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By Billy Booth, About.com Guide to UFOs / Aliens since 2005

UFOs or Chinese Lanterns?

Monday October 22, 2007
In the last couple of months, Great Britain has had quite a wave of UFO sighting reports. There have been photographs and video taken of red-orange lights moving in formation over the countryside, and eyewitness accounts of these strange, unknown object which brightened up the night with their eerie glow. After a couple of weeks of these reports, someone had the bright idea that they had the answer: Chinese lanterns. This startling conclusion was reached when it was discovered that celebrators at a wedding had released some of these red glowing objects like setting off fireworks, and the location was very near to where UFOs had been reported on the very same night. I could certainly accept this conclusion, although I don't believe that it would take a Sherlock Holmes to make this deduction. So, we will give one to the debunkers.

However, there is a problem. Although there have been approximately 25 different sighting reports in different locations, now ALL of them can be attributed to the lanterns... or so they say. This is a classic weapon of debunkers. Take a wave of sightings, find an explanation for one of them. Go public with your findings, and suddenly, every UFO sighting in the last 5 years that involved red or orange glowing lights can be explained the same way. This is how the general public thinks. These are followers, those who quickly and easily follow the leader. This is why we must always follow Ufology's first and foremost rule. Judge each case on its own merits. If only one of the many sightings was not Chinese lanterns, then we have a case of a group of UFOs that needs further investigation.

Comments

October 22, 2007 at 1:50 pm
(1) star says:

UFOs kill by both skeptic and enthusiast, Most UFO are not the craft, they are space-life…….
visit my blog
http://spacelife-ufo.blogspot.com/

October 22, 2007 at 3:23 pm
(2) Linda says:

To Billy Booth, I completely agree that each case has to be judged on its own merits. And do you know if there are any statistics that would support the fact that more people are reporting ufo sightings? I’m sure there are, but I’m not sure where to look.

To Star, above – I don’t understand your posting when you say ufos kill. Could you be more clear? Thanks.

October 22, 2007 at 6:20 pm
(3) Stephen Essex "alienboff" says:

some wise words/advice Billie, maybe I could do a bit of research on it for you?

October 23, 2007 at 2:23 am
(4) star says:

I mean they make ufo research more difficult, even impossible.

October 24, 2007 at 1:19 pm
(5) watchman says:

seagulls with flashights tied to them! maybe swamp gas?

October 29, 2007 at 4:00 pm
(6) bert vere says:

Pathetic graspings of overwhelmed die hards……
The simple facts point to a state of mass denial and a supremely difficult struggle internally on the part of those who fantically deny the stream of evidence which seems contigous throughout mans history….
The UFO controversy being a problem of psycho siocial perceptions of the masses…

June 5, 2009 at 9:24 pm
(7) DDave says:

Thing that gets me is that they wre found in a number of locations all grouped close together, as oposed to being scattered everywhere.

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