A FarShores thanks to Andy Slack, of England, a regular visitor here who forwarded this scan from his local newspaper, reporting even more unexplained lights in the sky from that country. Andy tells us, "I only bought it because i saw just two very bright quite large round lights in the same area, but on friday night [July 25] . They were horizontal and appeared to be fairly close together, although they were probably a couple of miles away. I assumed they were one object but maybe not. They rose very slowly into the sky fading out. It looked a bit like a plane flying directly away and climbing slowly, but it certainly wasn't a plane. Things are certainly hotting up!!"

Mysterious coloured lights spotted floating over Sheffield on Saturday night have left residents - and police - puzzled.

Eyewitness reports vary about the strange sightings with some people saying they saw around 10 orange lights in the sky while others spotted up to 100 green lights floating around the Meadowhall area.

John and Angela Crookes watched the lights for around five minutes in Shiregreen after they were alerted to the unusual sight by a bemused neighbour.

Angela, 30, said: "It was quite bizarre and not like anything we had ever seen before. To start with there were quite a few of the lights in a cluster. They weren't flashing and didn't make a noise but were as clear as anything."

John described seeing a group of around 40 of the orange lights, which then headed off towards Concord Park before other lights appeared in much smaller groups.

The 33-year-old added: "I was wondering if it was an asteroid which had broken up but one changed direction and you could see something like the jet stream of a plane coming after them."

Norman Marritt said he spotted several pairs of green lights flying over Shiregreen at about 10.30pm on Saturday.

He said: "My wife saw them first and we both watched them for the time it took them to go past. I counted 10 pairs and there had already been some more before that.

"They were circles of lights going in pairs and they seemed to come from the direction of Rotherham. I would like to find out what they were."

South Yorkshire Police said they did not receive any extra calls around the time the lights were spotted and have no explanation for what might have been behind them.

(Original headline: Did you spot the mysterious lights over Sheffield? )