No viewing aids necessary. At least 7, very slightly elliptical, individual, bright reddish orange, U.F.O. lights rather low down to the ground. If it was an aeroplane I would have guessed they would be between 1 and 2 thousand feet up, in the Timaru south night sky. I was at the Railway Station when I viewing in a southerly direction, at approximately 2020 pm Saturday evening, May the 19th 2012. Traveling north along the south beach toward town. Without any reference point to measure the size or distance or speed of travel, all approaching in a single file, quite quickly, silently, i.e. same flight path. All stopping in mid-air, at the same point, I’m guessing at the beginning of the south end of town. At this point their single lights quickly faded completely out in 2 to 3 seconds. Between the first and last light would have been possibly 8 to 9 minutes in duration. With 2 cell phones at my disposal I rang my wife at the north end of town who was unable to witness this due to the low position of their flight path. And with the other cell phone I rang the Police Watchhouse and asked the duty officer to look due east of the police station for these lights low in the sky over the south beach. The Policeman took little time before confirming my sighting. At one period of time there were two lights in view at the same time, one following the other. I’m not sure whether it was the last reddish orange light or the second last but one of them delivered a large, very bright, bluish white pod as opposed to a beam of light down, in a slight curve direction to the ground or ocean. This took no more than one second on the clock.

Hey farmers, They are just kites with LED lights on it. Can be switched off and blinks, with green, red, blue and white colors… Wind in the air can rotate the kite in the air and kites can be still in the air….

Got home tonight from a day in Hanmer and was unpacking the car when I noticed 3 orange lights traveling in a line from a nor-easterly direction. At first I thought they were just lanes as I live close to the airport. But they seemed to be traveling faster than a plane would be and there were no blinking lights to indicate port and starboard wingtips.

As I continued to watch them, more appeared behind them, traveling in the same direction. I called my family outside and they all saw them too. They made no discernible noise as they travelled straight over our house heading toward the south-west. In all there must have been 10-12 of these lights. They took approx 5-8 mins to travel from one horizon to the other and out of sight again!!

Would love to know what they actually were!!

Did anybody else see the bright and very fast green light shoot through the sky heading SW at 6.15pm over Cromwell? Looked like a shooting star, only started then stopped and was extremely fast and green, possibly from the setting sun. Very weird.

just saw a bright red light in sky south east christchurch we looked at it four about 20 mins it was moving very slow then just flashed and disaperd . did any one see it ?

I live in surprise az and the last two night I have seen strange lights in the sky. Myself an dmy two daughter had to run to the store and we saw them in the sky. Tonight I left my house and I saw them again, I live futher out saw we dont have street light on our roads. You can see very clearly and I havent seen anything like this since i was a teenager and i witnessed the lights above phoenix