Antony Benton, aged 35, of Leigh, and Alan Colis, 34, of Marnhull have been looking for UFOs every week for the past 15 years.
This week they said they had seen nine UFOs in the sky above Wingreen Hill near Donhead St Mary, glowing like luminous orange balls.
“This was my first encounter of this kind and it was fantastic. I’m really looking forward to seeing something again,” said Mr Benton.
He said the objects appeared at about 10.05pm, one by one, lighting up the sky.
They were bright orange lights that merged and collided with each other. He denied suggestions that they could be military craft.
“There is no way those objects were man-made. They didn’t twinkle like normal lights,” he said.
The two space-craft hunters said they also heard a jet and a helicopter go over shortly after the UFOs disappeared.
They said the planes were coming over from a Portland direction.
Mr Colis said: “The best bit was when a smaller light moved towards and into a larger one. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
“They were definitely not planes or helicopters, I could tell just from looking through my binoculars.’
UFO hunting has become an addictive hobby for the duo who hope to see more in the future.
They said they are now looking for crop-circles in the area in the belief that it is what the alleged alien spacecraft staff were doing.
Graham Birdsall Editor of UFO Magazine said: “This is an extremely intriguing siting. We have had scores of residents in the Lancashire and London areas reporting similar clusters of bright orange lights in the sky, even fishermen out at sea have spotted them.
“We will certainly be looking into this further.”
Multiple Orange Balls Seen In SW England Sky
A UFO-spotting duo claim they saw nine unidentified flying objects in the Dorset sky in one night.
[Original headline: UFO duo tell of the night of nine-lights]
Western Gazette, Somerset / England | Angela Henshall - July 12 2001
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