hello,
Well another weekend gone and just back from visting my father and cousins in Kingsley in North Staffordshire (England, near Alton towers). We saw three fast moving lights, almost directly over head of us. We saw these lights at three seperate times, the first was on 26/07/2008 Saturday night at 22.30hrs approx, this was moving north to south and BELOW what little cloud theres was that night.
The second was a little later that night at 00.00hrs approx, now this was seen by my cousin and i, we first saw it coming over the distant arizon(again good visability) a soon as we noticed the light i called for my father who was in the house, about ten feet away, by the time i came back the light had travelled form the arizon to directly above us in about 15 seconds and disappered travelling south.
After about two hours of waiting for any more lights my cousin and i called it a night ( my father and uncle who came across later gave up just after the second sighting) and went to bed.

Sunday 27/07/2008 woke up went out for the day, came back had something to eat. my father,uncle,auntie,cousin and myself sat outside my fathers house where we saw last nights lights, we all planned to look again for these lights. As we have in the past seen these kind of lights and knew from experiance that some times they reappear the following night. My father kept a dairy of times, dates,who,what and when, and said that the usual time was twenty minutes past the previous night's sightings.
So we waited for 22.30, and the cloud threatened cover the sky completly, but just after 22.30 the cloud started ot dissapate, we thought that as the other night experiance was 22.30 we had missed it, but my father said perhaps we should wait.
At 22.50 approx the light reappeared, again it was below what little cloud there was left, it was travelling north to south very smooth, but this time the light flickered then went out then came back on, this happened again only to reappear a little further on, then as i was watching through from my binoculars, it again faded from sight, i kept my binoculars in place using a telegraph pole as a marker, two seconds later it reappered on the right of my sight, so in other words it just jumped from travelling north to south to west (and some distance) and the carried on travelling south and then disappered.
After this the cloud cover come on with a vegance and covered the sky completly so well all decided to call it night.


NOW THE SOME FACTS:- 1. These were NOT satalites, we know what these look like (in fact we where watching a some on Saturday night).
2. Helicopters and Areoplanes, we all know what these look like in day light and night time we see them all the time coming into and out of Manchester airport.

3. These lights were about twice as large and as bright as any star in the sky.

4. Then the speed, far to fast for any aircraft comimg in or out of Manchester airport, we have watched and timed these conventional craft, and got bored waiting for them to disappere.

I have seen these kind of lights many times on my own and with other people, but one person i give more crediability to, would be to a guy who told me he had been watching these lights himself for several nights in a row. this guy has been working on military aircraft and helicopters for over 40yrs, he used to work on military aircraft on a aircraft carrier, and he has told me he does not believe in ufo's!!. But he has said to me that he could not say what type of aircraft these could be.
OH yes one last thing, i could not take a photo for two reasons, 1, tried it before and all you get is a white spot on a black board (boring) and the other reason is i broke my bloody camera satruday afternoon!.