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A mum has captured the moment mysterious lights appeared in the sky above her home in the Midlands.

Thinking she had spotted a UFO Market trader Michele Bardsley, 35, grabbed her phone to film the strange reddish orbs after going to her back door for a cigarette.

The Solihull mum-of-three spent the next 40 minutes filming the bizarre phenomenon on her phone - only breaking off for a few seconds to put on her slippers when her feet got cold.

Michele, who lives on Laburnum Avenue, Kingshurst, told the Birmingham Mail : “I was painting upstairs then went to the back door for a cig.

“I looked up and there were these shapes, like orbs, in the sky.

“They didn’t look like stars, or planes or helicopters, they were just hanging there.

“I thought I’d had a few too many rum and cokes!

“I got my phone and zoomed in on them, I was there for about 20 minutes, my feet were freezing but I couldn’t come away.

“Eventually I had to come back inside for my slippers and fags, then I went back out and filmed another 20 minutes.

“I must have looked mad out there for so long just filming the sky but it was so strange I did not want to go inside.”

Michele captured the footage on January 10.

After spending nearly an hour in the garden she finally ended her skyward vigil.

The strange lights were gone the next morning. She added: “I want people to see it because I want to know what it was.

“We put it on the big TV screen and you can see all kinds of things happening, lights shooting off, appeared and disappearing.

“People must think I am mad, but I know what I saw.

“I am not saying it is aliens, but they are definitely UFOs, they were flying objects and I don’t know what they were.”