Posted: January 30, 2010

Location of Sighting: Edinburgh
Date of Sighting: 29/01/2010
Time: 10pm

Witness Statement: We live in Abbeyhill, north-east Edinburgh. Tonight at 10pm I was looking out of an upstairs window at the moon thinking it was almost full when I suddenly noticed a very large, lantern shaped bright orange/golden object hovering in the sky. I'm not a UFOer but I couldn't work out what it was and had never seen anything like this before. It definitely wasn't a plane (I've seen plenty of them out that window and it looked totally different, no flashing lights, different shape, etc). I know what the New Year lanterns look like as we were with friends at New Year and saw loads of them being let off at the Meadows, this was much bigger and very different in intensity of light.

I went downstairs to get my partner, when he saw it it had got much smaller but he also said he hadn't seen anything like it. After about 5 minutes it gradually got much smaller then disappeared.