Very Odd Sighting!

[Crepuscular Ray]

Police helicopter with its searchlight on, occasionally turning away so it's not visible?

[WheresTheSnow]

Theres normally a few lights on a helicopter other than the search light. Was the first helicopter comment aimed at my post? If so there was no sound anyway.

[bobbydog]

its confirmed that this was a UFO

[syed2878]

well ladies and gents if the what ever it is planning a trip to brum out of space then lets hope they don't go to brum fc they won't find any inteligents there. Lol.

[WhiteXmas]

I posted in the UFO section about a bright light I thought was a star. One night it vanished twice and reappeared, dissapeared for a few minutes each time. Seems to slightly dart around if you watch it carefully, I frequently see it out my window. No clue what it is.

Apparently when we see stars that initially remain still then shoot along the skyline it is actually our eyes playing tricks due to the movement of the earth or something along those lines as after all nothing remains stationary in space I guess!

[Methuselah]

And, if you stare at any pinpoint light-source, it will disappear; the photon-receptors at the back of the eye need to reset themselves?

[WhiteXmas]

And, if you stare at any pinpoint light-source, it will disappear; the photon-receptors at the back of the eye need to reset themselves?

Suppose it depends on how many whiskeys I've had

[Methuselah]

Suppose it depends on how many whiskeys I've had

There's no 'e' in Scotch Whisky!

[WhiteXmas]

There's no 'e' in Scotch Whisky!

I knew it was a bit early on a Sunday to start

[Methuselah]

I'm about to sample some vobka!

[Snowangel-MK]

I'm about to sample some vobka!

and I'm sat here making slow gin !

[Methuselah]

and I'm sat here making slow gin !

Schnappe!

[knocker]

From what you and others have reported, a meteor (or returning space debris) would be my best guess...Many such things explode in the atmosphere...

Not bad RP.

Bright lights seen in the skies over Britain last night ( Friday)may have been a meteor or “space junk†breaking up on re-entering the atmosphere.

The lights, thought to have been some 80 miles above the surface of the earth and moving at a minimum of 18,000 miles per hour, prompted a flurry of 999 calls the length of the country.

Sightings were reported to police and coastguards across Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. The lights were also spotted in north-east England, the Midlands and East Anglia.

Sightings began at about 11pm, the most northerly being a report of a flare at Duncansby Head, near John O’Groats, which was attributed to the meteor storm.

In Scotland, callers from Airdrie to Arbroath told police that lights looked like flares, fireworks and a plane crash.

A spokesman for Forth Coastguard said: “From talking to other stations and to the RAF it’s almost certainly meteorite activity. Calls came in from all over the place, thick and fast.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/astronomy/article3546924.ece

[Richard Lake]

I too saw this bright light on Friday night, at first it looked like one of them White 'flare' fireworks slowly moving across the sky above the dock tower, but as I watched it I quickly realised it was moving at a much quicker speed. It trailed across the sky for at least 30 seconds, breaking up as it was doing so, I noticed it passing above low-level cloud before apparently breaking up completely in the distance to the West.

Being a smoker, I've seen many shooting stars over the years, a flitting glance at a meteorite entering the atmosphere and breaking up in the upper atmosphere almost immediately. In my view it must have been an exceptionally large meteorite, as it broke up extraordinarily slowly in several 'stages' as it passed through several layers of the atmosphere until it was no more.