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Lights, Lanterns, or UFOs?

Saturday September 20, 2008
As we all know, there is an ongoing wave of sightings over Great Britain. You may also know that many of these sightings have been explained away as Chinese lanterns. It is probably true that at least some of the reports could be resolved this way. However, when you get a report like the following, one must wonder.

On 09-16-08, over the city of Bristol, more orange lights were observed in the sky. No big deal, really, but let's look a little closer. People actually came out into the streets to see the action above them. What they saw was four lights, which were barely moving. Witnesses said that the four lights seemed to be "waiting for the last one" to appear. Finally, there were five, and then, the lights circled the area several times in a group before disappearing.

Chinese lanterns blown in circles by strange winds? What do you think?

Comments

September 25, 2008 at 9:16 pm
(1) lindagranados says:

Must have been some wind. I believe it was ufos.

November 20, 2008 at 11:10 pm
(2) cmcc says:

I was at a golf course near Phoenix, AZ a couple evenings ago just after sunset. There was a very bright “something” in the low southwest sky. (After approx. a half hour, the “somethings” seemed to have moved about an inch west in the sky, keeping a uniform distance apart) Another “something” was above it in the sky and to the left, and its brightness kept fading in and out. There is an airport nearby, but all the aircraft and stars were easily distinguishable from these 2 objects. Everyone else at the driving range agreed that these did not look like normal stars.

Sound like anything alien-related? Or perhaps just low stars that hadn’t risen yet that evening?

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