Do you see what I see? Sri Lankans see UFOs with ‘dazzling lights’ in the skies

Residents in several parts of Sri Lanka are reporting sightings of unidentified flying objects in the night skies with dazzling lights emanating from them.

Newsfirst television showed footage of the strange lights seen in the skies above Hambegamuwa in Thanamalwila in the eastern province at around 8.30 on Monday night. (See video below.)

Newsfirst also showed images captured on a mobile phone camera in the southern skies above Ambalanthota. Some residents reported seeing a beam of light emanating from one of the objects shown in the television footage. An unidentified light was also recorded on a mobile phone camera in the skies above Ihalayagoda from Gampaha which is in the western province.

Commander Shiras Jalaldeen of the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) in a move to allay fears reported that that no unidentified airborne craft had been picked up on radar. He said the SLAF is keeping a 24-hour vigil on the skies for the unidentified lights witnessed in several parts of the country recently.
UFOs with dazzling lights seen in Sri Lankan skies
Now this is an interesting theory. Chandana Jayaratne, an astronomer and a professor in astronomy at the Colombo University, reportedly dismissed such claims saying that the lights residents are seeing are emanating from Mars, as a result of a closer earth orbit.

So what say ye? Are these unidentified flying objects just “dazzling lights” emanating from Mars?

You be the judge of that.