Bright Lights In The Sky

[Flashheart]

I was sat outside a neighbour's house this evening (just north of York) having a BBQ, when around 9pm my wife said 'look at that'. We all looked up and saw a bright orange light, that appeared to be burning, moving extremely quickly across the sky from East to West. It was too fast to be an aircraft and too slow to be a shooting star. We watched if for over 30s at it streaked westward making no sound whatsoever and leaving no contrails.

Did anyone else see it, more importantly, does anybody know what is was?

Oh, we were all sober at that point before you ask!

[mybrainhurts]

Chinese lantern...

Next...?

[XG332]

It may have been one of those chinese lanterns. They look like they travel very fast once they get up high, must be something to do witht the perspective. In the local paper we had the local nutters claiming of UFOs.

[Flashheart]

At first we all thought it was a lantern but to be honest it appeared to be very high up and moving very quickly, it didn't seem to waver or change course as I would expect a lantern to do if it were being blown by the wind.

I'm not with the UFO brigade at all but it did seem odd. Ho hum, must have been the sausages - black on the outside, pink on the inside.

[mybrainhurts]

Flashheart said:

At first we all thought it was a lantern but to be honest it appeared to be very high up and moving very quickly,

That's what they do....

Listen carefully, I will say this urnly wurnce....CHINESE LANTERN

[Flashheart]

Furry Muff!

[Sheets Tabuer]

If it was quite precise I'd say it was a japanese latern, some might say a chinese latern but theose pesky feckers copy everything.

[Dick_Phallus]

Probably a UFO

[elster]

Dick_Phallus said:

Probably a UFO

Obviously! Otherwise he wouldn't be asking if he could ID it.

I'll go for Chinese lantern. I don't know if something was happening last night as I saw some, as did a friend in London.

[sneijder]

UFO Lantern.

First time I saw one in Thailand I thought it was a plane. Then it landed in the sea.

[karona]

That's another vote for a lantern, especially as Weather Underground
http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/EGNV/2...
reports last night's wind as from the East at 12mph

[Flashheart]

Hmmm, wind from the East at 12 mph - that would be it then!

None of us had ever seen one before and it was funny trying to work out what it was, which of course we couldn't. My how everyone will laugh when I see them today. :arse:

[GTIR]

Why is it that people seem to think anything they can't recognise in the sky must be something unusual or UFO'y?

Its a bloody Chinese lantern!

Chinese lantern

Chinese lantern!

Chinese lantern!!

CHINESE fkING LANTERN!

It's a fking stting wking lump of paper with a candle!!


And relax.


Chinese Lantern.

[Hedders]

GTIR said:

Why is it that people seem to think anything they can't recognise in the sky must be something unusual or UFO'y?

Because any flying object you can not identify IS a UFO, until you figure out what it really is.

[GTIR]

Hedders said:

GTIR said:

Why is it that people seem to think anything they can't recognise in the sky must be something unusual or UFO'y?

Because any flying object you can not identify IS a UFO, until you figure out what it really is.

It's either a plane, cloud, or Chinese lantern.

Never unidentified.

It's like if I look in my sink and say there's an unidentified item in the washing up bowl among the suds.
It's not really though as it's likely to be a plate, cup, fork, spoon etc.

UFO's by there very essence do not exist as it must be something identifiable otherwise it would go like this;
"Whats that in the sky?"
"Dont know"
"Must be a UFO then"
"No. I just said I don't know, but it's probably a fking Chinese lantern"

[Hedders]

What about if alien space ships look exactly like chinese lanterns?

Just because you didn't realise it was a UFO doesn't mean it wasn't :P

[DieselGriff]

GTIR said:

It's either a plane, cloud, or Chinese lantern.

Never unidentified.

Until you ascertain which one of those it is it remains unidentified.

[GTIR]

Hedders said:

What about if alien space ships look exactly like chinese lanterns?

Just because you didn't realise it was a UFO doesn't mean it wasn't :P

Damn. Got me stumped there.

[Alfanatic]

GTIR said:

Hedders said:

GTIR said:

Why is it that people seem to think anything they can't recognise in the sky must be something unusual or UFO'y?

Because any flying object you can not identify IS a UFO, until you figure out what it really is.

It's either a plane, cloud, or Chinese lantern.

Never unidentified.

It's like if I look in my sink and say there's an unidentified item in the washing up bowl among the suds.
It's not really though as it's likely to be a plate, cup, fork, spoon etc.

UFO's by there very essence do not exist as it must be something identifiable otherwise it would go like this;
"Whats that in the sky?"
"Dont know"
"Must be a UFO then"
"No. I just said I don't know, but it's probably a fking Chinese lantern"

You have a really unique understanding of the word "unidentified"

I think I know where you're coming from though. If someone saw an alien spaceship flying around above them, and saw little green men peering out of the windows, and even if the spaceship had "Martian Heavy Industries Type 87 Interplanetary Transport - Clipper Olympus" written on the side in large, well lit letters, they'd probably still say they saw a UFO.

[Hedders]

So true!