Odd sighting NW England

At around 10pm this evening my wife jumped up shouting what the heck was that. By the time I got up and ran across to the window there was nothing there. She told me she had seen an orange light which she assumed was a light aircraft or helicopter to the west and just above the trees in height so fairly low. It came down on a shallow trajectory at a similar speed to an aircraft landing. It really scared her as she expected there to be a fireball but there was nothing. To give you an idea it came down close to Manchester airport which is north of our home in Cheshire.

a reply to: macpdm

Did it make a sound either in the air or what would be an expected "landing"?

a reply to: macpdm
Thread posted a few minutes ago about a meteor going over the uk.

HERE

originally posted by: VoidHawk
a reply to: macpdm
Thread posted a few minutes ago about a meteor going over the uk.

HERE

Yes I saw that just after posting and it has to be this. Thanks for posting

a reply to: macpdm
You know whats interesting here?
Had there not been a confirmed sighting of a meteor, you would have been told you'd seen a chinese lantern or birds or swamp gas, anything other than something strange.

originally posted by: VoidHawk
a reply to: macpdm
You know whats interesting here?
Had there not been a confirmed sighting of a meteor, you would have been told you'd seen a chinese lantern or birds or swamp gas, anything other than something strange.

Quite true and I was being so supportive asking her allsorts of questions to try and remove the possibility of it being a lantern. In truth I would have been fairly gutted had it been something strange as Im a believer and would have missed it

originally posted by: macpdm

originally posted by: VoidHawk
a reply to: macpdm
You know whats interesting here?
Had there not been a confirmed sighting of a meteor, you would have been told you'd seen a chinese lantern or birds or swamp gas, anything other than something strange.

as Im a believer

Have you ever seen anything? There's a VERY good vid in the op of my sigy link. Well worth a watch.

Here it is.

Yes I meant to thankyou as I am intending to watch it asap.

I have seen the odd thing in the night sky but I think stuff that might be explained away as a satellite or high flying aircraft. Have you ?