I was on Cub camp at Ashworth Valley, North of Manchester, on Saturday. At around 11:00pm we saw 3 fast moving objects, a pair and one following a minute or so after. All were heading north. They were illuminated orange, but at the same point they each went dark. As there was still some ambient light we saw them turn slightly to the left and carry on. No nav lights just the orange.
One of our other leaders has the Flight Radar App and they didn’t show on it. There was no obvious sound either.
Too fast and quiet to be helicopters.
Any thoughts?
Military of reheat? Space Aliens?
I saw a UFO over Heathrow airspace about 10 years ago. A large orange ball of light floating low down in the air followed by it moving off into the distance. I watched it for about 10 mins.
At 11 pm aircraft might have been high enough to have been illuminated by the sun setting in the NW. Right now the sun is setting at 9.43 pm at sea level in Manchester and at 12,000 metres the sunset is delayed by 8 minutes, much much longer if you happen to be travelling towards the sun as your targets were.
So either a spacecraft with other craft close by or military aircraft at very high altitude or UFOs.
This happened on Saturday evening, possibly afterburners shutting off after they reached altitude and speed?
Whilst working as a pizza delivery driver in the early 1990s I thought I'd seen a UFO landing just outside Woking.
Turns out, it was a massive blimp with blinking lights, advertising the new Orange mobile phone network.
We thought it was spacecraft catching the last of the sun too, then they changed course. Also, the third one was illuminated for much longer so it wasn't going into shadow at the same point.
Wrong direction and time for the Typhoons, unless they were on their way home in a hurry.
"...possibly afterburners..."
Only of they were Johnny Foreigner aircraft. Royal Air Force chaps and chapesses serve Her Majesty in aircraft that may feature "reheat", another invention of Sir Frank Whittle.
