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Hi Barry Thanks for your very detailed reply. I'll have a chat with my uncle re: the possibility of drones, he's a bit of an expert... but even that doesn't seem to fit. I'll just consider myself to be quite lucky to have seen what we did and maybe one day it will become clear.

Thanks for your replies. Barry... It was a very quiet, warm and still night with very little if any noise around us. No engine noise. No flashing/navigation lights. They were about the same brightness/size as an average star. They ‘appeared’ to be very far away, I could probably have covered the perfect circular movement they made with an out stretched thumb or two. Both times they approached head on, stopped dead and went into the circular movement, headed off at different angles. The first pair appeared, did their thing, I was quite animated and swearing, much to my daughter’s surprise (!) not something I usually do ! and then they disappeared, my wife and daughter didn’t see it but as I was pointing in the direction the second pair came along and did the same or similar movements, so no more than a minute in total. I’m perhaps thinking drones now but they were way out and very high to the right of the brightest star in that direction (Deneb I think) and below us and them was probably 70 miles (?) of sea looking towards Devon. It was quite amazing. The movements were nothing I’ve ever seen before.

Update: Using a night sky app I’ve just rewound back to Sat 17 July 11:15pm and worked out that the sighting occurred to the right of the constellation of Cygnus, that bright star I mentioned being Deneb... I think!

Hi Complete newbie question here. I joined simply in hope that someone might be able to explain the following? We were camping in Pembrokeshire UK on Saturday night. My wife , daughter and I had been watching satellites cross the night sky. At about 11.15pm I spotted 2 white lights the same size as an average star heading towards each other at a similar speed to a satellite at about 146 degrees SE quite close to the brightest star in that direction and height. They stopped short of meeting and then spun in unison in a perfect circular motion, perhaps two full 360 degree turns, and then headed off in different directions. My wife and daughter didn’t see it but as I was explaining and pointing in the direction another 2 lights came along and did the same movements. I’ve never seen anything quite like it and I’m hoping someone here might be able to give an explanation please? Many thanks, Chris