2009-07-23 - Urmston (Manchester) - Sphere

four spheres travelling in pairs

i seen them from the corner of my eye, at first i didnt think much of it!there were two at first that were silent,at least 100 feet above ground and roughly a mile away.What got my attention was the bright combination of flames that were rapidly changing in intensity all over each object.they were moving at a steady rate which i worked out would have been about 40 to 50 miles an hour. One was leading and the other was always trying to catch up!,,the leader was also waiting for the other now & then.

They both passed me about half a mile away at still roughly 100 feet high, thats when i seen two more!and it got a lot more interesting!!.They followed more or less the same flight pattern , i couldnt work out what they were and i was puzzled because they were silent i thought they may be hot air balloons but it was a crystal clear night with tons of stars out and perfectly calm,not even a whisper of wind!.Then to my surprise the leader of this second pair deviated and travelled straight toward me,as god is my witness ive never seen anything like this in my life on tv or in the flesh!,,it was amazing!!!, it stayed at roughly the same height and stopped moving and just hovered in front of me but it was really close!,id say about 60 feet away horizontally. I witnessed in crisp detail what this thing looked like even at night!,ive got a good sense of perspective and id say it was sixty to eighty feet in circumference completely round and covered in what looked like huge bunsen ! burners and individually these were changing fast from low to high flame,i realised this was what all the flickering was at a distance!. I could see the object behind the flames was dark in colour maybe grey or black, i was amazed to see these jets so big and very close yet completely silent!!.Then after hovering there for about 40 seconds it began to make its way back to the other one and they both travelled the same path as the first two till they all came together roughly two to three miles from where i was standing.Thats when another puzzling thing happened, one of them moved away a bit from the rest then stopped and in about five seconds just faded out, then one by one each of the remaining went to the same spot as the first and disappeared the same.Id consider myself an excellent witness & will never forget that night!,hope someone out there witnessed as much as i did as it would be great to get the sighting verified as a genuine ufo sighting.