[Brinty]

Yeah, my wife and I got as excited as hell about 40 years ago when we saw an extremely bright light in the sky out to sea. We were living in Manurewa, a town about 15 odd miles south of Auckland in New Zealand. We stopped the car and watched for about 5 minutes as it just hung in the sky. I'd read a few days before that the local council were installing flood lights at the local sports ground and we decided that that was what we were looking at. So we drove to the grounds but there were no lights installed yet. The penny dropped that they were aircraft landing lights when they were eventually close enough for us to see that there were two of them. I didn't realise that a 747 could fly so slowly or that the lights could be visible for such a length of time. All told, they must have been in sight for between 10 and 15 minutes appearing to just be hanging stationary in the air.