Orb Shaped Flickering Orange Light Over Broxburn Near Academy UK

Date: March 6, 2010
Time: 9:20 p.m.

Location of Sighting: Broxburn.
Number of witnesses: 4
Number of Objects: 1
Shape of Objects: Orb.

Full Description of Event/Sighting: Broxburn near Academy: Saturday 6th of March 21:20. Two of us were standing outside in the back garden (our house is on a hill overlooking the academy) when I saw what looked like a firework rise up from the ground, it was between the A89 and the M8 in the direction of Almond Dell. I would normally equate this to seeing the headlights of a distant car as it turned in my direction, but the orb shaped flickering orange light went upwards, away from the ground. It definitely wasn't the usual distant car headlights. I drew my fiancée's attention and asked what she thought it was, she had no idea, but saw it as clearly as I did. We watched (it was in the south) as it raised up higher, guessing but most likely about four hundred metres and then it started to move towards us (due north).

I couldn't see any green or red or any other flashing lights indicating that it was a normal aircraft, but it's maneuvers made it seem like a helicopter. The first sound I thought it was making was like a plane, but then a plane appeared, coming from right to left, heading towards the airport runway. The craft slowed and moved out of the way of the aircraft by going up a bit so I'm guessing it was pretty near it. The plane continued normally toward the runway area and the craft followed it for what seemed a distance of about three fingers, maybe five hundred metres. It then continued to head towards us and when it was roughly above the academy it moved in an arc to eventually move straight upwards.

I'd guess it had been moving pretty fast all the time to cover the distance it did but the next surprise was that it went straight up very fast until it's light faded. I'm guessing that the orange-ness must be some kind of reaction to our air as when we saw it go straight up, it changed from orange to white before fading. Not really a believer in UFOs as haven't found anything that can't be explained yet, well here we are!

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