Monday, 5pm - WEIRD lights in the sky over Grantham were caught on video by Journal reader Andy Aulton.
Andy was hosting a barbecue at his home on Saturday evening when he spotted the orange spheres in the sky.
He said: "All of a sudden this big bright ball appeared, moving from south to north on a steady trajectory at a constant speed.
"The eerie thing about it was there was no noise at all, and as our RAF frinds fly over our house regularly we know the sound of jet engines."
Andy saw three of the objects pass overhead in around 15 minutes.
Did you see the lights in sky? Do you know what they are? Contact us: comment@granthamjournal.co.uk
YOUR COMMENTS
I was a guest at Mr Aultons BBQ and i do not believe these balls of fire were Chinese Lanterns. If they were, how can it be explained that they were 4 minutes apart and all followed the same course and trajectory.
People like K.Thomas get on my nerves by discounting the sighting when they did not actually witness it themselves.
Also apologies to Mr Verni, NY, USA - we did not have a film crew to hand on the night in question therefore the quality of the footage is not up to our usual standard !!
Elizabeth Graham
In reply to some of the comments about the video we took about the strange objects we saw in the sky I reply.
1. I myself have never subscribed to the theory of UFOs, we only reported what we saw and invited comments.
2. At the Barbi, was a friend who is in the RAF who has been to Iraq, Afghanistan and witnessed all the atrocities of war, and he had never seen anything of this nature before.
3. The quality of the film is in question. Well it was filmed on a digital camera that happened to be the only thing to hand, so I am sorry Mr Jim Verni of Rochester NY, BUT OBVIOUSLY WE DID NOT HAVE A FULL CBS NEWS CREW IN THE GARDEN!
Andy Aulton
The recent footage of glowing orange ufo's are unfortunately 'chines lanterns'. www.skylanterns.com
I must urge your good selves and other media to look deeper into any reports, photo's and video that contain words like, 'red (or orange), flame like orbs that float eerily and silently in the night sky...' Are almost always these chinese lanterns.
It is perhaps a new fad for the UK hence why not a lot of people are aware of them.. There's more and more localized newspaper reports of these things and its embarrasing for the people and the paper's that print the story when really it is nothing more than an exotic balloon.
I am by no means a debunker of UFO's. I investigate ufo's part time and i believe there's a good amount of sightings of strange lights out there that can be classed as genuine. It just gets on my nerves that there's so many of these sky lantern reports coming in now and is distorting the theory of what is and is not really a UFO.
K. Thomas
Its rather important that people in UK and elsewhere start to understand that new types of craft, reconnaissance from ETs is being deployed for unknown reasons to get info on Earth's Inhabitants. I strongly urge you all to get more serious and understand how important this video really is and how essential it is to get the recorder of the video to give statements to ufo research groups in entirety of the event seen. Google my name/word ufo "Steve Tobias ufo" to learn the latest in ufo research work i did in years 2006 and 2007.
If you still do not accept after reading more how serious the matter is i suggest you search youtube.com video using search phrase nasa ufos or nasa worm...it will show a cargo craft that was being tugged by a ufo (gold orb stays motionless in video) and the tug released the "worm" ufo as the NASA space crew went over head, the size of this craft is inestimable but could be at least a mile in length, the nature of its uncontrolled motion in zero gravity suggests to me-- a ufo researcher since 1991 that it contains biomass of some kind...the craft was being tugged to Earth or was transferring material from Earth to elsewhere. I am a Veteran of the US Air Force and your own nation's Military maintains secrets from you about ufos...wake up, learn, become motivated.
Steve Tobias
USA
Regarding the strange lights over Grantham, I too have seen the lights over Grantham. My son and a friend spotted them on Saturday 26th at about 9pm going over our houses in a south to north direction. There were three in total. Bright orange and again not even a sound. How spooky!!!!
To us they looked just like Chinese lanterns but with a bright burning flame in the middle. They wafted along on the evening breeze and then disappeared out of sight.
Has any one been able to shed any "light" on the matter?
Karen Cook
your actual UFO-sighting is very ordinary here in Germany. Since 12 months we get in our UFO-Center CENAP all weekends exact such reports from all parts of the nation. To call am number: 600 times! Right 600 times in 12 months. It´s evertime the same thing: Relativly cheap Asian Skylaterns !
Seen in the nightsky ist it like a scene from Spielberg's 'Close Encounter...'-film.
Werner Walter
I do not like being critical, but honestly, that was one of the worst UFO videos I've ever seen. One tiny little light is not very impressive. The observer might have seen something more interesting but the video does not.
Jim Verni
Rochester, NY
USA
As i`ve said before could be Aurora (secret US project),with no sound though a satellite going across the sky or even one of the RAF`s secret projects. that`s not to mention the light reflections from clouds.you wan`t to believe in aliens go for it,the rest of us only deal in facts.
John Pacey
Luton