Originally Posted by HBG (Post 9806068)

Last night I was sitting on my terrace playing with the dogs at around eight o'clock when I suddenly noticed a glowing, red object travelling across the sky from roughly west to east. It was probably several miles away and travelled at varying speed, staying stationary for minutes at a time.

I called my wife who came out to the terrace and took photographs of the object. It stayed in the sky, glowing brightly, for several minutes, until the bright red light faded, quite slowly, to be replaced by a normal, much smaller white light which then disappeared into the distance.

After my wife went back indoors, the dogs suddenly sat perfectly still and looked to the right. The bright red ball in the sky had reappeared, much nearer this time, and seemed to be stationary, perhaps a mile into the sky.

I called out to my wife again and she managed to take more photographs. The object glowed for several minutes, until the red light slowly turned white, as though the thing was speeding away into the distance.

There were no fireworks in the area at that time and I was sober.

Originally Posted by jackytoo (Post 9807575)

I don't really believe in UFO's. There is usually some explanation for them, unless you are a conspiracy enthusiast. Many are even faked. Though I was on a cruise a couple of years ago. Watching the sunset on the Gulf of Mexico. Above the sun was 3 strange objects hovering shaped like cigars. I was impressed enough to google when I came home and there had been sightings in the USA too. The weather does throw up some strange formations.