Click on the green play button to see amazing video footage of the lights.

Emails and phone calls flooded in to the Herald newsdesk from confused residents who watched in amazement as up to 21 orange ball-like lights moved across the night sky over the area below cloud level from around 10.30pm on Saturday, July 25.

Worthing Cricket Club star Danny Barton watched stunned from his Petworth Avenue home as the lights flew by, before rushing down to the seafront with a camera.

Never seen anything like it

"I've never seen anything like it in all my life," said Mr Barton.

"They were so bright and so close to the house.

"That's why I was so convinced there was something weird going on.

"When I drove down the beach, I got just past the line of trees and one had come along about six foot off the ground.

"As soon as it got near the trees, it was like it was controlled, it lifted over the trees and carried on up."

Mr Barton then filmed some of the lights with his camera phone before discussing the phenomenon with some passing, and equally confused, police officers.

Speeding light

Marc Baldwin, 27, from Goring Road, filmed the lights from the front window of his lounge.

His footage clearly shows a number of the lights drifting across the Goring area.

But he admitted he was staggered to catch on film the amazing sight of one light speeding across the sky, stopping suddenly, moving slightly, then darting away.

"You try to think of any explanation for it," said Mr Baldwin.

"After I saw the one dart across the sky, I thought there's nothing that can do that.

"No plane could do that. No helicopter could do that.

"I would like to see if there is an explanation. I haven't a clue what it is."

Suggested explanations for the lights include Chinese lanterns, slow moving aircraft or some kind of light display from the Worthing Festival.

David Crossley, 58, from Nutley Crescent, said: "It was actually incredible.

"It's not a little green man, I know that, I just don't know what it is.

"I've relatively got my own marbles and don't drink that much."

UFO experts said record numbers of people nationwide reported sightings over the weekend.

What do you think?

Did you see the lights on Saturday?

What did you think they looked like?

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