Posted: December 13, 2009

Location of Sighting: Runcorn, Cheshire
Date of Sighting: December 12th 2009
Time: 10.45pm

Witness Statement: My son and I were looking at Orion, when we noticed a very large, what we originally thought was a star. When we looked at it through binoculars it was a large round orange ball. There was a slight mist but I could still make the ball out quite clearly. This ball sat in the south eastern sky just above a TV aerial, which I used as a marker and stood in the same spot throughout. This happened for about 15 minutes and my son and I (who is 7) were discussing that it may not be a planet but a ufo and we used a torch to flash at it a few times, when the ball just disappeared in to thin air in the blink of an eye.

I did keep quiet calm so as not to panic my son, but I was quite chuffed that I may have seen a ufo. It was most definitely not a chinese lantern, much to large and totally still in the one spot for so long, being a very cold night the heat would have made a lantern rise high this stayed at 30 degrees to us for the whole time.