[Noel Kelly]

Bit of a strange one here lads....
Was coming home from work this evening on the A96. Between the Blackburn roundabouts I noticed 2 very bright orange lights moving across the sky.
Keeping one eye on the road and one eye on the lights I quickly decided these were unlike anything I had ever seen before so pulled over at the first safe place.
Got out to have a better look and watched them travel until they started to blink and blur eventually fading from sight.
Strange I thought what the hell were those....
Then more appeared, another two on the same path and seemed to be at the same height. Watched these until they faded away in the same area as the first ones which was high in the sky.
Then more appeared.....this went on for 5 maybe ten minutes all coming from the same direction, sometimes 1, 2 or 3 at a time.
I had got on the phone to friends in Blackburn who went outside, saw them and are as baffled as I am. My better half couldn't see anything from Kintore.   

It was about 6.45 they were coming from the NW, very bright orange lights glowing steadily. Definitely not aeroplanes or helicopters and moving two quickly to be something carried on the wind. I saw about 20 and then headed for home, their was two coming over the tree line as I was leaving so the show could still be going on for all I know 

Anyone else see them or any thoughts?


 
   

[Jim Eddie]

Have you been on the pocheen Noel 

[Noel Kelly]

No!!!!!

[Jay Scott]

Fireworks?....


  Sorry Noel couldn't resist... sounds strange!

Jay

[Dave Gordon]

if it is clear and frosty out there it could easily be the northern lights. Normally seen green or red round here and flicker and fade.

Could have been the glow from a large derelect building currently on fire in Howes Drive.

Could have been a parachute flare in the clouds, all the pyromaniacs have gone mental as usual and are using bonfire night as an excuse to set fire to anything not submerged!

[Noel Kelly]

if it is clear and frosty out there it could easily be the northern lights. Normally seen green or red round here and flicker and fade.

Could have been the glow from a large derelect building currently on fire in Howes Drive.

Could have been a parachute flare in the clouds, all the pyromaniacs have gone mental as usual and are using bonfire night as an excuse to set fire to anything not submerged!

Definitely not the northern lights Dave or any of the others either these were distinct orange lights travelling across the sky. Like aircraft except brighter,wrong colour and not blinking. The sky was clear at the time.
One of my friends took a video with his phone, I will post that when I can get it if its any good. Wish I had thought to video it myself.   

This is quiet close but their was more space between them
 

[Rob Brownfield]

There has been a lot of RAF movement over me tonight...we have had at least 10 Tornados go over tonight, heading in a southerly direction , passing directly over my house at inchmarlo. These are seen as 2 orange lights moving fast...

Other thing it might have been is paper balloons with candles in. This happened a few weeks ago over Torry when even the Police where reporting very similar things to what you have described. Turned out the Uni boat club was celebrating an anniversary and had released chinese paper balloons 

Or we are being invaded!!!

[Ben Dixon]

Or was it someone casting an MED 120 under streetlights?  For me that would be the logical conclusion 

[Jim Eddie]

WTF indeed Noel, never seen anything like that before 

 

Jim

 

[chrisfisher]

I also saw the orange lights wasn't anything too sinister, someone in Kintore was letting off small lanterns, quite similar to miniature hot air balloons.  The orange was the flames giving them their lift. 

No mind altering substances or otherwise involved.

Cheers

Chris

[Rob Brownfield]

Horaaaahhh...I should be an investigator

[Noel Kelly]

I also saw the orange lights wasn't anything too sinister, someone in Kintore was letting off small lanterns, quite similar to miniature hot air balloons.  The orange was the flames giving them their lift. 

No mind altering substances or otherwise involved.

Cheers

Chris

Excellent I had been hoping for a plausible explanation and that's good enough for me. Had been thinking about them today, and the fact they were fading at approx the same place in the sky. Running out of fuel was all that made sense to me.
I am a grade A sceptic and seeing something I couldn't put a name on was slightly doing my head in    
Very impressive sight though.   

[Iain Goolager]

Nonsense!
They were UFO's. I seen them descend over Clovenstone and one of my neighbours went out last evening and I for one haven't seen him today!

I'm writing this from under my bed

Iai...................