The sighting of strange lights above Wrexham has sparked a massive debate as to whether the UFO claims are genuine or an elaborate hoax.Possible explanations are being put forward to identify the flying objects.
Residents in Borras Park reported sightings of seven red lights in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Lynn Jones, 32, recorded one of the lights, which is now on the Leader website.
Residents from Borras, Gwersyllt, Caergwrle and Acton said they also saw the lights and cannot explain them.
Readers have posted comments suggesting the shape was a cigarette end or a street light. One person believes the video was staged with a lazer pen on a black carpet.
Another Borras resident said they could remember a series of UFO sightings over Borras Airfield 20 years ago, mentioning they had seen green lights similar to the ones in the video over the by-pass a year ago.
A worker from Acton, who posted a comment on our website, said: "I am a patrol and response officer for the wrexham area and saw these lights while I was attending an alarm call at Acton school.
"These, to my belief, are unexplained. There is no way this was a hoax, as I would not have seen them from Acton area if they were.
"In addition, they were very high up in the air and there's no way anyone can control anything from that distance.
"There were several 'floating' in the sky in a pack, at first I thought they were helicopters or similar, however there was no sound what so ever! Very strange and I would identify these as an unidentified flying objects. (Not saying they were aliens but definitely unexplainable)"
Another visitor to our site also mentioned a sighting had been made in Strattford Upon Avon earlier on the same day.
Russell Callaghan, editor of UFO DATA Magazine, said: "They are probably paper lanterns or homemade air balloons. There is no control over their flight and they are quite dangerous.
"The speed could be explained by them blowing on the wind.
"They are often tied together in groups, which explains them moving around each other and travelling at the same speed.
"The orange glow gives it away. There are reports week in week out somewhere in the country.
"On the video we see one out of focus blob of light 'orange' and like the web comments suggest it could be street light orange or cigarette, personally I'll stand by my original suggestion this was a paper flying lantern.
"There are many strange events on record associated with the UFO subject and many that warrant serious research, unfortunately this is not one of those.
Wrexham UFO Debate
Wrexham UFO Debate
