Bright Ball Of Orange Light With
Tail Over Braintree Essex UK

Date: April 21, 2010
Time: 9:45 p.m.

Location of Sighting: Braintree Essex.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of Objects: 1
Shape of Objects: Round ball with tail.

Full Description of Event/Sighting: I was walking to the shop in Cressing road B/tree, as I entered street from an alleyway, I crossed the road and looked North. Straight away I saw a bright ball of orange light with a sort of tail moving in a northwest direction. It was as bright and almost the same colour as the street lights which were on as it was dark, but was at least 100-200 feet up. The sky was clear and stars could be seen, also there was no sound. It was moving slow and kept in the same direction for about 4 minutes. It then faded out as though it had gone into cloud, but the sky was clear. At the same moment a plane came into view, it had two white lights with a red one behind.

The plane was at the same height and crossed the position the object had been. I read on this site about another sighting in Braintree of orange balls of light that were identified as lanterns. I have seen many lanterns in the past and this was not like any I have seen before. This was too bright and was not flickering and though moving slow, seemed to be moving rather than floating in the wind. I would not rule out it being some sort of balloon or lantern, but the light coming from it was too intense to be a candle.

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