bright orange lights seen at kelloe, county durham

We saw a large bright orange light over the tree line of the woods near to us. It looked as if it was quite nearby but difficult to tell. This then split into two orange lights, then into about 6 slightly less bright orange lights in a perfect horizontal line. The lights then came back together into one bright light again and disappeared as if it was sucked away on the spot, getting dimmer iluntil it eventually disappeared. Similar happenings were reported by the same man I was walking with just two nights earlier but on this occasion stayed for nearly one hour, moved across the sky and back and changed colour from orange, blue and white. He says they were in the exact same place as the ones we witnessed tonight