It was about 11pm i had just finished teaching my tae kwon do classes & drove back to my flat with my then girlfriend as i parked up we got out the car & as i picked up my training kit from the boot i looked up to close the boot lid & saw these white & red lights in the sky quite low about 60-80 feet in air i stood on the pavement & said to julia what the hell is that she turned round & we watched the lights come towards us it came towards us very slowly (walking pace) it came towards us & as i stepped back because i thought it was going to land on me & it stopped about 25 feet up & 25 to 30 feet away, the discs shaped object was 30-40 feet in diameter, it had bright white lights around the circumferance equal distance apart & seven red lights in the middle of the disc but they were not uniform we stood there for a bout 2 minutes as it hovered above us then it slowly moved away julia looked at me & said come lets go in but i walked up the path as it went over the flats & watched it slowly disappear i was amazed at what i saw not frightened at all, we never spoke about it again until i rang her today to get permission to put her name forward as we have been apart this last seventeen years i never told anyone about this at the time because i was a senior tae kwon do instructor & thought i would be ridiculed but feel happy to talk about it now the event took place @1996