The mystery "orange fireball" spotted in the skies above Nairn sounds similar to other strange objects reported to the Highland News recently.

And it comes as the Ministry of Defence last week released its full archive of reported UFO sightings - after being inundated with Freedom of Information requests.

The latest sighting describes how the person was travelling home from Aberdeen approaching the eastern edge of Nairn on February 14 when he spotted an orange glowing light in the sky.

The anonymous blogger said: "I looked a few times and just instantly thought it was extremely weird. I turned up the Grantown road to try to get closer and, once on the dark country road, I cut my engine.

"In darkness I opened my door and lifted myself to the top of my van and just observed in quiet amazement what I was seeing - an orange fireball-like object travelling in a perfect line north-north-east, complete silence, no engines, no rotors, no nothing, but this amazing orange fireball object.

"The object went behind a cloud and I didn't see it again."

The blogger continued: "I checked the internet to see if it was on the news or something and I cannot believe the amount of exact same sightings on the internet.

"It is definitely not a Chinese lantern, nothing even like it. The orange flame-like light remained even throughout the object and flew at speed."

Similar sightings were reported the same evening in Airdrie, Dundee, Manchester, Nottingham and Northamptonshire.

The blogger said the sighting was reported to Nairn police station. However, police at Nairn said they had no record of a UFO sighting on that date.

Could the reported flying orange lights be caused by aliens - or is there a more earthly explanation?

Brian Vike, of British Columbia in Canada - whose website The Vike Factor received the report of the Nairn sighting, told the Highland News: "I made a good name for myself in the UFO field as witnesses could call me, write to me knowing what they had to report would be taken seriously.

"But I kept my feet planted on earth. In other words, I don't get carried away with some of the stories that get told to me."

Brian has featured on TV documentaries and radio shows all over the world, including on the BBC.

Last year the Highland News received several reports of UFO sightings.

Joan Morrison, of Towerhill Brae South, Inverness, saw a glowing orange and yellow rectangular light passing her kitchen window on April 17.

The same evening, Anne Macdougall, a service point administration officer, reported a similar unexplained sighting outside her home in Corpach.

Black Isle woman Billie Wealleans reported seeing UFOs on December 29, 2008. An Alness man later suggested it may have been Chinese lanterns that he set off into the night sky that evening, but Mrs Wealleans ruled this out because the lights she had seen had remained close together.

"It does have its serious side," she said. "If there is something other than balloons or lanterns, we should be told."

RAF Kinloss had no reports of any unusual activity on the night of February 14.

d.wilson@highland-news.co.uk

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