“We too, have seen these strange lights over the bay ! The first was about 2 weeks ago when one of my sons ( a complete sceptic) called & said he had seen a strange orange light hovering in the sky. Then last Sunday, I went into my garden for a bit of fresh air & noticed an orange light in the sky. Tonight about an hour ago, my eldest son was in bed & then shouted, 'Oh my God, look at this in the sky!' The whole family ran to the window or outside (5 of us) & saw 3 orangre lights in the sky. The lights went off in different directions & my husband who was looking out of the top window watched the last light dissapear over the houses in the direction of Barton. We live in Babbacombe. I am sure that many others must of seen these lights. Haven't got a clue what they are, but would be good to find out.”

“On Sunday evening, my partner Daren and myself arranged to switch on our Christmas lights. Friends and neighbours gathered in Whiteway Road to see this and enjoy some mulled wine and sausage rolls. We also lit 12 coloured lanterns at approximately 6:15pm. As John Rayner reported, they followed each other high into the sky. The Newton Abbot lady was quite right, one lantern did break away from the group and then drifted back to the others. They continued in the direction of Exeter and lasted approximately 10-15 minutes in total. The lanterns were different colours, not the usual white. So I can assure all your readers that they were not UFO's. We collected for the Devon Air Ambulance and due to the generosity of all those who attended and those who have given since, we raised approximately £75 and we would like to take this opportunity of thanking everyone. The lights are at 29 Whiteway Road and we have a collection box for donations towards this worthwhile charity.”

“I was awake about 4-5am and outside smoking for a long time, but this was summer 2007. I saw a large bright orange light in the sky just sitting there, kept looking to see if it moved but it seemed stationary high in the sky. To the left, from Torquay were another three bright orange lights smaller than the large stationary light, but all the same size and all moving in a line, a bit spaced apart slowly, silently towards the larger light. Was strane to watch, will not forget, they were definately UFO's as I haven't got a clue what they could of been!”

“Just to pick up on the chinese lanterns theme. The objects we witnessed were definately NOT lanterns. They were bright orange not white and they all followed in the same flight direction (travelling on the wind, lanterns would have been dispersed quickly).”

“I have seen loads of chinese laterns released in Thailand and i know what they look like and what i saw was NOT chinese laterns! Unless someone had strung 15 to 20 together and could control them at low level in a circular motion and make them all disappear together?!”

“I can explain at least some of these sightings! I was at a wedding on Saturday night at the Imperial Hotel Torquay and at roughly 9.45 the bride and groom released around 12 massive, white chinese lanterns that burned very brightly. They flew off with the wind in the direction of the Osbourne Hotel and Wellswood. We watched them from the back of the hotel and they flew off very high into the sky and could clearly be seen!
We were laughing about the fact that there may well be reports of UFO sightings...”

“Forgot to say when! This was last night (07/08/08) Sorry i am still a bit freaked out by it all !”

“I was driving northbound on the M5 last night at 11pm between junc 31 and junc 30 when i saw a large group of lights in a oval formation moving in a circular motion across the sky. It was a clear night and at first i thought it was a laser show but usually you can see the light beam source from the ground but there was none. This formation of lights rotated across the sky in front of me to the otherside of the motorway and then back again, it finally moved across again and then seemed to just fade and disappear and it could see it no more. I so wish i could have pulled over tried to film it! Did anyone else see this strange occurence??”

“We live in Tavistock and my Husband and I saw similar between 11pm and midnight on Wed 16th July in the South East of the region. We watched them for an hour but a neighbour said she had just come back from the Citadel in Plymouth where there had the Music Of The Night Concert with lasers!! The only thing was - the lights which looked like orange circles were above the clouds and we thought the lasers wouldn't have carried on displaying so late?! They seemed to move around in a circular formation and then meet together in the middle and then spread out again. It was weird and I've been searching my local newspaper for the last couple of weeks but can't see anything about them. Nobody else seemed to see them ha ha...”

“We were visiting Torquay (at a party) on Saturday night. At around 10pm, two bright orange lights were spotted travelling across the sky at around the same speed as a commercial airliner, several seconds apart. There was no noise or visible trail from the objects. Shortly after, more followed on the same flight path - a total of about 10. Then there were 2 black objects spotted (again travelling in the same direction). Many people saw them and none had any rational explanation. They were travelling too fast and too uniform to be lanterns and were far too bright.”