What I saw wasn't a solid object. It was 2 connected thin beams of luminous colours (it was a long time ago, I think they were red and green). They shot straight down behind the hills. It happened very quickly and would have been between 11 and 12 at night. It was like you would see in a movie when a space ship would shoot a beam of light to the ground. But I didn't see the ship. There were clouds in the sky. It definitely wasn't lightning as the beams went perfectly straight to the ground, the colour was different. and the shape was totally different. Even though there were clouds it wasn't storm weather. It was very strange.