Alien lanterns

UFOs resembling "orange lights" which terrified a genteel West Country suburb could simply have been Chinese sky lanterns, it has emerged.

Revellers making their way home to Charlton Kings in Cheltenham spotted the unexplained luminous cylinders at the weekend.

But it has now been revealed that a nearby junior school had sent up a number of paper lanterns that evening to celebrate its centenary.

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