There were eerie goings on in the skies above Fishponds on Saturday night, according to residents who spotted a series of flashing orange lights.

A number of people in the area reported the presence of more than a dozen bright orange lights in the sky at 9.30pm.

According to witnesses, the lights appeared to come from the centre of the city, then hovered above Fishponds before disappearing.

Among the residents who saw the lights were Anne Rowe and her family.

Mrs Rowe, 42, said: "I don't know what they were but they came from town about five at a time, flashed on and off and then went.

"It went on for about half an hour. I've never seen anything like it before in my life. They were very high up, I don't think they were aircraft. It was really weird. About 100 people at a party next door saw them too.

"I've never dismissed UFOs. We've always said we think there's something else out there, and now this has made me more of a believer."

Tony Wyatt, 39, also lives in Fishponds and filmed the lights movements on a mobile phone.

He said: "I can't explain it, I didn't believe in UFOs until Saturday night. My wife thought it was shooting stars at first but they were far from it.

"I think they came from the Wells direction. I rang my brother in Bishopsworth but he couldn't see them.

"I've not heard anything to explain what they might be."

The Post also received reports of residents in Barton Hill and Westbury-on-Trym seeing multi-coloured lights in the sky at around the same time.

This is not the first time Fishponds has been the subject of spooky speculation.

There were reports of a "suspicious helicopter-shaped object" with gold and red lighting on it, flying over the area during an evening in August 2000.

It was one of a number of UFO sightings in Avon and Somerset, logged by the Ministry Of Defence and revealed last year after a request under the Freedom Of Information Act.

Clevedon, Weston-super-Mare and Henbury were other favourite tourist destinations for our intergalactic friends.