It was an encounter of the blurred kind after strange orange UFOs were filmed hovering above Shoreham.

Karel Mc'Chambell told The Argus he spotted the UFOs while he was watching television with his 14-year-old daughter Kayleigh.

The pair, who saw two of the pulsing lights near Shoreham power station, then spotted another four just hours later.

Mr Mc'Chambell, 57, of Hillfarm Way, Southwick, said his daughter filmed the spectacle as the objects flitted across the night sky.

He said: These lights appeared to change formation several times while my wife and I, with Kayleigh, watched the whole event.

“There was quite a lot of cloud in the night sky and it meant the lights tended to disappear from view.

“However they were bigger and brighter than stars, they did not make any kind of sound and did not fly like any type of aircraft we usually get overhead from the Shoreham Airport.”

The father-of-one also said his computer reacted “strangely” while the lights were close by between Saturday at 11.10pm and 11.30pm.

He added: “My computer was running at the time and when I returned to it, it kept repeatedly loading and reloading the Google website at speed.

“This is something which has never happened before. Then without reason it stopped and returned to normal.”

Mr Mc'Chambell phoned Sussex Police at 11.40pm and told them what he had seen.

They told him to phone the Aeronautical Information System so they could check which aircraft were flying over Southwick at the time he saw the lights. He was also told to contact the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

He said: “I have lived here since 1984 and it is the first time I have ever seen anything like this.

“I spoke to some of the neighbours the next day but they had all gone to bed early and had not seen anything.”

A Sussex Police spokesman confirmed the lights had been reported to the police on Saturday night.

He said: “There was a report of bright orange lights which were growing larger and which changed in formation.”

It is not the first time bright orange lights and strange objects have been spotted in the Sussex sky at night.

In 2009, there were 11 reported sightings of UFOs in Sussex, according to the MoD.

The biggest year for sightings in Sussex was 1999, when 14 separate reports were recorded, but in 2006 there were just four reported sightings.

A similar sighting of seven bright orange was seen on May 30 over Dover by three people.

It was reported on the world UFO blogging website.

Witnesses reported seeing an orange ball in the sky travelling steady then dropping. Within minutes another appeared following the same path..