes it was in sight. was online trying to find out whether it was a commit but after reading the rest of the comments on here id have to say i definatly do not think it was a commit.
December 30th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
My brother and i were travelling through Nerston in East Kilbride when we noticed a big orange light,it was like a ball shape, it was moving and clearly wasn’t an aeroplane. It was on the 20th or 21st November, we seen it for around 2 minutes then we lost it. Then in the same street on 26th December my friend and I seen three smaller orange lights, again they were round and were similar to the Orion in terms of position.