Published: 5:56 AM 1/28/2010

South Shields, Tyne and Wear, UK

My sister rang me tonight to tell me that she and her husband saw two fast moving orange lights traveling southeast over South Shields.

These things were high up, flew apart, and made no noise whatsoever. What is curious is that the husband is a trained first mate who has worked on ships for years for BP etc, and has no interest in these things whatsoever and jibes me when we talk about sightings.

He says there was no logical explanation for the objects in that they were quite a long way apart, moved very quickly, and didn't have the normal attributes of satellites, or engines etc.

My sister was actually quite excited about it and happy for me to contact you. She said they were moving in tandem sort of down the coast. I suggested lanterns, but the speed seemed to throw that off, and I'd be interested to see if there were any other sightings in the area.

Pretty sure my brother-in-law would have just scoffed or explained it off as whatever.

As a coda to that, my interest in such things started ages ago. When I was about 14 yrs old, around 1974 , me and a couple of friends saw a triangular formation of star lights come together over the North Sea off the coast of South Shields. It has really stuck with me.

There was one star to start with, then a movement of what looked like a snooker rack of stars come together over the sea. They then moved away from each other and gradually disappeared.

It was just daft really, can't remember what time of year, but about nine at night viewing over towards Trow Rock and what appeared to be very high up.

Anyway if anyone saw the lights over Shields tonight I'd be interested to hear.

Yours truly,

Richard