A couple of Luton stargazers were left mystified when they spotted a series of bizarre bright lights hovering over the town.

John Kane and his partner Dora were in the garden of their High Town home shortly before 1am on Sunday, May 24, when they saw six or seven bright objects hovering in a circular motion with each one looking "as if it was rotating around itself".

The couple say that they were relatively large, very bright, and an "orangey" colour, and that the space in between them was equally distanced.

The circle slowly broke up and each of the bright objects started heading east toward Crawley Green, vanishing quickly like a light burning out, the couple said.

Dora told the Luton Today: "We tried to get our head around it, I was shocked by what I was looking at. My partner told me to look up and i thought maybe he was pointing out a full moon.

"We thought it might be a plane, but a plane doesn't stay static like that, or maybe that it was fireworks or a helicopter, but there wasn't any noise."

She said that upon her return to work after the bank holiday weekend, she mentioned the strange experience to a colleague, who said she too had seen the lights in the sky with a group of friends.

She said: "They had a debate all night about what it could be.

"Thank goodness there were two of us because I would've thought that I'd lost it."