At about 8:45pm tonight I was outside and looked up at the night sky to see what seemed to be a parachute flare let off by someone near by. Watching and waiting for it to fall it just looked to be floating for a while. It had a bight orange glow and I would estimate it was less than 2kms from my place in the northern suburbs. It was moving away toward the north with an inclination of about 10 degrees.
I called the wife to come and have a look at it. Then it appeared to accelerate away into the distance. We looked on Google for 'Orange lights in the sky' and f@#$ me - the it was in a few other countries around the world.
Now, I couldn't have been the only one who saw this. The other thing I noticed is that the was no sound. I thought maybe a chopper or light aircraft - but no sound being that close. Did anyone else see it?
Freaky!!