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Thanks everyone for your fast replies, i didn't have binoculars with me at the time, so they were probably chinese fire lanterns.
Thanks again.

I don't think that they were because it wasn't windy and it looked like they were on fire. They weren't floating as a balloon would.

I don't think they were chinese lanterns, because my little brother and dad were a while away from me and my mum, and they saw four orange glowing balls that seemed to stop and hover before moving away. This occured at about the same time, and someone who was with them told them that the same kind o...

My mum and I saw two maybe three glowing balls, slow moving in the sky at 11pm. The glowing balls were possibly on fire, but we are not sure, and they made no sound. They seemed to change direction randomly, and just dissapeared over the houses. This happened on Saturday 18th July 2009. This occured...