A 16-year-old boy witnessed what appeared to be several yellow flashing lights hovering above the open field of Kampong Lumut Housing Development area on Tuesday morning and filmed the encounter on his mobile phone.
The suspicious yellow flashing lights dotting the bright sky of Lumut reportedly occurred for over 30 minutes between 6 and 7am, said the teen's father, Awg Zunadee bin Haji Rahman, 41.
The mysterious lights were first spotted by his 18-year-old daughter Dyg Saiiedatul Ilmie when she opened the back door of the kitchen and saw two unusual continuous yellow flashing objects stationary above the field.
She woke her brother, Awg Mohd Hafiz, up who took a video of the mysterious sighting using his Nokia 2680 mobile phone with 0.3 mega pixel camera.
Eventually, the whole family got up in time to witness the strange encounter from their home at the Kampong Lumut National Housing Development.
Awg Zunadee claimed there were initially few flashing lights forming a straight line and later numerous lights appeared, as many as 15, flashing on and off.
He said the yellow flashing lights appeared in a different formation and towards the end of the display, the unidentified flying objects (UFOs) appeared to form a diamond shape before the lights abruptly vanished.
He added that this was his second sighting at the area, which is about one and-a-half kilometres away from his home. His first encounter took place last year at the same spot when he saw a craft cruising slowly across the sky and towards the BLNG Lumut gas flare before it quickly vanished.
Awg Zunadee has been sceptical on the existence of extra terrestrial life but after the sighting on Tuesday, he is determined to get to the bottom of the strange encounter.
Two Belait commuters, who contacted the Borneo Bulletin, also confirmed they spotted the strange bright objects but they did not make any attempt to pull over and capture them on their mobile phones.
Meanwhile, Awg Hazarry bin Haji Ali Ahmad from the Astronomical Society of Brunei clarified that the sighting could possibly be a meteor shower as the International Meteor Organisation has confirmed that July 17-August 24 is the meteor shower season. And the meteor shower is due to reach its peak on August 12.
"The speeding meteor will usually break up due to the air and heat friction. This usually occurs about a few seconds. But this still does not explain the sighting which mysteriously occurred for over 30 minutes," he added.
The planet Venus is also at its brightest period and could be misidentified as a strange object, he noted.
Awg Hazarry stated that this is the first incident of strange sky sightings in Brunei he has received this year and recalled a similar sighting of a strange flying object in Kampong Manggis last year.
