So far this seems like a pretty good sighting... I'm thinking cigar or cylindrical, perhaps a "worm/tube' sighting, but the cylinder seems most
accurate. Maybe a balloon, I'm hoping not.
One might notice that the great majority of "cigar" and many "worm" sightings seem to have "tilt" or non-perpendicularity to the surface of the
Earth as oppossed to saucer "hovering sessions" which more often seem to be trying to stabilize themselves parallel to the surface of the Earth.
Ahtze: Well done! While it is fresh in your mind maybe check out some more other sightings and see if yours was like some others? Here's a link to
some selected cases of cigar-shaped:
www.ufoevidence.org... I know you eyes saw way more than pics can tell...
I agree that many of these sightings are from the UK. There is a more or less recent cylinder sighting in North America from Arizona:
www.hbccufo.org...
Sometimes the"worms" or jointed spheres appear as a straight-ish cylinder, too. Ahtze's account will tell us much.
Thanx to Ahtze

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Vic
[edit on 8-4-2007 by V Kaminski]