Does this orange ball of light appear about 07:00 in the east and disappear about 19:30 in the west?

If this is the case I may well have seen it several times myself – but not so often recently as it appears to have been obscured by forbidding grey masses.

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Having a wild guess as from your description it appears to be slightly larger than the average star, could you be looking at Jupiter?

At the moment, it appears quite low in the sky towards the south.

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on saturday evening at approx 10pm over shrewsbury, myself and my partner both witnessed a strange light at high altitude moving from west to east.
it was approx 10-15000ft altitude and was bright white and was considerably larger than the stars that were clearly visible that evening. it was not a satelite as it was too big, and it was not the international space station as its trajectory was not over the uk at that time.
what ever it was it moved quickly and then disappeared as if it was climbing higher.
this ties in with these other sightings in the area over the weekend.
http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunday-night/video/-/watch/13047668/

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I like grapes!!

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I am from British Columbia Canada, and I saw what I thought was a satillite moving across the sky, but then I thought that it was a little too low to be a satillite. I later found out that it was a meteor. Tonight I just saw the same thing again.and it disapeared after a few minutes,just like the other night.

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On Thursday 10th September 2009 at 2055 my partner saw some lights in the sky above Shrewsbury whilst letting our dog into the garden.
The first was a bright white light moving South to North over the west edge of Shrewsbury. It made no noise and was traveling at a similar speed to a Hellicoptor traveling across the sky.
As this light passed out of sight above the roof line of the house next door she turned around, looked up and noticed two large red lights at some distance apart traveling West to East above Sundorne at low altitude. The Red lights were as she describes ‘very red with well defined, perfect edges’. She watched these red lights move across the sky for nearly 1 minute when she suddenly heard a loud, very low vibrating, growling noise that
crackled comming from the direction the lights had just come from. She describes it like being stood in front of a large bass speaker.
She watched the lights until they went out of sight and called me immideatly at work.
I didn’t think much of it until I read your article about other sighting. Very strange!!

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I’ve been to quite a few weddings where as night sets in, Chinese Lanterns are let off. A lot of these ‘sightings’ seem to fall on a Saturday between 7pm and 10pm.

May be a connection?

As we become more aware of these ‘paranormal activities’ most of us will find our imaginations putting 2 and 2 together and making 5!!

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What utter rubbish. It never ceases to believe me how gullible people sone people can be. The lights are clearly chinese lanterns or of other earthly origin. Why would an alien go to such lengths to fly so high so as to be illusive and secretive but then stick a big orange light on the bottom of their spacecraft?

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I AGREE WITH JAMES THERE ARE TO MANY SITINGS BY DIFFERENT PEOPLE INCLUDING MILITARY

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I’m sorry but there is no such thing as UFO’S and if there is where is the factually proof come on satellite’s are looking skyward 24/7 we’ve landed craft on mars and no sign. No clear vivid pictures to prove alien beings or UFO’S..

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People who don’t believe in UFO’s and ghosts/spirits etc are basically small minded. You cannot say that nothing other than us on planet earth exists because the answer is not known. Humans haven’t explored every planet and galaxy to find out and until we do there will always be a possibility that we are not alone. There is no proof at all that God or Jesus and the whole story of the bible exists, yet how many million people believe in that? I don’t but if people want to believe in it that’s great. Who’s to say I’m right and they’re wrong, some new information may be found and it might prove that did all happen. Open your minds and do some research, find out why so many people DO believe that other beings and crafts exsist or get 100% proof that they don’t, then explain to believers why they are wrong.

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its just those chines lanterns, everye one has them these days its a fad

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Re the experience reported by Heather Small: The USA have a very fast aircraft code-named Aurora which is powered by a pulsed detonation engine. Several years ago I heard a sequence of explosions from the sky, consistent with the sound that this aircraft is reported to make. It flies so high that it cannot be seen with the naked eye, and by the time you’ve got binoculars it is long gone. The one I heard was travelling so quickly that all I heard were about six detonations before it was gone. The experience was so unusual that I searched the web for ‘pulsed detonation engine’ to try and find out what it was. This is the best explanation I can think of Heather Small’s experience.
With regard to orange lights, if these are moving at the same speed and in the same direction as the prevailing wind, then ‘Chinese Lanterns’ might be a reasonable first guess. I haven’t seen these so I can’t speculate. However, from what I’ve heard, although these Lanterns are quite visible, if they were very bright indeed, I would look for another explanation. One of the things often overlooked is plasma (ball-lightening is a form of this) which can appear suddenly and behave oddly.

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