2 Large Orange Balls Of Light Over Collingham Nottinghamshire England UK

 

Date:  July 12, 2012

Time:  9:43 p.m.

 

Good Evening, I just saw your email address on World UFOs website and wanted to report a sighting.

I live in Collingham, Near Newark in the county  Nottinghamshire, England. At 21:43 British Summer Time (This evening 12th July) I saw in the eastern sky 2 large orange balls of light, orbs. These lights at first I thought to be reflections from a street light, until I actually realized they were very slowly moving through the sky from west to east.

 

These two orbs appeared to be a long way away, but were still large in the sky. They were definitely not lanterns. The weather conditions here have been blanket cloud for days. These things were clearly beneath the clouds.

 

I have checked space weather and local weather and cannot find any logical explanation for the sightings.

My first thought was "weird coloured stars", but on having that thought I immediately knew it was incorrect, as these things were way too big to be stars. They were illuminated orange and had quite a glow to them.

 

They were not flashing, and had no "indication" lights on them like an airplane would. These things had no real structure, and were just 2 balls of light.I am a very amateur astronomer, but I know enough about the sky and planets to know that these were not an astronomical appearance - these things were in the atmosphere above my local area.

They were flying side by side, a small distance apart. The pair were heading east, but the left hand one of the pair was moving at a very slight angle towards the right hand orb.

These orbs disappeared extremely slowly behind a rooftop, so I went out into the street to watch them through a gap between buildings. In around 15 seconds, these things had completely vanished without a trace. I could see enough ground and horizon to know they had not fallen below my line of sight. They had just disappeared.

2 friends also witnessed this separately to me. They were 2 miles away to the west down a country lane and spotted the orbs, and the other witnesses raced 2 miles in their vehicle to track these things as they headed east.

 

By the time they reached where I was standing, the orbs had vanished. My friends were totally amazed by what they had seen - a gentleman in the car is the biggest skeptic of the paranormal I have ever known, yet he was totally lost for words and unable to explain these things.

 

Also, maybe by coincidence, while these things were in the sky I was attempting to telephone someone to tell them to look. My cell phone always has full 3G high speed network coverage in this area, indoors and out. I had full signal during this event, yet could not make any telephone calls, not to any number (I tried many, and my phone remained with full service for the duration).

 

My telephone bought up the screen to say it was "dialing" the call, but just stayed on this screen and never attempted to make the connection. I use a brand new smartphone that is 100% trouble free and I know the phone handset was not to blame.  

 

It was as if these things were stopping my telephone from connecting a call. It wouldn't send SMS either. Within 10 minutes of these things disappearing, my telephone resumed connection calls. There was no indication of my telephone losing network or signal at any time, it remained full.

 

I was unable to get pictures, but these things were similar looking to the photos on the internet when searching for orange lights in the sky. Thanks.

 

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Lights Around A Large Orange Ball Over Mansfield Nottinghamshire UK

Date: December 15, 2010

Time: Approx: 10:15 p.m.

Hi there I saw something similar to this last night.

My postcode is (removed), I looked online last night and this morning for any similar sightings and found yours.

I was watching TV around 10:15pm and saw a large orange ball shining through my curtains. Funny enough I thought the outside lamp post had decided to float off. I opened the curtain and saw what looked like a large orange ball that at first I thought was a helicopter in flames.

It was pretty close, but moved in the sky really quickly. After watching it for around 5 seconds it looked like the ball pattern was changing and I’m sure I saw some other lights around the orange glow.
The weirdest thing was that it just stopped in mid flight and sort of floated in the distance without moving.

Then it kind of faded out and completely vanished, I saw nothing whatsoever in the sky not even an outline of anything.

Very very odd !

I have heard there have been quite a few sightings in the last few years around the Mansfield area.

I looked on the local news today and there was nothing about crashes.

Let me know if you have any new info as I found this fascinating!

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Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire England Seven Orange Lights

Posted: April 13, 2009

Date: March 21, 2009
Time: Approx: 9.30 p.m.

Number of witnesses: 4
Number of objects: 7
Shape of objects: Orange lights
Weather Conditions: Some cloud, but dry. Had been a warm day.

Description: We were driving home from Ravenshead to M******** Rd Nottingham, along Longdale Lane, when we saw 7 orange lights in the sky to the right. Two of the lights went closer to the other 3 to form a W shape. They disappeared into/above the clouds

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Newark, Nottinghamshire, England Object Was On Fire

Posted: April 13, 2009

Date: March 20, 2009
Time: 21:30

Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Triangle.
Weather Conditions: Calm.

Description: Saw object in sky coming towards Muskham round about and thought that's strange as object was on fire. Got out car on Muskham Road and watched it travel towards the factory. It raised up and went into the steam of the chimney on factory. No noise from object.

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Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England UK Two Ball Of Orange Light

Posted: January 2, 2009

Date: December 24, 2008
Time: 6:15 p.m.

Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 2
Shape of objects: Circular, slightly flickering on the top.
Weather Conditions: Clear sky.

Description: 2 orange balls high in the sky. They made no sound. One of then started to move higher in the sky. No other lights around. Viewed for around a couple of minutes.

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Huthwaite, Sutton-In-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England Diamond Shaped UFO

Posted: December 28, 2008

Date: December 15, 2008
Time: Approx: 11:00 p.m.

Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Diamond.
Weather Conditions: Clear, frosty.

Description: Whilst walking my dog, I noticed what I thought was the Notts police force Helicopter over a park near me (Brierly Park, Huthwaite). Being nosey as I am, I waited around to see what they were up to, and noticed there was no sound, which is very unusual for the Helicopter. I could see one blinding white light, which I assumed was the search light. However, this light began to come towards me, so I waited around for about 10 minutes, for it to cover what looked like a few hundred yards of sky. As it got quite close, I could see it was a diamond shaped craft, with a bright white light at the front, red and green on each wing point, and another white light at the back, albeit not as bright as the front one. The craft made very little noise, and only appeared to be a few hundred feet above me. I could clearly see the silvery coloured undercarriage. Another point of note, is the craft was flying at almost walking pace.

I tried to capture the vid on my mobile, but the quality is too poor to see properly.

The craft then continued in a southerly direction, more or less parallel to the motorway between J29 and J28.

My wife also witnessed this as it fly away from us.

Strange. Original thought are big black diamond thingies.

Anyone else witness this at all ? Thanks.

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Warsop, Nottinghamshire, England Unknown Object

Posted: November 19, 2008

Date: October 23rd/24, 2008
Time: 7:00 p.m.

Witnesses: 2
Subject: Glowing balls in the sky over Warsop on Thu and Fri 23/24th October 2008

My father recently told me of an odd sighting he made. He was taking the dog for a walk around 7pm on Friday 24th October, when he saw in the sky a, 'ball that flickered like a flame'. He was near the junction of Southgate Road and Meden Avenue, Warsop, looking roughly south, when he said he saw he object moving in the direction of Edwinstowe. It was only a couple of hundred feet up yet moved silently and left no smoke trail, but conversely it travelled too quickly to be a balloon or any similar object. Approximately an hour later when he was back at home, power was suddenly cut to all the appliances in the house, yet every light remained working.

On checking the breakers in the garage he expected to find that a minor one had been thrown, but oddly it was the master switch that had flicked to the off position. This was unusual as this action should have cut all power to the house, yet as mentioned the lights had all stayed on. When he subsequently repositioned the master switch and checked them, all the appliances in the house functioned normally, thus the reason why the circuit was tripped remains unknown (obviously it should only flick off in the event of a fault occurring).

He mentioned all of the above to me in an unrelated phone call that I made to him that same night, and I was tempted to accept it as "just one of those things" until it was independently verified by his next door neighbor. On the Saturday of that same week I again phoned my parents' house and my father told me that earlier that day my mother had gone round to see the next door neighbors. Of the couple who live there only the wife had been in, and during their conversation she remarked that on the Thursday her husband had been out walking his dog around 8pm when he had seen a glowing ball in the sky over the Meden School playing field. Later that same night when he had been at home, the electricity to his kitchen likewise failed, yet it remained on in all the other rooms of their house. When he therefore went to check their breakers he, too, found that the master switch had been thrown, which once more should have cut all power, yet clearly this did not occur.

I must emphasize that although they live next to one another, my father had no contact with either of the next door neighbors prior to his own sighting. Furthermore, having seen your site and reports of previous local sightings (e.g. http://www.chad.co.uk/shirebrook/39Balls-of-fire39-UFOs-caught.3672816.jp ), my father has said that the object shown in the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YuUNoFjYd0 (see below) is identical to that which he saw. We were thus wondering if you had been made aware of any other recent reports, and if you had any theories or explanations for the phenomena?

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Sutton-In-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England A Flat Silver Object

Posted: September 28, 2008

Date: August 31, 2008
Time: 12:30 p.m.

Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Square flat around 10ft x 8ft.
Weather Conditions: Calm no wind.

Description: I noticed a square very flat object silver on one side black on the other side moving through the air at about 20 feet up. It was gliding along and turning as it did so, there was no noise it travelled across my path then rose higher into the air and changed direction [going away from me now] as it got to its highest point it stopped dead, spun round, picked up speed and shot off into the distance and out of sight.

TV/Radio: Not reported that I know of.

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Kirkby In Ashfield/Nottinghamshire, England Spherical UFO

Posted: June 22, 2008

Date: June 20, 2008
Time: Approx: 11.15-11.30 p.m.

Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Spherical.
Weather Conditions: Mostly a clear night at this time, with a very small amount of cloud.

Description: My mum and I were heading home by car from a concert in Sherwood Forest on Friday evening, heading towards junction 27 of the M1 on the stretch of road from West Notts Technical College in Kirkby in Ashfield in Nottinghamshire.

As passenger I was looking out of the left side window to the south towards Ravenshead and noticed how amazing the full moon (or as near as dammit full moon) looked, it was quite low on the horizon and quite yellowy looking, I'm guessing with the sun only having just gone down a couple of hours previously. Also visible near the moon if I remember rightly was what I believe to be either the pole star or possibly Venus it was brighter and considerably larger than any other star I could see.

Now the exciting bit. A minute or two down the road, where there are no road lights or housing, and very little light pollution, I noticed a huge illuminated spherical object over woodland towards the south just a little lower than the moon and the pole star on the horizon.

This thing was massive, I would say around a quarter of the size of the moon in the night sky. It didn't appear to move at all and just hung there in the sky maybe about 3 or 4 miles to the south I would suggest somewhere over towards the Ravenshead area of Nottinghamshire. My mum managed to catch sight of it also. The strange thing was how the object went out of sight, it gradually dimmed over a period of a few seconds almost as if somebody had used
a dimmer switch on it. To the right of the object within a half mile distance, there was a static red flashing light which I'm guessing was the avionics lights on a helicopter.

As we continued to drive along trees and bushes along the roadside obscured the view to the south, and we didn't really see anything else, other than I noticed a streak of light coming out of the 11'o clock position of the moon a little further down the road in between a gap in the bushes/trees which looked a bit curious.

Having arrived back at my mums house in Brinsley a few miles to the west of J27 of the M1 maybe about 10 minutes later, I went to let her dogs out on the back and see if I could see anything else exciting happening as it was such a clear night. There is no light pollution to the back of where my mum lives as its fields and woodland, and there is very little noise pollution at that time of night other than the odd vehicle passing on the front.

Within a minute of having been outside I noticed yet another glowing ball of light (similar size again I would suggest) this time moving directly overhead in a west to east direction near the constellation of the plough. We see a lot of commercial airline traffic above her house, and I would suggest it was at a similar height to commercial airliners (say 30,000 feet), but this thing was moving in a west to east direction and not in a south to north direction which we usually
see over the house, and made no sound, before, during or after it passed over, and normally you can hear the sound of commercial jets passing over very clearly. This thing was far bigger than any aeroplane at that height, like I say it was about a quarter of the size of the moon in the sky. It did however move at around the same speed as an aeroplane. Once again within a few seconds of having sighted the object, just like the previous one we'd witnessed, it gradually dimmed out again in the clear night sky, there were next to no clouds, and no flashing avionics lights on the object.

Would love to hear if anyone else saw any thing remotely similar on that night.

Hope that helps, fascinating website by the way!

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