5 orange lights all moving very, very slowly, first in a row, then above each other, then below, then back in a row..and you'll tell yourself that they're just planes stacking up for Exeter Airport, but then you'll notice that there are no landing lights showing on any of them, unlike the plane that has just whizzed past in front of them...and you'll pull over in Ottery St. Mary car park, get out and watch those five orange stars suddenly rise higher and higher, faster and faster, all at exactly the same time, until they become the tiniest of dots..and then they'll just disappear all together from the naked eye..

Lizzie - I've seen any amount of such lights in the skies these last few nights - they are, of course, Chinese Lanterns. We watched a formation of 8 earlier on doing pretrty much what you describe above.