Crowds of people gathered in Balham and Tooting (South London) last week to watch two sets of orange lights fly in formation across the night sky.
The lights were seen shortly before midnight on Friday (4th August). Four lights were seen moving across the night sky before disappearing up into the sky.
Shortly after that another set of four lights appeared and did the same thing. Witnesses said the lights moved silently, they were making no noise at all.
Aliens? UFOs? Or just Lanterns?
Decide for yourself, read the full article: Did aliens visit Balham and Tooting?
June 1st, 2007 at 2:31 pm
axminster, devon
1st night: 22:15 2nd night: 23:45
last week (23 - 24 may 2007) for two nights in a row 6 orange silent balls of light that seemed to spin on their own axis, flew from the north and dissapearded into space in the south east of our town. the 1st night they flew in a line following each other, while the 2nd night 2 of them stayed behind just hoovering for a good ten minutes befor shifting. the 2nd night was strange because i was sat inside watching tv, and the thing that made me look out the window was a buzzing in my earhole.
June 5th, 2007 at 2:02 am
June 01, Silent orange ball of light seen hovering for several minutes over Lansing Michigan, before slowely rising back into space.
July 9th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
At about 7.15pm today - 9 July 07 - I saw three bright lights very high in the sky whilst walking on Wandsworth Common. They gradually (over a ten to fifteen minute period) appeared to fade and grew more distant. Did anyone else spot them? Anyone know what they were?
July 11th, 2007 at 7:25 am
Ronnie / Daniel / Sarah, thanks for your comments.
It appears that a lot of people are seeing strange lights all over the UK in the last 12 months. I would be very interested to hear from anybody else who has seen anything similar.
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July 24th, 2007 at 2:16 am
check youtube website seems to be most up to date as i saw a “ufo” only yesterday 22/07/07 over london and took pics which other people have reported bearing witness to also and even managing to catch footage. My whole accont of the even is posted…
December 31st, 2007 at 6:41 pm
it was 30th of december 07 as in yesterday when i was looking out my window in foresthill south east london and noticed strange hovering lights made misty because they where berhind low clouds, it was about midnight and there was about six little balls of lights in one area of the sky for about 5 minutes then they made a shape togethjer like a upside down rainbow and they managed to do this in less than a secound then dissapeared but i could see them still hovering and playing about with each other, following each other for another minute after…then i called my brother up to show him and there was one left that had chjanged color to a more pale orange and then it dissapeared into the clouds…this is what i saw and it was strange and didnt seem normal..
March 16th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Just seen an orange ball of light which just went out after 20 seconds. Was followed by some kind of vapour /smoke trail. Manchester UK 16th March 2008
May 5th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
I saw four orange balls floating silently in a pyramid in the sky on 4th May 2008 @ 23.10.My brother and I even got some film footage on his camera phone. I could not gage the height or distance of the balls but the length of time they spent in the night sky was unlike anything I have witnessed before. I have no idea what these balls were but they were floating in the northern sky above Didsbury in Manchester, England.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:36 am
On 27th April 08 @ 23.30 we witnessed at least 12 of these orange globes in 2 lots of 6 and in some sort of row,there was no noise?they were high in the sky for about 3 or 4 minutes before slowly disappearing south over the houses.Got to admit Iv’e seen nothing like this before.
June 23rd, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Saturday 21st June I was in Dover when 3 of us saw these orange balls coming over the horizon. One would appear then another and so on. There were at least 12 or so in total in perfect formation. There was no noise and one of them at one point speeded up and caught up with the one in front. It lasted for at least 15 mins…We have racked our brains and we have no explination of what it was…HELP!
June 23rd, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Oh and this happened just after midnight
June 25th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
we saw them to over manchester on saturday june 21st 2008.
im led to believe they are large chinese sky lanterns.
made of paper with little flames/lamps in them that make them rise, hence them disappearing.
we saw the first lot that appeared to be in formation moving at a constant speed. 4 in a triangle formation with 1 in the middle.
the one in the middle went out. maybe they were all tied together?
we continued to see 3 or 4 more following the exact same path at a high speed.
30 minutes later 3 more 1 at a time at higher speed moving across the sky following the same trajectory.
None of them stopped and changed direction. The lights didnt change. just glowed bright orange with almost a halo around them.
They did appear brighter as they moved towards us then dimmer as they past by.
i can only presume they are sky lanterns which are very popular across the world.
google search them.
russ
June 25th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Thanks to everybody for all your comments (reports). It sounds like there is something weird going on which deserves investigating.
I’m just redesigning this site at the moment and will update this story and add some new ones that are also related to this subject.
Thanks again…
July 25th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Yup saw the same thing last night, we live in streatham Common at around 10.30pm the orange and what looked like fire balls moved very slowly but made sharp movements. I’am generaly a compleat sceptic but me and the misses both looked at them for around 5 mins and they disapeared over the Thames. very odd.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:57 am
On Sunday 3rd August 2008 about 15mins after midnight, my husband called out to me to come to the front door quickly, as I looked with him into the sky there were orange balls of light in the distance these were in perfect formation there were two rows of six balls and then a complete upside down triangle of three balls this pattern continued again with one ball quite a way behind the main group of balls,this single ball suddenly shot across the sky as if to catch up with the others. They moved in silence for about 4 minuites then just disappeared. We have never seen anything like this in the sky before.
August 4th, 2008 at 6:05 am
This happened in Hertfordshire 03/08/08
August 5th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
around july 2007 i was in my back garden in essex at around 2.00 am, as i looked up i saw a beam of light comming from a vehicle above my garden that was making no noise at all, it seemed to be flying towards me really fast and clumsily i ran inside and locked the door and on occasions that night i kept hearing high pitched screeching noises. then on friday 18th july at 10 oclock there was an orange light flying past my window with a smaller luminated vehicle following it, i called my dad who is a complete sceptic and he even admitted it was odd as we both watched it disapear. On the 1st of august around 11 oclock am. i looked into the sky and saw what i thought was an airoplane it was very shiney but had no lights and very small if any wings which then disappeared before my eyes and did not go behind any clouds because there was’nt any! then last night 4th august i saw a bright light that just appeared out of no where heading for my direction then dissapeared. i believe im drawn to seeing these things and just happen to be in the right place at the right time. Somthing is happening sightings are becomming not frequent but regular, still there is no support network in place and such a topic would never reach the news for fear of uproar. does any one have an educated guess as to what they want do you think it may be linked to the 2012 predictions??
Luv Anna xxx
August 6th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Just got really freaked out, last night (sunday 27th July approx 22:10 ) as i was just about to take the bin out , i caught sight of a bright orange ball in the sky,out of the kitchen window…. there were no stars out just this orange ball which , grew in size , started dancing about then disappeared, i thought i was seeing things and screamed for my husband, who caught the end of the first one, then a second one and third one appeared and did exactly the same thing….grew from a small dot, danced about then disappered. We managed to film one of them….first my husband thought it was a hot air balloon ( with no balloon or basket for people to stand in ) My husband just rang (Monday 28th July ) and asked if i read The Sun newspaper ….appparantly, it was reported that there were lots of UFO sightings over the weekend and in the paper are photos of exactly what we saw and filmed……Started off looking like the photo under Manchester heading and then looked like the photo of Goring…..
Regards Rolanda and Chris Palmier