SIR: I would dearly love to know if any of your readers saw a very bright light over Rivington on Wednesday, June 18.

When looking through the kitchen window at around 11.45pm, I saw a very bright object which seemed to be hanging in the sky over the Pigeon Tower. My first thought was the police helicopter, but it was much too bright for that. My wife was upstairs at the time and when I ran up to tell her, she just couldn't believe what she was seeing.

Looking through the binoculars, we saw two extremely bright lights which lit up the sky in the surrounding area.

One was a large light with a smaller light beneath it.

We watched for about half an hour but they never moved from that same position. Wondering in anyone else had seen this, I mentioned it at work the following morning to which a colleague replied: "Yes", a friend of my wife had seen the same at around 10.30pm while looking through her bedroom window in Adlington and she was very alarmed at the time."

Mr J Mullin

Hillside Avenue, Blackrod

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