The first sightings were reported to occur on March 19, 2003 when unexplained lights were observed near Kirkuk by civilians and paramilitary forces.

Lt Col Halt's report referred to 'unexplained lights' and a strange glowing object that lit up the forest that surrounded the base, the paper said.

The spectacular and unexplained celestial lights vanished abruptly before dawn, scything away from the horizon like a burning blade.

The Hessdalen Light is an unexplained light usually seen in the Hessdalen valley in the municipality of Holtålen in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway.

There are several other types of unexplained lights observed in the Hessdalen valley.

But if there were unexplained lights, where were they coming from?

Min Min light - an unexplained light seen in central Australia.

Wagon trains on the Chihuahua Trail reported seeing unexplained lights in the mid 19th Century.

Orville considered himself a modern day version of Charles Fort, the nineteenth-century journalist who collected stories about odd happenings such as red snow, unexplained lights, or frogs falling from the sky.

Perhaps most significantly the witnesses also included several local policemen and a state trooper who saw and heard strange phenomena such as unexplained lights in the night sky and noises the same night.