THEY'RE back! Cattlemen at a remote Northern Territory station say strange lights have reappeared in the night sky.

As reported on the Northern Territory News website, Ray Aylett first saw the weird flashing lights zipping above the farmhouse at Muckaty Station early last month.

Mr Aylett, the station's manager, said the lights returned on Friday night, stranger than ever.

"I went down the front to close the gate and you could see this light coming," he told the Northern Territory News..

"It was flashing from bright orange to red.

"It came at me and stopped, moved off to one side and then moved back.

"Then it went around in a circle and came straight towards me, this bright light.

"He came around and the light went really white.

"Then he did another circle and took off to the west."

Mr Aylett said it was the third time he had seen the strange lights in the past month.

He told the Northern Territory News he thought his fellow station workers would laugh at him when he told them what he had seen.

"I said 'I suppose you reckon I'm mad, you bastards', but they reckon they saw it too," he said.

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