Name: RB'
City: Hailsham
Date: 27/09/08 19.50 hrs
Location: 1000ft +?
Message: I left home (just outside Horam, East Sussex) at 1950 hrs to drive the 5 miles to Hailsham to collect my son from a friends house.

We live out in the countryside so it was dark and the road was quiet. There are no street lights. Some of the road is sheltered by trees, but as I approached Hellingly the fields open out. As the sky line opened up I could not help but see three large bright orange lights in a triangle formation to my left. They were not moving or flashing. I tried looking as I was driving, they were like nothing I have seen before.

Eventually I came to a lay by and decided to pull in and have a proper look. The lights had not moved and I could not hear any aircraft noise. At this point I noticed a fourth light which although similar to the others remained further away. After a minute or so I carried on into Hailsham town. Buildings and street lights prevented me from seeing the lights any more.As I was only popping out I had not taken my phone. When I reached the friends house I used their phone to call home to my wife to see if she could see the lights from our house. My friend can confirm this call. I waited on the line whilst my wife went outside to look. She came back a short while later. She had not seen the lights where I had described them, but as she turned to go back indoors saw four lights in a diamnod shape probably about a mile from where I saw them .

Again they were not moving, nor was there any sound. By the time I returned home ( 15 minutes) and by the time my wife had put the phone down and gone back outside the lights were also gone.

Since this date I have realised, via BBC Southern Counties that there have been similar sightings. The night was still and clear. These were not "lanterns" or helicopters. This sighting was one of those where I "knew" what I was seeing was not the usual thing you see in the sky.