It was spotted quickly, not looking for it, we all saw the same. It had two balls of light, diagonal shaft of light attaching them. It moved across the horizon from West to East.It was approximately 40` above the horizon. Both spots of light travelled at identical speed, and had exact position of balls of lights remain at the same diagonal position to each other as they moved. At the time they were the brightest thing in the sky. There was no sound. We do have a flight path above our island, and therefore realise that this was definitely not a plane. We observed it for approximately 15 seconds whilst the light got weaker and orange then red until it disappeared. The shaft of light disappeared five seconds before the two balls of light. It was approximately 9.45pm on 29th December 1999.