Name: NS'
City: Mansfield
Date: 11/10/08 19.36
Location: Mansfield
Message: My son, who was walking to a local fair, rang me and asked me to look outside at two strange orange lights in the sky. I managed to catch a glimpse of one as it seemed to disappear behind clouds. A couple of moments later, we noticed a much larger bright white object coming from the same direction as the previous ones. I would describe it as the same as a landing light on a plane, very bright. It flew in a perfect straight line and it was travelling very fast at first, it then slowed down considerably and changed colour to orange. After probably a minute or so, that also appeared to go behind clouds. I would guess it's flight to be SSW to NNE. I have looked at local websites and newspapers to see if these have been reported anywhere, to no avail. However, I note that a lady has posted a report on your website and describes a similar object, spotted in Portsmouth some 15 minutes earlier. Could these be related? My daughter and I took 11 photo's between us on our phones, they're very poor quality and have no reference points on them except for the time and date. I have tried to find out what these lights were and the only thing I can come up with is they may be debris from a Near Earth Object called 2008tz, which made a close pass to Earth on 11/10/08