SUF-CSE-023-060908

Title: Pink lights
Date: 06/09/08
Time: 21:40pm.
Duration: 5 minutes.
Location: Malmsbury, Wiltshire
Size (Compared to full moon): Small
Behavior: Stationary for most of viewing time
Colour: Pink
Odour: None
Noise: None
Animal Behavour: None
No of Witnesses: None

Description:
We were driving back from the Rattlebone inn in Sherston towards Swindon at 9:40 on the 6th September 2008.
As we were nearing Malmesbury we first noticed three pink lights in the sky. At first we thought they were just bright stars but as it was a cloudy night we realised that they weren't.
As we got a little closer, we came to a bend in the road and pulled over into a side road. We now had a full veiw of the lights with no obstacles in the way.
There were now five pink lights in the shape of a triangle. None of them flashed or flickered. They were just hanging motionless in the sky, none moved for a few minutes or so.
There were no sounds of any kind. The two lights at the base of the triangle suddenly flickered and dimmed at the exact same time. They then vanished all together leaving three lights.
The light to the right of the formation then suddenly rose upwards quickly and then stopped without even slowing down, it paused for a moment and then shot horizontally across to the left stopping instantly once again just above what was the highest of the three lights. It paused once again and then slowly lowered itself onto the light beneath it merging into one. The light didn't glow any brighter.
There were now two lights left. They just hung there motionless once again. We watched for maybe five minutes all together. We got back into the car and drove towards them. As our veiw was blocked by a tree line we lost sight of them all together.
I have kept an open mind about so called UFO's but this was very strange. The objects were not aircraft as one of them performed a movement that an aircraft or helicopter couldn't do.
These things were very bright and big. Other people must of seen them.

Investigation:
A similar report of five pink lights on a different date can be read here: http://www.ufomagazine.co.uk/ufosite/ufo-magazine-forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1445&PID=13986#13986

The first thing that comes to mind are flares (Strontium would induce pink colour). I have written to the military to request any use of flares on the date of this sighting and on the date of the forum post link above. I will not get an answer at least until the 22nd of October.