A woman living in the Bower Drive area of Minnigaff had reported seeing several lights high in the sky, some close together and more later.
She claimed they had followed the same flight path and then disappeared behind clouds, all of this happening between 10pm and midnight.
But Judith Villa contacted us to report that she had been at a retirement party in Creebridge House Hotel, Minnigaff, at about the same time when members of the party released five Chinese lanterns, readily available at nearby shops, which floated in the sky for some time.
She said: "I'm not sure if it was the same date as the woman in the report said but we certainly let off the lanterns at roughly the same time she remembered.
"I wonder if that's what she saw? We had to wait until it was very dark, so it was quite late."
However, a report from a Whithorn woman this week backs up the original witness's claim after she spotted unidentified lights over the sea near her home.
She said that on several occasions she has noticed lights following each other across the night sky before shooting off at speed: "I love to look out over the dark sky when I'm in my kitchen waiting for the kettle to boil. I often spot these lights but there's no noise and there's always a few beside each other, so they can't be planes. I would describe them exactly as the other lady did - rounded at one end and tailing off at the other."
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She added: "I wondered if it would be something over at Auchenlarie."
Kelvin Bell, of Newton Stewart, saw something similar.
He said: "I also saw four strange lights in the sky on Friday, June 25, at around 11.10pm. I caught something out of the corner of my eye through the window. I stood up to get a better look and there where four red/orange lights coming from over the woods above the golf course. I live in a third floor flat and have great view over the years over the hills and past the church spire.
"The lights continued in a straight line until they where level with the church spire but behind it and some distance away over the hills. They seemed to hover for a short while and then they shot straight up into the air. I have never seen anything move as fast or like this before."
Dumfries and Galloway has been a hotspot for UFO sightings over the years and although the area is popular with military operations, the two have rarely coincided.
Robert Thorne, a keen UFO spotter who lives near Barrhill, said that while the sightings could have been Chinese lanterns, he doesn't believe it would explain all the lights.
He said: "I've followed UFO sightings for a while and have compared these lanterns to sightings of other UFOs. Some can be clearly distinguished but others are simply something else altogether.
"Lanterns tend to be bag-shaped and tall at the top but these recent sightings were described as rounded at the front with a tail. I think it would be all-too-easy to put every sighting from now on down to Chinese lanterns when, in fact, they aren't!"
Robin Bellerby of Wigtown-shire Astronomical Society said: "Many are made-up 'sightings', but most are attempts at making Chinese lanterns, featured in many news and TV articles during the last year.
"The explanation for 'shooting off at speed' is that they rise fairly gradually, glowing with the internal fire source, which is usually a candle or spirit burner, drifting in the wind, and then hit a higher wind 'current' or thermal and are carried either sideways or upwards.
"No comet would fit this description, neither would any asteroid, or meteor."
He added: "Making Chinese lanterns can be fun but there is a huge fire risk in this area.
"All need a heat source to provide lift, and sometimes they come down with this source still alight, or even with the fabric on fire - the danger inherent in this should be obvious."
A woman in the Corvisel Road area of Newton Stewart was called outside by her husband on Wednesday night after he spotted a red, flashing object in the sky.
She told us it came from the Blairmount area and proceeded towards Creetown and said her husband described it as having constant green flashing lights.
She said: "We don't think it was a plane because it doesn't have constant flashing and this made no noise. My husband didn't think it was high up enough to be a plane, either."