Posted: January 14, 2010
Location of Sighting: A682 Hellifield/Long Preston, Yorks
Date of Sighting: 24 December 2009
Time: 5.45pm

Witness Statement: We were driving along and saw 2 pale orange spheres about 500ft up in the sky coming from a North Easterly direction and traveling in a South Westerly direction. Our first thoughts were that they were too near together to be 2 aircraft, but too far apart to be one. We stopped the car and watched them. The one on the right then swung round in an arch coming round under the one on the left and rose to merge with it. The instant they merged they disappeared (like someone switching off a light). The sky was clear - was no cloud and no noise.

We had not started celebrating Christmas and were both sober!