'The truth is out there' ...on the Scroggy Road

The lady, who lives in the Limavady area, told the Sentinel of her shock at watching the unusual lights dance in the sky as she drove home from a relatives house on the Scroggy Road with her husband. The incident made such an impact on the local lady that she contacted a world wide UFO site to describe her experience. Preferring to remain anonymous, the woman described how she stopped her car just last month in disbelief as the array of orange lights danced in the sky. The couple were travelling along the road at around 10.30pm when the incident unfolded.

"Under no circumstances were these lights Chinese lanterns," she told the Sentinel, "I have seen Chinese lanterns and in no way can they move in the way these lights did the night we saw them.

"I had been driving with my husband when I could see these three bright, orange like balls in the sky. I stopped the car and could she one was just sitting still while the other two were dancing about, moving sharply from left to right. To be honest it scared the life out of me."

"I got speaking to a friend not that shortly after it who had said she had seen the same thing too, amend agreed with me that it they weren't lanterns. When I heard that we went onto the internet to try to get an explanation but there seems to be a lot of the same unexplainable sighting about. Surely somebody must know what they are?"

She continued: "They weren't shooting stars, they weren't comets. Someone has even said to me if was I sure it wasn't volcanic rock? But no this was something else, you had to see it to believe it. These things were massive, with no noise and moved sharply across the sky, as if they were following each other."

Hesitating to post her sighting, the local woman say she was compelled by the experience and wanted to share it with others.

"You know what people are like, they would say you are mad but myself and a number of there people saw them that night. There's bound to be a explanation to what they were."

Betty Meyler, President of the UFO Society of Ireland, says more and more UFO reportings are being made with the help of people wanting to come forward on the issue. Betty said: "I am getting more and more reports from the North regarding sightings and this sighting fits in with a lot I receive, it's more or less lights."

Betty continued: "The important thing here as well is that there was no noise, so this couldn't have been a helicopter or an aeroplane. Even a mild aeroplane or helicopter would give off sound.

"Unfortunately a lot of people do get scared when they witness a UFO sighting and this blame can be given to the big movie makers who give misleading representations on UFO's. From my knowledge they will come with light and love to help us."