Couple rethink UFO view after sighting

When Phillip and Sharon Beddoes went to sleep on Saturday night they didn't believe in UFOs.

But come Sunday morning they weren't quite so certain.

For the couple, of Arleston Avenue, Wellington, saw an orange light in the sky above their house. It first hovered in the air before "pirouetting and dancing" across the sky. Then it disappeared at enormous speed.

"When we first saw it, it was in one position behind the trees in the woods," said Mr Beddoes, 39. "There was nothing else in the sky but this orange glow."

He said the light, which was diamond-shaped with smaller lights inside it, darted about in the air but made no noise. "And then it was gone in the blink of an eye."

Mr Beddoes, a cleaning supervisor at GKN Sankey, said: "We could not talk to each other afterwards. We were amazed."

The orange glow was in the sky long enough for Mrs Beddoes to video it on her mobile phone.

Steve Smith, of Dawley Bank, saw something similar on Sunday evening. His UFO also moved across the sky but made no sound.

The Beddoes say they have no idea what it was they saw, but they hope a Shropshire Star reader can give them an explanation.

"I have never seen anything like that at all," said Mr Beddoes. "I know what a plane is, everyone does, but for it to start in that position and then do what it did. I cannot explain it."

Mr Beddoes said that before seeing the light he had paid little attention to UFO stories. "I'm not a believer," he said, "but I've got some doubts now."

By Andrew Owen