Mysterious white lights have been seen above the Fort William area at around the same time it emerged that glowing orange and yellow lights in the sky were reported around Inverness.

Anne MacDougall, a senior service point administration officer with Highland Council, was climbing steps to the garage at her home in Corpach when she witnessed the unexplained lights.

She said: "I've seen shooting stars in the past and this wasn't a shooting star. It was a long white light with a tail that seemed to peter out.

"It looked like it was going to fall down on the hill in the forest. I have never seen anything like it.

"It was the strangest feeling, but I was so lucky to see something like that.

"I was walking with a friend who lives in Corpach the following evening who told me her husband saw the same thing out of their living-room window.

"They have a big window and she said he nearly leapt out of the chair when he saw it."

The lights, also seen from other areas of Lochaber, appeared on April 17 around 10 o'clock.

Nicola MacColl was walking from the Lime Tree Restaurant in Fort William's West End to the Alexandra Hotel when she saw the phenomenon.

She said: "I am not sure if it was a shooting star, but it was very bright and white. If it was a meteor I wonder if any debris fell on the Highlands?"

Around the same time up in Inverness, widow Joan Morrison, of Towerhill Brae South, saw rectangular orange and yellow lights. She said they appeared to be glowing, floating past her kitchen window.

She said: "I'm not a science buff or anything like that but I just couldn't believe what I was seeing."

The RAF at Kinloss has said it had no aircraft operating in either Inverness or Lochaber at the time the lights were spotted.

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