SPINNING LIGHTS SCARE ENGLISH TEEN DRIVER
(Original headline: Strange lights give driver a fright )

A Suffolk teenager got the fright of her life when her car was chased by
floating lights as she drove across the Orwell Bridge.

The 18-year-old, who has asked not to be named, was driving home to
Saxmundham from Bury St Edmunds at about 4am on Saturday, August 26.
As she drove over the Orwell Bridge she saw two spinning lights about 12
feet ahead of her.
They remained in front of the car as she drove, and worried her so much
that she was distracted and missed the A12 turning at Seven Hills.

She said: "I carried on to Felixstowe and the lights stayed with me
until I turned around at the Trimley roundabout. I've never been so
scared."
The teenager said they hovered above her windscreen and were a dull
colour, not shining particularly brightly.
She added: "They definitely seemed to be staying with the car."

The motorist had not realised anyone else had seen the lights until she
saw a letter in The Evening Star last Friday.
She said: "It sounded very like what I saw. I have no idea what they
were, they really spooked me."

She was on her own the car and was very relieved to reach home in
Saxmundham.
Last week Heidi Garwood of Fletcher Road in Ipswich wrote a letter to
say that her father had seen some mysterious lights in the Nacton Road
area of the town at about 4.30am on the same day - and she had heard
similar stories from other people in the area.

The sightings come more than a quarter of a century after east Suffolk
was at the heart of one of Britain's biggest UFO mysteries after US
servicemen reported strange lights in the sky near USAF Woodbridge
during the Christmas period in 1980.

.:Story originally published by:.
Evening Star Suffolk / England