What caused mystery lights over Charlton Kings?
Mysterious lights have been visible above Cheltenham.
Residents in Pilford Road in Charlton Kings watched four lights move across the sky above the town at around 6.30pm on Friday evening.
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One of the people who saw the lights in Cheltenham's MP Martin Horwood.
He said: "There were four lights in the sky, looking like little fire lights."
"They were moving quite slowly towards Leckhampton in perfect formation, a sort of wonky parallelogram, not a rectangle."
Another viewer was Kenneth page who lives in Pilford Road.
He said: "There were plenty of people who saw it, at least four men and several children who were out for Halloween.
"The lights held formation, their relative position to each other, and went out of sight near the Devil's Chimney.
"We kept them in view for the better part of five minutes."
Mr Page said he thought the lights might have been on one vehicle rather than four separate craft.
Using a ruler and map he estimated the possible course of the lights.
He said: "If it had kept to a straight course it should have been visible from Whaddon and Prestbury and the line goes to the cemetery."
He added : "I'm keeping an open mind as to what the lights might have been."
Did you see lights in the sky above Cheltenham on Friday. Contact the Echo on 01242 271823.
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by amy, cheltenham ullenwood court
Wednesday, December 03 2008, 11:28AM
“It was quiet werid the 4 glowing lights in the sky”
by amy, cheltenham
Tuesday, November 25 2008, 4:46PM
“it was amazing I was quiet shocked by this when I saw four glowing things in the sky every now and then they would dissapeer out of sight”
by simon, cheltenham
Tuesday, November 04 2008, 10:40PM
“i saw the lights, followed them for 2 miles until i was sucked up into there space ship which was full of slime and a rather fat bird called berryl, they informed me that they had come to gloucestershire in search of knowledge and as you can gather
LEFT EMPTY HANDED”
by alex sass, cheltenham
Tuesday, November 04 2008, 10:05PM
“Select your editorial images more carefully.”
by anonymous commenter, cheltenham
Tuesday, November 04 2008, 8:06PM
“Im not sure sounds like alien business of aliens im only 14 years old but my family have witnessed many ufos and are believers.”
by Walter Bishop, Glos
Tuesday, November 04 2008, 5:05PM
“So the space time continum has opened as I predicted...Life forms from the 2nd Nebula Symosis have visited..”
by Twitchy, Under the bed
Monday, November 03 2008, 9:29PM
“I cant sleep now”
by simon, chelt
Monday, November 03 2008, 9:22PM
“Well for starters no aliens here, for sure. but having said that fairford is only a stones throw away. I too have witnessed odd aircraft above cheltenhams airspace, but i don't think anything out of the ordinary is going on, special flares are often used to accompany exercises which can float for an hour or so and probably likely to be the case.
then again it could also had been an astroid shower, which we could observe a week ago if the sky was clear and looking towards the orion constellation.
but lets not forget we have some of the heaviest guarded airspace in the UK above gloucestershire and who knows what wizzardry aircraft is up there, but one thing for sure it's likely to be man made.”
by dredd, sirius
Monday, November 03 2008, 8:18PM
“Obviously crack smokin Aliens diguised as Chineese Lanterns...”
by Monkey Boy, Leckhampton
Monday, November 03 2008, 8:13PM
“They're Skylanterns. I suspect they were launched by the Echo knowing full well some attention seeking saddo will makea fuss. Saves them having to write a proper news report.”