The video features some amazing close up footage of a series of large translucent orbs slowly travelling in pairs across the night sky. The footage was taken by Kevin Price on a working class council estate called Thornhill in Southampton, England on the 25th June 2007 approx 9:30pm. In a short interview with the Southern Daily Echo newspaper, he had this to say:

"They were moving in a perfectly straight line and were very smooth...I'm quite sceptical about UFOs but it was really strange - really weird."

Whats interesting about the footage apart from the naturalistic narrative and quality of the footage are the remarks through out the short video drawing attention to the huge size of the objects, that and the fact the objects were travelling in pairs.

Its also worth noting that in the last week there has also been a huge amount of chemtrail activity over the UK skies and a few people have also reported cognitve dysfunction or at the very least a slowing down of the synaptic exchange. Are all these events related on a deep level or indeed are these all part of the same meta-event?

This seems to have been a night of anomalous sky activity as this extract from the following UFOINFO report from Old Basford in Nottingham which took place around 5-6hrs later and 170 miles north suggests:

"It was hovering quite low above the roofs of houses and I could see the reflection from the lights as it reflected on the roofs. This was between the hours of 2am and 3am GMT...my son couldn't see the colour of the U.F.O. due to the brightness of the lights. The lights were round like little spotlights."

While you cannot convince the debunkers with facts or any quality of video, addicted as they are to the soothing linguistic opioids of lanterns, helicopter lights, venus and hoaxes. For the rest of us in the UK however celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Maury Island and the Kenneth Arnold sighting, this video and the sighting report is a clear sign that high weirdness is just around the corner. 

UPDATE AUGUST 2007 

MYSTERY SOLVED....THEY WERE CHINESE LANTERNS: EVERYBODY BACK TO SLEEP. 

According to the Southern Daily Echo who originally released the video before Exopolitics UK picked it up, the mystery was solved very quickly:

Here is the full article below

Note: the web article is dated 27th June 2007 (the footage was shot on the 25th June and uploaded to their website on the 26th June.

The original article can be found here. 

...But it’s not what you think! By Will Carson

GLOWING orange lights filmed above the Southampton night sky were Chinese lanterns not flying saucers, it has emerged. A family spotted the UFO activity and recorded the glowing lights moving slowly over the Thornhill estate.
The video on the Daily Echo website attracted huge interest from readers and was featured in yesterday's Echo.
But Michael Gibbons, 65, today revealed the strange lights were flying lanterns released at his party, held to mark the renovation of his house.

"Somebody got them off the Internet, brought them to the party and let them go. There were about ten of them. You can see them for miles. I was quite amazed when I read the story in the Echo. I'd never seen them before but there are really effective to look at. They must have been three miles away and you could still see them. If I didn't know what they were I would have thought the same."

The lanterns were released in Chaucer Road on Saturday, half a mile away from where they were filmed in Holcroft Road. Flying lanterns are a traditional Chinese communication tool dating back thousands of years.They were invented in the third century for use a military signals. Today they are a popular feature at festivals, particularly the full moon festival in Taiwan. Many now see them as an alternative to fireworks.

A spokesman for the lantern company wishesinthesky.com said:

"We've heard of many UFO sightings which have turned out to been flying lanterns. The UFO Society has followed this with interest."
He said the flying lanterns were becoming very popular at weddings, funerals and parties.

COMMENT

Chinese Lanterns have now joined the soothing semantic chorus of 'obvious fake', 'weather balloon', 'Venus', and 'ball lightening' sung by the commercial media, mainstream science, debunkers and the mass hordes of the ATS (arrogant teenage sceptics) alike.

The year 2007 has witnessed an explosion of both sightings and video footage of anomalous sky phenomena here in the UK. These sightings appear to be growing exponentially as the year moves on. 

Likewise, if you look at the reports in the local and national press, particularly concerning the 'orb' sightings, the phrase "they were only Chinese lanterns after all"