Darting silently in formation, the mysterious glowing orbs light up the night sky.
Some say these orange lights even weave in between each other with the precision of a synchronised flying team from some far corner of the universe.
Stunned: Families in Lincoln spotted glowing orange spheres grouped together in the sky on Sunday night
Eerie: Witnesses reported seeing the lights flying in anapparent formation, dodging and darting around each other beforedisappearing
The most recent sighting was on Sundaywhen they were seen in two locations, Merseyside and Lincoln. Daysearlier a similar phenomenon was spotted over Cambridgeshire, where onewitness claims each was as big as a house.
These four strange orange lights were captured in this photograph taken in Holland on May 11
‘After that, seven more arrived and weaved throughthe crowd of lights like strange kinds of aircraft. After five minutesof moving around, they hung in the air for a second then shot off intothe sky and disappeared.’
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‘And I was asoldier for a decade so I could immediately rule out flares or weatherballoons. I really have no idea what they were.’
On the same night, May27, at around 11.30pm a guesthouse owner near Huntingdon also saw the lights. ‘There was no sound,’ he said.
Unexplained: An image manufactured by Auberon Hedgecoe of how the lights appeared over a half an hour period above Huntingdon