I had a very strange experience on a rural shropshire lake. It was a clear moonless night and being away from any substancial source of borrowed light it was very dark and spooky.
Being a seasoned night angler though, I was more than used to this. If the night was mild as it was on this particular night, I quite often brought out my stove from my bivvy and sat by my rods for hours on end brewing tea and smoking far too many ciggys (regular ciggys before anyone gets any funny ideas) and generaly basking in the atmosphere of it all.
Suddenly an orb of light lifted above the trees that created my horizon, the light was round and fuzzy and didnt resemble anything I had previously witnessed. It rose straight up hovered for a split second and then decended straight back down. It was like watching a giant illuminated yo yo. I was shocked my mind was reeling did I realy see that? As if my mind had been read up it comes again, but this time it had a mate with it, they rose verticle much higher than previous, then one dropped slightly traveled horizontaly then both orbs of light decended once agin below the tree line. I can tell you I was totaly freaked at this point in time. No matter how much I considered what I had seen I couldnt think of a logical explination. It didnt end there either, the funny orb show carried on for quite some time perhaps an hour, and at one point in time there were perhaps half a dozen of these strange lights traveling in an unnatural manner.
The next morning I couldnt help but tell the farmer, I didnt care if he thought I was a crackpot, I knew what I had seen! "Oh yes" said the farmer "does look a bit funny if you dont know what it is" he pointed in the direction of where the orbs had been the previous night "thats RAF Shawburry over there, they do night manouvers in helicopters"
