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  • 13-02-2010 11:41am
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    Wizard007
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    I know this sounds daft, and no I was not drinking.

    I live half way between Gorey and Arklow. At about 1am a big bright orange light rose from the west and went across the sky and went off to the south. It was travelling slow enough and was really really bright, like a really big star but orange. It was just below the cloud line. I rang Astronomy Ireland this morning and the guy said it was a chineese latern, one of these things people leave off at parties, ah no it wasn't. It was too slow to be a meteor. It wasn't an aircraft.

    Did anyone else see this?


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    St Senan
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    Wizard007 wrote: »
    I know this sounds daft, and no I was not drinking.

    I live half way between Gorey and Arklow. At about 1am a big bright orange light rose from the west and went across the sky and went off to the south. It was travelling slow enough and was really really bright, like a really big star but orange. It was just below the cloud line. I rang Astronomy Ireland this morning and the guy said it was a chineese latern, one of these things people leave off at parties, ah no it wasn't. It was too slow to be a meteor. It wasn't an aircraft.

    Did anyone else see this?

    Hi Wizard there is a lot of strange sightings around your Area especially around Coolgreaney Maybe you saw a Satellite
    The one Sky digital use :D:D:D:D


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    Wizard007
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    scaller wrote: »
    Hi Wizard there is a lot of strange sightings around your Area especially around Coolgreaney Maybe you saw a Satellite
    The one Sky digital use :D:D:D:D

    Very funny you :p

    Yes, I think it's a sign. Holiday needed :)


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    Bolt82
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    iv seen things like this lately and i live in rosslare. Iv seen quite alot of them but i think they were just chinnese lanterns. Although the ones i saw moved strangly!


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    Wizard007
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    This didn't veer off course. It just went in a smooth line from west to south. If it was a chineese lantern it would not have gone that smoothly I don't think.


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    Bolt82
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    was it a windy night? The night i saw lights like that there were 2 of them and one stayed in the same position all the time and the other came from the bottom left up near the other and then went of to the upper left again. While the second stayed in the same place all the time.

    I tried to use my iphone to get some video or a picture but the camera on it couldnt pick them up.


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    Wizard007
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    No it was calm enough. I was afraid to go back inside to get the camera in case it was gone when I went back out. It prob wouldn't pick it up anyway.

    I'm sitting here like an eejit waiting for something to happen again tonight :o Sad or what. I'm just so convinced it wasn't a lantern.


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    Bolt82
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    I know these lanterns are big things at the moment around wexford but i have heard alot of people talk about things they have seen and admitidly some things sound like the lanterns but others dont.

    I originally from Kildare and i know there was alot of talk up there last year about odd things appearing in the sky at night. I think there is a topic on this board somewhere about it!

    Over the last year or so there seems to be a massive increase in sightings all over europe. And they are all describing the same things!


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    Wizard007
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    I don't know what to think. I have a camera with video on it and I'm leaving it on the window inside the back door so next time if I see something I can just grab it on the way out.

    They can't all be lanterns surely. And a latern wouldn't be that steady.


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    Judgement Day
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    Could this be something to do with the number of new Head shops in the South East? :D


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    Wizard007
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    Judgement Day wrote: »
    Could this be something to do with the number of new Head shops in the South East? :D

    Very funny :p No I don't indulge. Maybe I should :eek:


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    Sleipnir
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    Wizard007 wrote: »
    I know this sounds daft, and no I was not drinking.

    I live half way between Gorey and Arklow. At about 1am a big bright orange light rose from the west and went across the sky and went off to the south. It was travelling slow enough and was really really bright, like a really big star but orange. It was just below the cloud line. I rang Astronomy Ireland this morning and the guy said it was a chineese latern, one of these things people leave off at parties, ah no it wasn't. It was too slow to be a meteor. It wasn't an aircraft.

    Did anyone else see this?

    So it wasn't an aircraft, wasn't a meteor, Astronomy Ireland say it was a chinese lantern but you say "it wasn't" based on.....what exactly?
    What do you think it was?

    Given that chinese lanterns are hugely popular at the moment for weddings, parties etc and lots of people on boards have started reporting them in the past year or two http://www.boards.ie//vbulletin/search.php?searchid=10589090 and given that Astronomy Ireland didn't start hopping around with this new amazing discovery, it was, most likely, a CHINESE LANTERN.

    There is a possibility of course that it was aliens, a tiny protostar that happened to pass through our atmosphere, a tear in the space/time continuum but, talking probabilities, it was, most likely, a CHINESE LANTERN.
    Don't bother with photographs, we've all seen them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV7nQU7iaCg

    If it looks like a dog, and barks like a dog....etc.


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    Wizard007
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    Ah you're taking the pi$$ now. No it didn't look like that..... though it was so far away..... hmmm maybe if you cover it in really bright orange bulbs?


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    Sleipnir
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    No, I'm not, seriously. It was a chinese lantern. Sorry to disappoint you!


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    Judgement Day
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOLGrXOtuwQ


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    Wizard007
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    Sleipnir wrote: »
    So it wasn't an aircraft, wasn't a meteor, Astronomy Ireland say it was a chinese lantern but you say "it wasn't" based on.....what exactly?
    What do you think it was?

    Given that chinese lanterns are hugely popular at the moment for weddings, parties etc and lots of people on boards have started reporting them in the past year or two http://www.boards.ie//vbulletin/search.php?searchid=10589090 and given that Astronomy Ireland didn't start hopping around with this new amazing discovery, it was, most likely, a CHINESE LANTERN.

    There is a possibility of course that it was aliens, a tiny protostar that happened to pass through our atmosphere, a tear in the space/time continuum but, talking probabilities, it was, most likely, a CHINESE LANTERN.
    Don't bother with photographs, we've all seen them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV7nQU7iaCg

    If it looks like a dog, and barks like a dog....etc.

    That's not what I saw. Your attitude sucks :mad:


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    Wizard007
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    Sleipnir wrote: »
    No, I'm not, seriously. It was a chinese lantern. Sorry to disappoint you!
    That was directed at Judgement Day, not you.

    Judgement Day - name is fitting :rolleyes:

    I like the invaders piece. Very funny :p


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    Wizard007
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    Sleipnir wrote: »
    No, I'm not, seriously. It was a chinese lantern. Sorry to disappoint you!

    If David Vincient can see them then so can I :p


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    Judgement Day
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    Sorry for the piss taking - just bored out of my mind waiting for the England v Italy match to start. I like the idea of UFOs etc but have never seen more than a shooting star myself. Big fan of Dr.Who, Space 1999 and, of course, the original Invaders series. I will leave you in peace now and switch over to the rugby. Happy UFO hunting. :D


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    Wizard007
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    No problem, enjoy the match :)

    I did see somthing you know? I wasn't making it up :rolleyes:

    Be good :p


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    maroon
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    i wouldnt worry about these smart comments.I have seen similar orange light couple of months ago and it freaked me out. it was flying low enough and in a steady controlled like manner.I've seen chinese lanterns before and this one didnt look like one.much more controlled and steady speed.

    just because its orange and its flying doesnt meen it has to be a chinese lantern.

    :pac:
    Wizard007 wrote: »
    No problem, enjoy the match :)

    I did see somthing you know? I wasn't making it up :rolleyes:

    Be good :p


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    Wizard007
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    Like I said before it was too steady to be a chineese lantern. It was also too bright. And I wasn't freaked at all to be honest - I think they were friendly :p

    Seriously though, it wasn't a lantern. Himself here is starting to take the pi$$ now too. He saw it also but now he's saying it was triangular with lights :rolleyes:


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    maroon
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    we are being researched on a regular basis - in my modest opinion :)
    whatever it is we should just keep our mind open.

    Wizard007 wrote: »
    Like I said before it was too steady to be a chineese lantern. It was also too bright. And I wasn't freaked at all to be honest - I think they were friendly :p

    Seriously though, it wasn't a lantern. Himself here is starting to take the pi$$ now too. He saw it also but now he's saying it was triangular with lights :rolleyes:


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    Wizard007
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    I am keeping my mind open, and my eyes ;)


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    Shayman
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    It would be very arrogant to believe we are the only form of intellegent life in the universe. The only thing that ever bothers me about it is that those out there could/probably way more intellegent than us?:o


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    Wizard007
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    Shayman wrote: »
    It would be very arrogant to believe we are the only form of intellegent life in the universe. The only thing that ever bothers me about it is that those out there could/probably way more intellegent than us?:o
    That wouldn't be too hard for them at all :p


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    Bolt82
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    Well lets face it. If they find our world before we found there they are more likely to be more intellegent then us. The fact that they figured out how to travel such distences before we did kinda shows if they do exist and are already looking over us they are surely more intellegent then we are


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    Wizard007
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    I'm after turning the interweb insideout and the you tube or google results I'm finding for those bloody lanterns are not even remotely like what I saw. It wasn't a glow.

    The truth is out there Bolt, the truth is out there :)


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    dlofnep
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    It was a chinese lantern. It's the chinese new year. Lots of sightings of these. Move along.


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    Wizard007
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    dlofnep wrote: »
    It was a chinese lantern. It's the chinese new year. Lots of sightings of these. Move along.

    No it wasn't. You're entitled to your opinion as I am to mine :)

    It was not a lantern!


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    Bolt82
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    dlofnep wrote: »
    It was a chinese lantern. It's the chinese new year. Lots of sightings of these. Move along.

    Who would be releasing chinese lanterns at about 2 or 3 in the morning? Im not saying they werent but the ones i saw didnt look like they were being controled by the wind which lanterns would be. One stayed exactly still while the other moved and changed directions.


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