: skip to main skip to sidebar Sunday , September 23, 2012 Pale Green Colored Object With Sparks Flying Off It Seen Over Bacup UK Date : nbsp September 21, 2012 Time : nbsp Approx : 11:00 . p.m I've just seen something very similar over Bacup tonight , about 11:00 p.m . I thought it was a police helicopter at first , with the searchlight on . It looked to be a few hundred feet up , then as I realized I couldn't hear anything I realized it looked nothing like a helicopter . Pale green light like old gaslights with orange sparks coming out of it So , realizing November 5th isn't far off , so I assumed it was a firework , but the more I looked I realized it was behaving all wrong . Travelling horizontally east to west and too slowly for a rocket . Sparks looked comedic , like 50s Flash Gordon