High Strangeness
If you were, then perhaps you, like many others, saw what appeared to be three reddish lights the size of golf balls hovering in the night sky.
According to a woman who called this newspaper on Thursday, Jan. 29, the lights silently hovered "about a foot apart in a triangle" before splitting apart, then coming together and flying off.
The woman, who lives in the township's Ironia section, declined to identify herself, saying she didn't want people to think she was of unsound mind.
But, she said several people and students at the high school saw it, and heard from police that the lights had been seen elsewhere in the township.
Great-grandmother June Smith described how a crowd of amazed neighbours in Stoke Aldermoor gathered to watch bright orange lights.
Five neighbours claimed they saw what looked like a helicopter pursuing ten glowing lights in the shape of an oval.
Minutes later another eye-witness saw the same thing above another part of the city, but this time the orbs had unfolded into a straight line.
According to eyewitnesses, a UFO was seen in the sky above Novi Travnik in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Wednesday evening, Tip.ba reported.
Carl Guntrip and his 18-year-old girlfriend set out from Newtown en route to Shrewsbury cinema last week but their journey took a seemingly paranormal turn near the village of Belan.
Carl, 21, described the chilling moment which occurred on Saturday, January 24, between 8.15pm and 8.30pm.
"Something just did not seem right," said Carl. "We had just past the Horseshoes pub and were approaching Belan when we saw something on the side of the road.
However many readers believed the glowing orange balls, spotted by Maureen Withers at 7.30pm, to be Chinese paper lanterns.
And this was the explanation given by two children who launched the lights from Pannal.
He shouted to daughter Laura, 28, who recorded what they believe was a close encounter on her mobile phone while he dashed upstairs to get his camcorder.
The astonishing video he handed to the T&A shows a glowing orb - similar to the one spotted in late autumn last year and on New Year's Eve.
[T&A TV video]
A mysterious flying object was seen five times in the skies above Scarborough from early July until the end of August last year.
The sightings above the coastal town, and one above nearby Malton, were six of the UFO incidents out of 285 logged by the MoD in 2008.
The number of UFO sightings logged with the Ministry of Defence more than doubled to 285 last year, a rise described as "phenomenal" by experts. It is the highest number of sightings in 10 years.
All the incidents are included in a document released by the MoD yesterday, which details the date, time and location of the sightings, along with a brief summary of the eyewitness reports.
A gobsmacked Emma Hall, 33, of Kings Avenue, watched in terror from her living room window as a bright orange ball the size of a helicopter sped through the air.







Comment: There is always the possibility of some sightings being chinese lanterns. But it is hardly likely that they would stop, do aerial maneuvers and then fly off.
The "chinese lantern" explanation is getting as old as swamp gas and Venus.