Orange lights over the mountain road (Charles G., 1987)

What was reported

Charles G., an engineer who worked with electricity all his life, adds a later sighting to his 1976 account. Around one in the morning in 1987, walking along a road and looking toward what appears to be the same mountain, he saw a cluster of six orange lights like large glowing blobs of jelly travelling in loose, irregular formation at roughly 30 degrees elevation, about where the main road would run. They moved from his left to right, south to north, at only about 25 mph for some five minutes before passing out of view. He points out that there are no trams, that the railway lies lower down, and that sodium lights do not drift about. The sighting was reported to a newspaper and acquaintances rang to joke about his eyesight.

What Hind made of it

Printed as part of Pam Puxley's transcript without comment.

Explanation offered
Witness rules out sodium street lights, trams and railway lights

In their words

• I saw a 'bunch' of orange lights which looked like big bright blobs of glowing jelly

• Now, I'm an engineer and worked with electricity all my life.

Cross references

• Case No 70 1976 sparkler sighting

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 8 (Sept. 1993), spread 12-13