A COUPLE from Barry are creating an ‘X-Files’ stir with a video they shot last month of mysterious lights in the evening sky above Dow Corning. Steve and Gill Ryan have no explanation for the strange sight they witnessed as they returned home to the town one night from a visit to their daughter who lives in Caerphilly. Steve told The GEM: “It was a Wednesday night, just after 8pm, and we were making our way back through Barry. “We got off the Docks Link road, drove past Lidl store and went through Cadoxton. “As we came to the hill with Victoria Park on your left and the junior school on your right we saw two brilliant lights in the sky – we knew they couldn’t be stars, they were far too big. “We drove down Vere Street and at the bottom turned left and went under Cadoxton railway bridge.” The couple parked on the far side of the roundabout just through the bridge, on Cardiff Road, and saw the two lights in the sky straight ahead (Dow Corning lights can be seen on the video to the left). Steve said: “The lights were static in the sky, and then moved slowly. I’d describe them as brilliant orbs.” Gill quickly got her Samsung mobile phone out to record the sight. She said: “I put it on maximum zoom and trained it on the lights. “They definitely were not from an aeroplane or a helicopter. There was no sound and from that distance we would have heard something.” The couple’s son Jack, aged five, and granddaughter, Caitlin, aged two, were very excited by the lights, but grandson Kaiden, aged one, slept blissfully through the commotion. The video lasts about two minutes. At first the lights are stationary, they then move lower in the sky. One light disappears and then reappears. At one minute 45 seconds into the video a rather strange thing happens: three black objects seem to be shot out from one of the orbs, the first hundreds of feet into the air! Steve and Gill don’t have a rational explanation, and replaying the image on the computers at The GEM hasn’t resolved the mystery. Do you have an explanation? If so email us at ggem@internet-today.co.uk

Video of ‘brilliant orbs’ in the evening sky has a mystery sting in the tail - Friday, 08/May/2009