EERIE lights photographed above Newport led one resident to think the city might need its own X-file.
Mark Holmes, 48, of Stanford Road, was walking his girlfriend home on Saturday night when they suddenly saw a series of glowing orange orbs fill the sky.
Mr Holmes said: "It was about midnight and we were cutting across a field to get to my girlfriend's house on Dowland Close.
"The sky was quite clear and suddenly these large orange lights appeared.
"There were about eight of them just floatng across the sky.
"They were huge and moving around and they looked like they were on fire."
And although the quick-thinking Mr Holmes managed to record some footage of the bizarre objects, he said after about a minute, they just disappeared.
"It was really weird," he said.
"We just couldn't believe it."
He said the lights seemed quite far away and estimated the orbs were about a metre wide.
He is convinced the lights were not fireworks or streetlamps.
But he said: "I still have no idea what they could have been. It was really spooky."
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