[Satellites or UFO's]

I know I'm going to regret this and I'm opening myself up to all sorts of ridicule but I really need to tell you all about my fishing trip last night.

It was a lovely warm night, prehaps a little windy and the sky was lovely, clear and moonless. The fishing had been very slow and I spent quite a bit of time looking up at the stars. I had seen about 4-5 leonid meteors that evening and I remember also thinking that Venus (well I think it was Venus ) was looking very bright and clear.

My Girlfriend called me up on my mobile at about 01:10 this morning to say goodnight. We talked for a few minutes and when I hung up I reeled in my rod to check the bait.

It was when I was walking back up the beach that I saw a bright orange ball of light above me to the north east. It was moving quite slowly from west to east, my immediate thought was that it was a satellite as I had seen a few that night. This one however was very orange and almost as bright as Venus. I watched it slowly move east until it quite suddenly faded away.

At this point I didn't think much of it, having seen the ISS last week pass overhead it didn't really strike me as odd. However as I looked over head I saw an identical object, travelling in the same direction and the same speed. This one was pretty much overhead and was very clear to me. It looked like a bright orange ball, again about the same light intensity of Venus. As I watched it seem to vary in intensity sometimes seeming brighter an sometimes fainter. At times it also looked like it was flickering or even pulsating (although pulsating isn't correct really as there was no rhythm to the changes in light intensity).

At this point it struck me as a little bit odd. Although I have witnessed plenty of satellites in the past. Never have I seen 2 so close and so identical.

Then I was in for a bit of a shock. A third object, exactly the same, appeared on the western horizon. Same trajectory. Same speed, same behavior. I watched this one approach but this time, instead of disappearing on the eastern horizon It faded out right overhead. I looked west again and saw 3 orange balls, all the same. All approaching at the same speed.

It was then that I got a little bit concerned. I have certainly never seen anything like it in my life. The exact details of the behavior of these three is a little bit sketchy as by then I was attempting to take pictures on my mobile. I think one by one they moved from west to east and faded out like the others. But in different parts of the sky. Some making it further east than others.

I'm not sure of the exact number I saw in the end. I think possibly one more orange ball crossed after the three. So in total 6-7 were observed. In all the whole event lasted at least 10 mins. I suppose the lights took about 2 minutes or so to cross from horizon to horizon. No other lights were seen, these were not aircraft as far as I could make out.

My location was on the east Kent coast. On The beach at Seabrook between Hythe and Folkestone.

The pictures are still on my phone. I can't make out from the tiny screen if I caught them on camera. I need to get a lead to enable me to transfer the pictures onto the computer. Fingers crossed I captured them clearly!

I would be gratefull if anyone could shed light on what it was that I saw. Is it reasonable to assume that 6-7 identical satellites all crossed above me. All so bright and I've never seen an orange one before. It's all very puzzling!

P.s I only caught 2 fish and no I wasn't drunk

Hi, i have seen the strange orange balls over the last 4 days. I have seen them in groups of 7, 4, 3 and i have seen them on there own.

The first time was last week when i was out in the garden looking at the stars with my binoculars. At about 3am i noticed 3 orange looking objects in the sky. I stood watching them as they was passing over head. Then 4 more just appeared and was following the other three. I got my binoculars and started to look at them. It looked like a solid round shaped object that was surrounded by fire. It had a small trail of flames behind it which was not visible to the naked eye. I ran inside to get my phone but by the time i got back outside they had all gone. Then the next day i was looking out my window and saw another one, so got my phone and started to record. I only managed two small clips before it vanished. Then on saturday i saw them again another three times, the third was when i was in my garden recording a firework show in the park a couple of miles from my home in gloucester. I have uploaded all my videos to youtube. I'm on my mobile and as such i can't copy and paste the link to my videos. If you go to youtube and search for jameslovesjayne you will find my videos.

Someone said that it could be a chines lantern, i don't think so as they was all passing the same stars on all 4 nights. I dont think thats possible as the wind direction had changed too. More detail is on my youtube page.

James