lights in the sky

dubdvd

its saturday nite and its 23:35pm im in dublin 12 ,and the sky is full of orange lights which seem to be floating across the sky then they seem to drop from the sky with a trail of smoke behind them ,there is lots of them in the sky there all out of the pubs up here looking at them has anybody eles seen these this is not a wind up

segadreamcast

Dublin 11 - nothing - sorry.

segadreamcast

Get pictures!

mike65

Silver weather balloons reflecting the street lights? Never seen more than one at a time mind you...

Mike.

Flukey

I saw the moon on my way home from the pub, but nothing more than that, but it was later than 23:35 when I was coming from town. I got a lift home and we did actually comment on the moon, though my friends giving me the lift have no particular interest in astronomy. It was one of them that brought up the subject, at which point I told them of my particular interest in the subject. We very briefly discussed a few matters on it, like the Venus transit, which one of them had heard of, but our conversation soon moved on from that. So I did not see anything unusual and I don't know what it was you saw. If you find out, I am sure you will enlighten us.

keu

fireworks?
it is august bank holiday weekend afterall....

Flukey

I think they were lasers like the ones that they had on O'Connell Street around the time of the EU Accession.

LastIrishMonkey

is this thing or things u saw those white balls of light ? or is it the thing really far away ?

Flukey

I think what they saw were probably spotlights or lasers. The ESB have just put a new set of flashing lights on one of the chimneys out at the Pigeon House, which can now be seen flashing from almost anywhere in Dublin. This from the ESB:

New chimney lights have been installed on Poolbeg Chimney No. 1 and are
under test at present. The previous lights were over thirty years of age,
were failing regularly and were in need of replacement as spare parts could
not be obtained.

The Poolbeg chimneys are on the flight path from one of the runways at
Dublin Airport. Because of the height of the chimney, the lights are
aircraft warning lights rather than helicopter warning lights, which are
visible on lower chimneys in the Dublin area, including our own Combined
Cycle chimneys in Poolbeg. The new lights have to comply with the latest
aviation authority standards* for chimneys of that height (680') and are
brighter than the old lights.

Aviation standards dictate how the lights are set up and their intensity.
ESB is required to comply with these standards. The lights will be lit day
and night. There are three light intensity settings - day, twilight and
night, which is lowest.

It is proposed that similar lights will be fitted to Chimney No. 2 in the
next few weeks once testing and commissioning is finished on Chimney No. 1

* ICAO Annex 14, Volume 1, Third Edition July 1999, Chapter 6, Table
6.3


Denis McCabe