Following our reports of the sightings, Gavin Bagshaw, of Northallerton, emailed to say that he and his family saw similar objects in the sky on the night of August 9.

"It was at 9.55pm and we were driving down Harewood Lane in Northallerton and we saw three orange orbs hanging in the sky that were in a triangle shape which then moved into a horizontal line. I stopped the car and my wife, two teenage daughters and myself watched the lights for a few minutes before they moved off," said Mr Bagshaw.

"We then drove to our house which is about 500 yards away and we saw the same lights ahead of us that were moving very slowly in an eastwardly direction. We watched the lights for several minutes before they disappeared behind cloud in the distance.

"We could not hear any noise from the objects as you would expect to do with the jet aircraft that fly over our house after take off from Leeming."