Posted: August 6, 2009

Date of Sighting: 5th August 2009
Time: 10:00pm

Witness Statement: Hi, I'm from Cottingham, and in the past I've seen strange lights moving horizontally over the sky then disappearing quickly by zipping across the sky. However tonight on August 5th at about 10pm I saw this strange large bright orange light rise from the distance, as it caught my eye while watching television in my living room. I quickly ran to the window and dismissed the large orange light for a balloon of some sorts as it just seems to rise very quickly with a flame like colour. But very quickly it began to rise faster and then stop extremely quickly in the sky then begin moving horizontally in the sky, left and right, before stopping again and quickly speeding away, and I lost sight of it within 5-10 seconds. I went outside to see if I could see anything and there was nothing to be seen.

As I could not identify, nor have I seen any aircraft move like that, it was definitely an unidentifiable object for me.