We were looking at our garden from our conservatory at approximately 10.50pm when we saw a large bright red / orange light which appeared to have a shape in the sky to the se of our house. we estimate the light would have been over se northumberland and was large. the shape of the object was long but kind of had an oblong / circle iwithin it. it was partly hidden by cloud so we can not be too sure. however, it was very large and we are surprissed there has been nothing reported in the local media today about. we watched for approximately two minutes and attempted to take a photo but the object (?) was too far away and did not come out on camera phone. it appeared to shine a light in the direction of the coast before fading away. we are really not sure what we saw and given it was ve day celebrations (fireworks) and the object was close to a flight path into our local airport (though limited aeroplanes at the moment) there maybe some rational explanation. this is the second phenomenon we have seen from our garden in the past couple of years - and as the first it was certainly out of the ordinary and we would welcome any rational explanation!!