Posted: July 17, 2009

Date of Sighting: 4th July 2009
Time: 10.40pm

Witness Statement: Outside having a cig with brother-n-law when we saw what looked like a very bright orange light in the sky off to the south (a few miles away). At first thought it was a helicopter with search light shinning in our direction but soon realised that it wouldn't of been anywhere near the size and it would of had a white light not orange. It then started to move at speed towards us (faster than a plane as we see these all the time over the house), it was completely silent. I went and got my binoculars and 4 other family members. We all witnessed the light stopping right above us just below the height of the clouds . We used the binoculars but couldn't make out any features except for a fiery orange globe shape. After about a minute it started to move off slowly increasing in height until it disappeared from view heading North.

We know it was quite big as when viewed through the binoculars it was larger than a plane viewed at a similar altitude. Total viewing duration approx 5-10 mins. Can anyone provide an explanation or did any one else witness this?