"AMAZING footage" has been taken of several unidentified flying objects circling in the skies over Abergavenny and shooting apparent beams of light.

Eagle eyed residents in Cantref Road captured the lights, which seem to form a triangle shaped before launching red and white 'beams of light.'

The man who captured the two minute piece on his mobile phone, who does not wish to be named, said, "On August 2 at about 1am I was about to shut the window before retiring for the night when I noticed some odd looking lights in the sky."

His curiosity aroused, he took his mobile phone and went to the back garden.

"I succeeded in getting some amazing pictures. I would guess the lights were to the north east of Abergavenny and he was looking up at about 40 to 45 degrees to the ground.

"There are only seconds of pictures but I find them very exciting. The camera was not very steady and I zoomed in and out a few times trying to get clearer pictures so it does jump about a bit. There are also some stars visible but they were very faint.

"I was just amazed by it, the way they move and the beams of light. It just doesn't seem like lanterns or anything that could be explained."

Malcolm Robinson, founder of Strange Phenomena Investigations (1979) has looked at the footage.

He says, "I would like to speak to the witness and then do a proper investigation. However, based on what I have seen, the footage may show a bright star the movements of the star are only the camera shake of the person filming it. The footage may show a commercial aircraft traversing the sky (again the camera shake making the squiggles in the sky. The footage may show that old favourite Chinese lantern sometimes called a 'Wish Balloon'. These have given rise to may false and misleading UFO reports over the UK in the past several months. It is so easy to mistake them for something else, in most cases UFOs. 

"Now obviously the witness would never film something which he felt was an aircraft or star so he must have felt that this was something very real and strange. But based on the footage I've seen, well it could be anything, certainly something of the above. Or maybe - just maybe - your man has indeed captured one of the five percent unexplained UFO reports that have been reported here in the UK over the past several years. 

"At the end of the day, UFOs are real but it is what they are or represent that is the question.  I've been working in this field for over 30 years and I am convinced that we are dealing with a very real and tangible phenomena. I would be very keen to hear of any similar reports from your readers and can be e-mailed at  [email protected]">[email protected]."

Pat Regan, North West UFO researcher is currently writing a book about UFO sightings and is requesting any information from local people.

He's examined the footage and said, "This seems to show a series on flickering white and orange lights, possibly six, in the dark Welsh sky.

"These lights appear to slowing vanish one by one, which may possibly indicate Chinese lanterns from some nearby celebration that are slowly extinguishing themselves. So far however this possibility remains unsubstantiated and I do know that not all suspected lantern sighting turn out to be such objects. We must keep an open mind! I have noted some that have moved against strong head winds, whilst others have purportedly kept pace with fast cars on tranquil nights. Lanterns are fragile things that cannot achieve wild such feats. I would like to know which way these latest unidentified objects were heading and what the wind direction was on that particular night in question. I also recall that the America UFO Hunter television team discredited, in June 2008, claims for lanterns over one significant sighting in Wales involving a police helicopter chase. One female witness, Amanda Berry, featured in the show had observed something strange in the Cardiff night's sky in June 2008.  The team intentionally released lanterns and the witness stated clearly that these were not the same thing she had seen being pursued by a police helicopter. The wind direction of that particular evening proved the any such fire lanterns released some miles further away could not have drifted into the same air space.

"I welcome further public sightings for possible inclusion in my forthcoming book - UFO. Visit http://www.ssgb.bravehost.com/north_west_ufo.htm">www.ssgb.bravehost.com/north_west_ufo.htm or e-mail [email protected]">[email protected]

A spokeswoman from the Ministry of Defence said there was no activity in the area at that time.

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