A READER wrote to the Guardian on Sunday to report a sighting of an orange fireball-like object in the sky above Knutsford.

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Dear Sirs, Last night - Saturday 27th June 2009 - while walking home from visiting friends, my son, partner and myself saw a strange object in the sky above Knutsford. Although we are used to seeing planes flying over us regularly, this was not a plane!

It was like an orange red fireball and at the height it must have been, was much larger than a plane, it travelled at great speed for what would have been several miles (at that height) and then hovered over Knutsford for several minutes before gradually gettting smaller and then disappearing. This was just after 11pm. While we were watching we heard voices behind us and 2 other people who had walked in the same direction arrived. We pointed out the light and both of these people also saw the same light.

There was no 'tail' attached so it could not have been a comet.

If it was a satellite then why did it stop and then disappear upwards?

Do you have any idea or explanation as to what this may have been?

Has anyone else reported seeing a strange light in the sky?

Thanking you in anticipation of a reply.

Yours Mrs M Randles (Knutsford - Cheshire)