Posted: April 12, 2010

Location of Sighting: Southend-on-Sea, Shoebury
Date of Sighting: April 10th
Time: 9pm

Witness Statement: I was in my back garden, facing south and to the left I saw a very bright ruby red coloured light. So bright it made me squint. The light was approximately 100m off the ground, and 200m in the distance. My wife was in the kitchen, I called her. She came out and was shocked at what we were seeing. The first thing she said was there's no sound. Completely silent. The light began to move from east to west. I ran to the bottom of the garden to get a better look as the lights from inside my house were making it harder to see. As I got to the end of the garden I saw the object surrounding the bright light. I can only describe it as a circle around the bright light with 5 long spikes top and bottom. It then faded very slowly, but before completely going out it sped off at an incredible speed in a south westerly direction.

I cannot emphasis how bright this light was, almost welding brightness. We thought about it but no explanation can be found. I would estimate the size of the light at least 10m diameter, the surrounding object possibly 20 to 30 meters diameter. If anyone else saw this please let me know.