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- Special on Sky Lanterns
- UFO
- UK Sightings Persist, Lantern Theory Crumbles and UFOs Invade The Outback
- Sky lanterns spark UFO scare
- A groom sheds light on UFO sightings
- Glowing orange UFO caught on film
- UFO light show stuns crowds
- UFO explained: it was Chinese sky lanterns!
- NYE lanterns spark fake UFO sightings
- Family Claims UFO Sighting In St. Augustine
- Was It A UFO, Or Lanterns?
- Residents Report UFO Sightings
- Teenager’s party blamed for UFO mystery
- UK Surrey and Sussex - The lights in the sky
- UFOS Reported In NJ, March 2004
- Close Encounters Of The Jersey Kind?
- Mystery continues: More lights seen in Morris County night sky
- UFO Theory Debunked
- Mystery of the orange UFOs solved — or is it?
- Jolt Racket bug Zapper - Colors available
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Special on Sky Lanterns
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UFO
UFO ‘seen over M4 service area’
By Anna Roberts
3/ 7/2008
Police have confirmed they have received a report that a UFO was spotted in the skies above Berkshire.
Thames Valley Police were contacted by a concerned man who spotted the ‘flying saucer’ hovering above Chieveley services at junction 13 of the M4.
Reading Police spokesman Adam Fisher, when contacted by the Evening Post, confirmed officers had been told about the X-Files-style object.
He said: “We were called at 8.40am on Monday, June 30, by a man from London who reported seeing a UFO over the Chieveley area that morning. His details have been passed on to a body that specialises in that field.”
This is not the first time such objects have been glimpsed over the motorway. An official Ministry of Defence (MoD) report revealed in February 2007 a UFO was sighted over the Swindon section of the M4.
The report said: “An object fell from the sky. It had like a green halo around it. Was very bright.”
In the past, according to figures released by the MoD, flying saucers have also been glimpsed over Woodley, Arborfield and Reading.
Bizarrely, nearby Wokingham appears to be something of a hotbed for UFO sightings. In the past 10 years there have been numerous sightings of UFOs in the skies above the town.
Michael Soper, who is in his 60s, has been investigating flying saucers for years with the group, Contact International UFO Research.
Mr Soper, who lives in Oxfordshire and in the past believes he has been abducted by aliens, said: “This latest sighting was phoned through by Thames Valley Police. A person said they saw a stubby winged object with an enormously bright green light going smoothly, effortlessly, across the sky.
“We were interested the police would phone it through to us.
“On this occasion they were very helpful.
“They have changed their attitude to UFO sightings.
“It is unusual to see a UFO this bright and in daylight. There is no doubt whatever it was a UFO.”
Mr Soper, talking generally about UFOs in Reading, said Caversham was an alien hotspot.
“We have had a lot of things happening north of Reading,” he said. “People have repeatedly mentioned pearl-like objects above the skies in the Caversham area.”
However, some people have cast doubt on Mr Soper’s claims, suggesting flying objects are nothing more than Chinese lanterns, aeroplanes or hot air balloons.
People who have spotted a UFO can contact Mr Soper on fc@accf.fastnet.co.uk or if you have seen one over Reading, call reporter Anna Roberts with your story on (0118) 918 3063.
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UK Sightings Persist, Lantern Theory Crumbles and UFOs Invade The Outback
UFO ‘seen over M4 service area’ Diary Entry by Bill Knell of opednews.com - July 2, 2008
Even though the news media has satisfied itself that recent UFO sightings in the UK were nothing more than Chinese lanterns set off for a wedding celebration, there is yet another credible sighting that occurred days later.
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Even though the news media has satisfied itself that the UFO sightings that began on June 7, 2008 in the UK were nothing more than Chinese lanterns set off for a wedding celebration that same day, there is yet another credible sighting report that occurred in the area days later. Dr Simon Griffey, 50, and his son Jack, 23, say they were driving near Llangynidr Mountain in the Brecon Beacons, Powys, when they spotted unusual lights over Talybont-on-Usk in Wales. The incident took place on June 12, 2008 at around 11:40pm and Jack took a cell phone photograph of the lights. It would have been impossible for the lanterns released on June 7th to account for those lights because they would have all burned out and crashed to earth by that time.
Dr Griffey, a psychologist at Cardiff University, told UK newspapers
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Sky lanterns spark UFO scare
Sky lanterns spark UFO scareJul 1, 2008 - by http://ukpress.google.com
UFOs resembling "orange lights" which terrified a genteel West Country suburb could simply have been Chinese sky lanterns, it has emerged.
Revellers making their way home to Charlton Kings in Cheltenham spotted the unexplained luminous cylinders at the weekend.
But it has now been revealed that a nearby junior school had sent up a number of paper lanterns that evening to celebrate its centenary.
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A groom sheds light on UFO sightings
A groom has shed light on last week’s supposed UFO sightings - they were sky lanterns!!
Iain MacNair, who was staying at the Parkside Hotel in Woughton on the Green, set off 100 sky lanterns after his wedding the day before.
On the same night six ’UFO sightings’ were reported to Thames Valley Police after people from Woughton on
the Green, Monkston and Bletchley saw mysterious lights moving through the sky.
Last week a police spokesman said that ’no one knows what they are’.
Mr McNair, an IT analyst from Stantonbury who married Tracy on August 23, said: "It was our wedding the day before, but the weather was bad so we postponed the Thai sky lanterns until the next day.
"We knew straight away that the UFO sightings were actually our Thai sky lanterns aka as Chinese Lanterns. Now there are some videos of the UFOs on Youtube with some really really funny comments."
Kurt Macintosh, receptionist at the hotel, added: "They had lanterns at their wedding but hadn’t let them off so they asked us if they could set them off," he said. They are sky lanterns and travel quite a way. Everyone went outside to look at them."
Traditionally used at Asian festivals, paper lanterns last around 20 minutes, rising 1,500 metres from the heat of their flame and potentially floating for miles. While there may be an explanation for these sightings, the Ministry of Defence has logged several unexplained objects flying through Milton Keynes in the past 11 years.
These include a round disc, about the size of a fighter jet travelling at 300mph at approximately 1000 ft. This was seen moving south east seen in Monkston in 1997.
There was also a high speed moving golf ball 3-4000ft that same year, as well as a black triangle, smaller than an airliner spotted in Bletchley.
In August 1998 a ’large and revolving’ circular object with square lights and windows from the outside going to the center.
And in 2001 a black kite shaped object ’headed west and often changed its speed’.
In 2002 a glowing orange boomerang shaped object was moving very fast and in 2005, when a person was travelling down the motorway, they saw red balls in the sky moving north west.
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Glowing orange UFO caught on film
Published Date:
28 April 2008
By Bob Hart
Monday, 5pm - WEIRD lights in the sky over Grantham were caught on video by Journal reader Andy Aulton.
Andy was hosting a barbecue at his home on Saturday evening when he spotted the orange spheres in the sky.
He said: "All of a sudden this big bright ball appeared, moving from south to north on a steady trajectory at a constant speed.
"The eerie thing about it was there was no noise at all, and as our RAF frinds fly over our house regularly we know the sound of jet engines."
Andy saw three of the objects pass overhead in around 15 minutes.
# Did you see the lights in sky? Do you know what they are? Contact us: comment@granthamjournal.co.uk
COMMENTS
# I was a guest at Mr Aultons BBQ and i do not believe these balls of fire were Chinese Lanterns. If they were, how can it be explained that they were 4 minutes apart and all followed the same course and trajectory.
People like K.Thomas get on my nerves by discounting the sighting when they did not actually witness it themselves.
Also apologies to Mr Verni, NY, USA - we did not have a film crew to hand on the night in question therefore the quality of the footage is not up to our usual standard !!
Elizabeth Graham
# In reply to some of the comments about the video we took about the strange objects we saw in the sky I reply.
1. I myself have never subscribed to the theory of UFOs, we only reported what we saw and invited comments.
2. At the Barbi, was a friend who is in the RAF who has been to Iraq, Afghanistan and witnessed all the atrocities of war, and he had never seen anything of this nature before.
3. The quality of the film is in question. Well it was filmed on a digital camera that happened to be the only thing to hand, so I am sorry Mr Jim Verni of Rochester NY, BUT OBVIOUSLY WE DID NOT HAVE A FULL CBS NEWS CREW IN THE GARDEN!
Andy Aulton
# The recent footage of glowing orange ufo’s are unfortunately ’chines lanterns’. www.skylanterns.com
I must urge your good selves and other media to look deeper into any reports, photo’s and video that contain words like, ’red (or orange), flame like orbs that float eerily and silently in the night sky...’ Are almost always these chinese lanterns.
It is perhaps a new fad for the UK hence why not a lot of people are aware of them.. There’s more and more localized newspaper reports of these things and its embarrasing for the people and the paper’s that print the story when really it is nothing more than an exotic balloon.
I am by no means a debunker of UFO’s. I investigate ufo’s part time and i believe there’s a good amount of sightings of strange lights out there that can be classed as genuine. It just gets on my nerves that there’s so many of these sky lantern reports coming in now and is distorting the theory of what is and is not really a UFO.
K. Thomas
# Its rather important that people in UK and elsewhere start to understand that new types of craft, reconnaissance from ETs is being deployed for unknown reasons to get info on Earth’s Inhabitants. I strongly urge you all to get more serious and understand how important this video really is and how essential it is to get the recorder of the video to give statements to ufo research groups in entirety of the event seen. Google my name/word ufo "Steve Tobias ufo" to learn the latest in ufo research work i did in years 2006 and 2007.
If you still do not accept after reading more how serious the matter is i suggest you search youtube.com video using search phrase nasa ufos or nasa worm...it will show a cargo craft that was being tugged by a ufo (gold orb stays motionless in video) and the tug released the "worm" ufo as the NASA space crew went over head, the size of this craft is inestimable but could be at least a mile in length, the nature of its uncontrolled motion in zero gravity suggests to me-- a ufo researcher since 1991 that it contains biomass of some kind...the craft was being tugged to Earth or was transferring material from Earth to elsewhere. I am a Veteran of the US Air Force and your own nation’s Military maintains secrets from you about ufos...wake up, learn, become motivated.
Steve Tobias
# Regarding the strange lights over Grantham, I too have seen the lights over Grantham. My son and a friend spotted them on Saturday 26th at about 9pm going over our houses in a south to north direction. There were three in total. Bright orange and again not even a sound. How spooky!!!!
To us they looked just like Chinese lanterns but with a bright burning flame in the middle. They wafted along on the evening breeze and then disappeared out of sight.
Has any one been able to shed any "light" on the matter?
Karen Cook
# your actual UFO-sighting is very ordinary here in Germany. Since 12 months we get in our UFO-Center CENAP all weekends exact such reports from all parts of the nation. To call am number: 600 times! Right 600 times in 12 months. It
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UFO light show stuns crowds
UFO light show stuns crowds
07 February 2007
PEOPLE screamed and cars came to a halt when dozens of mysterious lights hovered thousands of feet above Archway.
The "squadron" of flying orange objects left passers-by staring skyward in disbelief at around 5.30pm last Thursday. Police received four calls within a matter of minutes.
Cars had stopped. "It was kind of eerie," said eyewitness Tom Cull
Alix McAlister, 34, a market stall trader from Bredgar Road, Archway, said: "I just picked up my son from nursery in Bredgar Road. I had just come out of the door when I noticed what was going on in the sky.
"There were a group of them - 10 to 15 of them moving together. My first impression was that they reminded me of a squadron of aeroplanes in formation. But they didn’t have a proper formation and they were all moving at the same speed.
"I thought for a while that something was happening in the centre of London. Bombs and planes crossed my mind. But I realised very quickly that they didn’t look like any aircraft I’d seen before.
"They were coming from the north and moving south. And then they kind of stopped and they were hovering. There was no sound. They seemed to fade away and I saw more coming and then they stopped. It lasted about 10 minutes."
Designer James Zafar, of Palace Road, Crouch End, also watched the phenomena from Bredgar Road.
He said: "I parked the car and when I looked in the sky between the Little Angels nursery and the trees there were balls of light in the sky.
"They were all moving together. They stopped and then they came on again and there must have been about 12 of these things all moving across the sky.
Crowds also witnessed the spectacle from nearby Magdala Avenue and Highgate Hill.
Tom Cull, of Summerlee Gardens, Fortis Green, 27, a vision mixer, had just finished a guitar lesson when he noticed a crowd of people staring up at the sky in Magdala Avenue.
He said: "There were at least 30 people watching. Cars had stopped. It was kind of eerie.
"What I found strange about these things was the way they moved. The fact that they were so high would suggest they were quite big."
Mr Cull saw the lights again when he returned home to Summerlee Gardens.
Another witness, a 49-year-old company director who did not want to be named, was about to enter Archway Tube station in Highgate Hill when he saw the lights.
He said: "It was pretty spectacular. All I would say was that they were two to three thousand feet up and there was at least 30 or 40 people who would have seen this. There was screaming going on and everything. It was pretty weird."
Less than 30 minutes later similar "strange orange lights" were spotted miles away above Kings Lynn in East Anglia.
Reporter Charlotte Tamvakis tries to unravel the mystery of the ’Archway lights’
WHILE no one is in any doubt something happened in the sky above Archway last Thursday, experts are at odds over what caused the spooky sight.
The truth is out there - somewhere - and my search started with the account of eyewitness, James Zafar.
He said: "When I called 999 there was a big silence and then he came back on the phone and said we’ve tracked it by radar. Then he said, ’you are real really lucky, you’ve just seen a meteor or shooting star.’
"They definitely mentioned the radar and that leads me to think they know all about this."
But police would only confirm that they received a number of calls about the lights and that there was reference to radar and a meteor on their records. They could not say where this information came from.
And the Ministry of Defence (MOD) said it had had no reports of any "security incidents" - adding: "Unless there is evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom from an external source, and to date no ’UFO’ report has revealed such evidence, MOD does not attempt to identify the precise nature of each reported sighting."
Time to speak to someone who knows all about what happens in the sky at night.
I contacted the Royal Astronomical Society - but it ruled out a cosmological explanation.
Press officer Peter Bond said: "It doesn’t sound like aurora. Auroras are curtains of light and meteors last a few seconds and they leave a bright tail around them when they burn up. They won’t last for 10 minutes.
"And it certainly couldn’t be a comet either because comets don’t move because they are so far away. They move position from night to night."
His conclusion was that the lights must be military aircraft or some sort of weather balloons.
Then a spokesman for the Meteorological Office ruled out weather balloons - along with any weather-related explanation.
He explained: "It’s unlikely that it could have been anything to do with the weather. It was a pretty clear evening the whole night on Thursday. There were no storms or anything like that."
And astronomer and self proclaimed "UFO sceptic" Ian Ridpath also dismissed any astronomical or climatic explanations.
He believes the phenomenon was caused by "sky lanterns" or "UFO balloons" - one-off miniature hot air balloons that can be ordered online for use at parties.
Mr Ridpath said: "These things are always being reported. This very probably is the most likely explanation. What surprises me is that someone hasn’t come along and said this is what they are."
And with Chinese New Year just around the corner, this certainly seems like a possible answer.
But witnesses and UFO researchers disagree.
Contact International UFO Research, based in Oxford, aims to "solve the enigma of UFOs - whether fact or fiction".
A spokesman said: "I’m not convinced by the argument. I asked witnesses if they thought there was a possibility it was lanterns and they said no."
He added: "What we try to do is get an explanation and at the moment we are still banging our heads against the wall."
Some people have even suggested the lights could be radio masts on top of Archway Tower.
But eyewitness Mr Zafar said: "They moved and then they stopped and then they moved again. They were under control. I totally disagree. I think someone is trying to dismiss the story."
And Mr Cull added: "I don’t buy the balloon thing. When I first saw it, it was stationary and then it was moving above the hospital and then it moved towards the south."
For eyewitnesses of Thursday’s extraordinary events at least, it seems the truth is still out there.
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UFO explained: it was Chinese sky lanterns!
UFO explained: it was Chinese sky lanterns!
Published Date: 09 January 2009
It was described as an ’orange ball of light’over limavady, that led to stargazers around the country claiming it was an unidentified flying object, but when one Journal reader saw the story she felt compelled to confess and tell the truth.
The Ballykelly woman, preferring to remain anonymous, said the ball of orange was actually Chinese sky lanterns she released just before 5pm on Christmas Day.
Almost the size of a wheelie bin at 103cm high the lanterns are commonly used for weddings and other celebrations. They glow orange due to a flame, and operate like a hot air balloon.
’They go until they burn themselves out. They’re great craic,’ said the woman, who said she let off three paper lanterns just before 5pm on Christmas Day, when the reports were made. Despite claims the ball of orange was a UFO, the woman is adamant it was her lanterns.
’My son said I should say nothing, but I knew I had to ring up and tell the truth.’
The woman who sold the lanterns was Derry woman Clare McElhinney, of Angel Fire Sky Lanterns. It is not the first time she has been blamed for possible UFO sightings. When she heard about the latest reports, she laughed.
’People automatically think it’s a UFO, but I’m sorry to disappoint them.’ Last year, the same thing happened at a wedding in Dublin when Chinese sky lanterns were let off. The incident was reported widely on the internet and was even the highlight of a paranormal convention. The much publicised and discussed ’UFOs’ were actually Chinese sky lanterns released by a local couple as a romantic end to their perfect day.
Nonetheless, since the ’Journal’ reported on the ball of orange, several readers have called about other strange sightings from Dungiven to Limavady.
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NYE lanterns spark fake UFO sightings
NYE lanterns spark fake UFO sightings
3rd January 2009
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Germany’s UFO hotline has been inundated with thousands of calls from people who have mistaken glowing lights in the night time sky for alien space objects.
The red-gold lights were in fact balloons that have become the latest festive season fad, according to Werner Walter of the Central Research Network for Unusual Sky Phenomena (CENAP).
The sightings were ’nothing but hot air,’ said the UFO expert, referring to the sky lanterns which have been sold for the first time at Christmas markets and garden centres across the country.
The miniature hot-air balloons, nothing more than a paper lantern suspended over a naked flame, provided ’a silent alternative’ to the traditional fireworks let off to mark the start of the New Year, Walter said.
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Family Claims UFO Sighting In St. Augustine
Family Claims UFO Sighting In St. Augustine (WFTV, Orlando)
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- The sighting of two fiery balls flying across the sky in St. Augustine is causing quite a stir.
The Puckett family said they spotted what they believe was a UFO on Saturday night. A man in Germany also claimed to have seen the same fiery balls.
Some, though, say the explanation is that they are life-sized hot air balloons called ’sky lanterns,’ traditionally used in Asian festivals.
The lanterns can rise nearly 5,000 feet and travel for miles.
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Was It A UFO, Or Lanterns?
Was It A UFO, Or Lanterns? (Channel 13)
ST. AUGUSTINE -- A reported UFO sighting near St. Augustine is creating a buzz, but some people think there is a perfectly logical explanation.
The Puckett family is convinced the small lights flying overhead were UFOs.
’I looked up and it was like these two fiery balls, like, flying across the sky sort of in a formation. They were, like, flying towards each other,’ said Brandon Puckett, 12.
People around the world claimed they saw the lights, too.
A man in Germany posted a video on YouTube.com that show the same fiery globes the Puckett family believe they saw.
Some people say the lights were nothing more than sky lanterns. The life-size hot air balloons are traditionally used in Asian festival.
One TV station reported that there was a wedding reception nearby where the wedding party sent up two sky lanterns around the same time as the sighting.
The lanterns float nearly 5,000 feet in the air and travel for miles.
As for the Pucketts, they say they will keep their eyes open for whatever passes by.
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Residents Report UFO Sightings
Residents Report UFO Sightings
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- Residents near the St. Augustine airport are used to seeing planes flying overhead. Saturday night, the Puckett family said they saw a UFO.
The Puckett family claimed they saw two fiery ball-like objects flying across the sky. Other people around the globe reported seeing the lights too. A German man posted video of the fiery globes on YouTube.
Skeptics said there is a clear explanation for the fiery lights. A Jacksonville woman said the lights are sky lanterns released at a wedding reception that was nearby. The lanterns can rise nearly 5,000 feet in the air and travel for miles.
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Teenager’s party blamed for UFO mystery
ENLIGHTENING: The lanterns are popular at Chinese New Year
Teenager’s party blamed for UFO mystery
Published Date: 23 April 2008
By CHRIS MARSHALL
THEIR presence in the night sky stopped onlookers in their tracks and sent the conspiracy theorists into overdrive.
But despite their otherworldly glow, it seems the mysterious orange lights spotted above the Capital earlier this month have a rather more down-to-earth explanation.
It has now emerged that the orange orbs, which were caught on film by walkers in the Braid Hills area, were Chinese sky lanterns let off during a teenager’s birthday party.
Several people reported seeing the lights between 8.50pm and 9pm on Saturday, April 12.
The UFO mystery was today solved when a resident of Blackford Avenue, near the Royal Observatory, said the lights were nothing more than lanterns bought from internet auction site eBay as part of celebrations for her daughter’s birthday.
The woman, who did not want to be named, said she was shocked at all the fuss the lights had caused.
She said: ’They were called Chinese sky lanterns and they even said on the box that they could be mistaken for UFOs.’
One Edinburgh-based astronomer said the growing popularity of the lanterns had led to a string of similar sightings in the Capital in the past few years.
Resembling small hot-air balloons, the lanterns are lit by a naked flame and then float into the sky with a fiery glow.
Russell Eberst, a former information officer at the Royal Observatory on Blackford Hill, said: ’We get a steady flow of calls about UFOs, and Chinese lanterns are making up a bigger percentage of those in recent years.
’There are usually two or three UFOs sightings a day reported to the observatory, especially if we get a run of clear nights. The lanterns tend to be used more at times like New Year and the Chinese New Year.
’There are no doubt sci-fi buffs who would love to be in contact with people from other worlds, but there are all sorts of lights in the sky.
It’s a big jump from seeing something in the sky to assuming it relates to an alien civilisation visiting the Earth.’
A number of people had contacted the Evening News following sightings of the orange lights.
Air traffic controllers had noted nothing unusual and the Army also struggled to come up with an explanation for the strange objects in the night sky.
Last year, the Government opened its records on UFO sightings for the first time, containing eyewitness reports from across Edinburgh and the surrounding regions. Sightings included a series of flashing lights over Corstorphine Hill in 1998.
Investigators said at the time they were puzzled by the lights and urged more witnesses to come forward, but the mystery was never solved. Other incidents, such as two ’fuzzy white lights’ that danced over Leith in 2001 and a ’swirly’ object appearing above East Linton in 2006, have also never been explained.
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UK Surrey and Sussex - The lights in the sky
Can you help us to explain the latest phenomenon that is attracting attention in the Surrey and Sussex skies?
From as early as April 2008, we started to receive reports of unexplained bright orange lights in the sky. Sometimes static and sometimes moving, the numbers of these lights varied, but everyone who reported them, were very clear on one point. The colour.
The first report came from Grahame, who said he had seen three bright orange lights in the sky, following each other at regular intervals heading from North to South, near Varndean School in Brighton. It was 21.30pm.
He told us ’Over the next few minutes, a further five similar orange lights went over following in an orderly manner. We did not hear any noise at all as they went over and guess they were approximately 500-1000ft above us.’
Grahame claimed he saw these lights on the evening of Saturday 5th April, so you could be forgiven for thinking it was a late April Fool prank.
But then Andy Clarke contacted us to say he had witnessed up to a dozen round orange lights, visible from Redhill, heading in an easterly direction from the town, on Saturday 12th July, at approximately 22.40pm.
’There were about seven visible at same time, not travelling particularly fast. Totally unlike any planes or helicopters. I did manage to take a photo on my phone but how ever my friends or I look at it, it seems unlike anything we have ever seen. I didn’t make much of a fuss because of the ridicule I would receive from friends. When I checked the sky half an hour later, there were no longer any sign of the objects.’
Are there UFO’s up there?
Hot on his heels, came Anthony Connor. On the night of the 26th July, at 21.30pm, he were walking along a footpath that leads from the A259 at East Dean, heading towards the village hall in East Dean village. He says ’We saw hundreds of individual lights moving slowly inland. We stood and watched for about ten minutes, and they kept on coming.’
Then, Melanie emailed to say she had seen five bright orange lights, which appeared to be stationary, in the Dorking area. She even parked her car to take better look but the lights had vanished. This was at 21.30pm on 2nd August.
And most recently Lisa Daddy told us that on the 27th September she was taking washing in, at 8pm, and noticed a ’formation of orange lights in the sky, slowly rising up from a North Easterly direction and then disappearing.’ She called her husband out to see about twenty to thirty lights.
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UFOS Reported In NJ, March 2004
TINTON FALLS
The observers have been seeing orbs near the Jersey Shore on a regular basis. This is the 5th event in the last three months.
They have increased in frequency and because of other events the observers suspects other aspects of these ’sightings’ might be in effect on March 21, 2004 at 9 PM. I was heading out to the garage and felt panicked, something I haven’t felt since I was a young boy and it was exactly the same feeling, specifically a feeling of being watched. The temperature had dropped significantly, clearing the night sky for some good star viewing this evening. I look at the night sky each and every night, as well as study astrology and do some amateur astronomy, so I am VERY aware of the positions of the planets. What I first thought to be Venus, was a bit too high in the sky for 8:25pm. I kept looking and thought it was odd that it looked as bright as it did in late February.
I continued to look and it faded into a very faint dot, and then disappeared. ’With that, I looked DIRECTLY above my head, and saw two more bright ’dots’ or orbs’ which were flying in an echelon right formation, heading due east. These things were bright looking stars, but lower than real stars and they turned into dim dots (which then made them look more natural like stars. I looked back in the direction of the first object and it came ’zooming’ back into full brightness. Thanks to Peter Davenport UFOcenter HOPEWELL - On March 22, 2004 at 8 PM, while driving on back road near Hopewell, two friends spotted a formation of four lights, with the bottom three diagonal to the right . The top brightest light was slightly off to the left. We looked at the formation for a minute while it stayed stationary, and then the top brightest light began to move. It passed the car and changed position from the right of the car over to the left. Once we looked back at the remaining three lights, the next top one moved a little to the right, flew straight up, then disappeared into the sky. After driving a little while longer, we were shocked to find a number of blinking lights surrounding the car. After a short amount of time, the objects disappeared, and we noticed we were being followed by a mysterious car. The car’s headlights were so bright it caused my friend and me to comment on growing headaches. When we slowed to allow the car to pass, it came to a stop, and eventually fell behind us. The whole event lasted about ten minutes.Thanks to Peter Davenport UFOcenter
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Close Encounters Of The Jersey Kind?
Close Encounters Of The Jersey Kind?
Cops, Residents Puzzled By Bizarre Lights Over Morris Co.;
Flares? Balloons? Pilot Tells CBS 2 HD He’s Baffled
Reporting John Slattery
MORRISTOWN, N.J. (CBS)
Was it a UFO or is there an explanation for it?
Strange, red, blinking lights could be seen across Morris County on Monday night, and officials thought they had figured out what caused them.
Now, they’re not so sure.
Between 8:30 and 9 p.m., the Hurley family in Whippany captured images of a bizarre object in the sky and contacted WCBSTV.com.
’It was unsettling for sure,’ said Cindy Hurley. ’It was something you’ve never seen before, and a very strange pattern.’
Eleven-year-old Kristin was the first to spot them, a group of three lights together, and two lights together, seen in the horizon through the trees. ’I looked up outside. I was really scared and saw five red lights,’ she said.
The family all went out onto their deck to look at the strange sight. Paul Hurley, a pilot who works at Morristown Airport, said they weren’t planes.
’I’ve been in aviation for 20 years and never seen anything like it,’ he told CBS 2.
Paul was one of several people who e-mailed WCBSTV.com after witnessing the lights.
’Red lights in the sky over the Morristown-Morris Township area, 5 red lights in a weird pattern over the area,’ one viewer wrote.
’The formation of 5 lights were first noticed over Cedar Knolls and then as they approached the Madison/Morris Township border the rear half of the formation slowly faded and appeared to drop from the sky and then the front part of the formation went out one by one,’ wrote another.
At 8:28, the Hanover Township police received the first of seven 911 calls.
’It looks like flares attached to balloons,’ said a caller.
Paul Hurley, who called the Morristown Airport control tower, says the lights had also been spotted from there, and they caused no interference with flight operations. Between those officials and the Morristown Police, the best guess as to what the lights were: nothing more than a prank, roadside flares attached to helium balloons. Yet, they left rather quickly.
’It like, it took off, very strange,’ said Paul.
There’s been no report of any recovered, and police don’t know who released them.
The Federal Aviation Administration tells CBS 2 news, with the exception of laser lights and weather balloons, there is no regulation on releasing balloons or lights into the sky.
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Mystery continues: More lights seen in Morris County night sky
Mystery continues: More lights seen in Morris County night sky
By Abbott Koloff • GANNETT NEW JERSEY • January 31, 2009 • APP.com
Robert Warnock and his sales manager at Warnock Ford in Morristown saw the mysterious red lights in the sky a few weeks ago when they were first widely reported over Morris County. Then someone called Thursday evening, a little before 8 p.m., and told them to look up in the sky.
’The lights are back,’ they were told.
On several occasions within the past few weeks, in different parts of the county, people have reported seeing the same kind of lights. Morristown police officials, who received several reports about the lights several weeks ago, said they appeared to be a hoax composed of road flares suspended from balloons.
They also may be something called sky lanterns -- inexpensive balloons powered by lighting wax-infused cloth, capable of reaching an elevation of about one mile and traveling for up to 10 miles.
Todd Schlosser, owner of TheSkylantern.com, located in Michigan, said on Friday that he saw videos posted on YouTube of the red lights in New Jersey a few weeks ago. He said they looked familiar.
’I believe in UFOs,’ Schlosser said. ’But the stuff they’ve been seeing in New Jersey are definitely sky lanterns.’
He said the 34-inch tall balloons are used in various celebrations, including weddings and church events, and cost about $2 apiece.
Bob Fisher saw the lights from his backyard in Hanover, and said it appeared they were floating, moving with the wind. He captured them on video.
’Someone’s just having fun,’ he said.
Tom Nolfi, Warnock Ford’s sales manager, said the lights appeared to be blinking and did not appear to be flames or road flares. He said they stayed in a formation, as if attached to something.
’They didn’t bob or weave,’ he said.
Schlosser said sky lanterns would appear to stay in formation as long as they are launched at the same time and are in the same air current. He also said the lanterns, sometimes called UFO balloons, have been known to create UFO scares around the world. About a year ago, a New Jersey customer told him he launched a sky lantern and told his neighbor to look at the UFO over their homes.
’Get out your camera,’ the man said to his neighbor, according to Schlosser.
More than a half-dozen people contacted the Daily Record about Thursday night’s lights, and several others said they saw similar lights Monday night a little after 8 p.m. in Randolph and Mount Olive. Randolph police said they responded to one call Monday night but the lights were gone by the time they arrived.
Abbott Koloff can be reached at (973) 428-6636 or see article here
http://app.com/article/20090131/NEWS/90131010
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UFO Theory Debunked
GRANDVILLE - Some people in Grandville swear they saw some UFO"s over the weekend. We got a bunch of emails at the station and we’re happy to tell you we got to the bottom of it all.
It’s the result of a wedding celebration. Deb Brinks says they launched about 30 sky lanterns after her daughter’s reception.
The Sky Lanterns have been around for years. "Europe was the first place they got pretty popular. Hit in the millions over there in the first year. It’s taken about four or five years to get around here for sales, so they’re starting to be more and more popular," said Todd Schlosser, owner of TNT sales.
Schlosser says they’re 100% bio-degradable, and the balloon part is flame retardant. They can stay in the sky anywhere between 5 and 30 minutes. He also says they’re very popular at weddings.
"We apologize for any confusion and our daughter is on her honeymoon right now so she doesn’t even know this is happening" said Brinks.
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Mystery of the orange UFOs solved — or is it?
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By STEVEN ALFORD
The Lufkin Daily News
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
After local residents claimed they saw strange orange lights floating over Chambers Park Saturday night, guests at a weekend event have come forward offering a possible explanation.
According to participants at the McPhail-Johnson wedding Saturday night, the group released more than 50 Chinese lanterns into the air downtown.
Guests at the McPhail-Johnson wedding release Chinese lanterns into the air Saturday night in downtown Lufkin.
Guests at the McPhail-Johnson wedding release Chinese lanterns into the air Saturday night in downtown Lufkin.
A Web site describes the lanterns as canvas balloons that use the heat from a candle to ascend into the air, creating a line of luminous floating objects.
At about the same time as the lanterns were released, shortly after 9 p.m., residents in a central Lufkin area reported seeing large clusters of orange balls of light floating slowly over Chambers Park, toward Nacogdoches. A Lufkin police officer responded to the scene after one resident accidentally set off her house alarm while going outside to see the lights.
Since hearing the news of the wedding party’s lanterns, one central Lufkin resident said she wouldn’t count out the possibility of their claim.
"If this is what these were, then the wedding photographer will have a video of that event," said Gail Cummings, a resident who reported the foreign lights Saturday. "I hope this is the explanation. It will put things to rest."
Staff with the Main Event, which held the wedding reception at the company’s Lodge on Shepherd Street, said they did not furnish the Chinese lanterns to the wedding party.
On Tuesday, the city’s fire marshal said she does not advocate any other group’s attempt to iginite the lanterns in the city again.
"The downtown area is extra sensitive because the buildings are so close together, and you have no idea where the lanterns will drop," said Lee Fran Skelton, Lufkin’s fire marshal.
"They can burn as long as 20 minutes and can travel several miles during that time."
Several East Texans have responded to the initial reports about Saturday’s strange lights, posting comments on about the story on the message board at LufkinDailyNews.com — and not everyone is convinced it was caused by Chinese lanterns.
One Zavalla man stated: "I’ve seen lights in the sky that fit this description in Zavalla for about three years now. Sometimes they move very erratically and sometimes they hover in one place for minutes at a time, which is why I’m hesitant to believe they are floating lanterns."
Whether they are objects from another world or just a wedding reception’s grand finale moment, Cummings says she and the other witnesses may never know.
"I hope this is what it was, because it has really made me feel rather strange to think there could be that many objects flying over silently and unexplained," she said.
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