Stanley, County Durham, NE England, 26.12.09
Time: 20.50
Location: above Stanley County Durham
Saw 4 orange balls of light, in a loose formation, two at the front two at the back. They were just below the cloud ceiling.
The two at the rear appeared to be further apart and they went into the clouds, dropped back out, then went back into the clouds.
The front two were in a much neater line and moved more as one.
The lower orb, rose up vertically and was then obscured by the higher orb, it then dropped down again, rose up into the cloud and didn't come back down.
The brighter, final orb, carried on it's journey north for a few seconds more then it too went into the cloud.
My wife witnessed this too and we are both at a loss to explain what it was.
We are in the flightpath of aircraft heading north to Newcastle Airport, but these had no strobes flashing.
They were too slow and too small to be passenger aircraft, and the their track to the clouds was vertical.
We live in a small village and the only noise was ambient to the village.
We had a fair covering of snow and have minimal street lighting.
I checked the wind speed and direction in case it was something like balloons, but they were flying against the wind which was coming from the west. Speed was 5mph and these were much faster than that.
Matty
