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    #32
    dlofnep
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    Bolt82 wrote: »
    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.

    Uh I dunno, chinese people?

    What does it matter what time it was at? My friend used to set them off all the time in the middle of the night - just to provoke reactions like yours.

    Trust me - it was most likely a chinese lantern. Orange glow, slow moving.. Chinese lantern all the way. Not to mention the fact it's the chinese new year - I've seen a good few of them alone this week.

    If they weren't lanterns - what do you suggest they were?


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    #33
    Bolt82
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭Bolt82


    I saw two at the same time one moving and changing direction which could be caused by the wind maybe but the other was staying in the very same place. So if one was movning cause of the wind why wasnt the other moving too? I saw mine about 3 or 4 months ago. Thats a long chinese new year :rolleyes:

    I dont know what they were. Since im from rosslare the first thing i thought of was a flare from the sea but then i saw the second one.

    I suppose thats why they are called UFOs They are unidentified flying objects. Im not sayin they are aliens or what ever but i just dont think what i saw was a lantern or 2 of them.


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    #34
    Wizard007
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    dlofnep wrote: »
    Uh I dunno, chinese people?

    What does it matter what time it was at? My friend used to set them off all the time in the middle of the night - just to provoke reactions like yours.

    Trust me - it was most likely a chinese lantern. Orange glow, slow moving.. Chinese lantern all the way. Not to mention the fact it's the chinese new year - I've seen a good few of them alone this week.

    If they weren't lanterns - what do you suggest they were?

    But it wasn't a "glow". It was like a big orange star. I've seen videos and pics of loads of lanterns on the web today and it was nothing what so ever like what I saw. Are you reading the whole thread at all? :rolleyes:


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    #35
    dlofnep
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    Bolt82 wrote: »
    I saw two at the same time one moving and changing direction which could be caused by the wind maybe but the other was staying in the very same place. So if one was movning cause of the wind why wasnt the other moving too?

    One could have caught by a gust of wind.
    Bolt82 wrote: »
    I saw mine about 3 or 4 months ago. Thats a long chinese new year :rolleyes:

    So what? They are let off all throughout the year.
    Bolt82 wrote: »
    I dont know what they were. Since im from rosslare the first thing i thought of was a flare from the sea but then i saw the second one.

    Maybe it was two flares? I doubt a flare would move slowly across the sky however.


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    #36
    dlofnep
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    Wizard007 wrote: »
    But it wasn't a "glow". It was like a big orange star. I've seen videos and pics of loads of lanterns on the web today and it was nothing what so ever like what I saw. Are you reading the whole thread at all? :rolleyes:

    Maybe it was a closer lantern?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmU_q5xrnto


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    #37
    Wizard007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Wizard007


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Maybe it was a closer lantern?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmU_q5xrnto

    I'm not even going to look at that video.

    IT
    WAS
    NOT
    A
    LANTERN
    !!!!!!!!!!!!


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    #38
    Bolt82
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    dlofnep wrote: »
    One could have caught by a gust of wind.
    The two were beside eachother when the moving one changed direction so a gust of wind would have moved both if it moved one


    dlofnep wrote: »
    So what? They are let off all throughout the year.
    So people say that they are being let off now cause now is the chinese new year. Not when i saw them. Thats why i said that.

    dlofnep wrote: »
    Maybe it was two flares? I doubt a flare would move slowly across the sky however.
    As i said i dont know what it was, all im saying is i know what it wasnt and dont know what it was. Thats all.


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    #39
    Wizard007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Wizard007


    Bolt82 wrote: »



    As i said i dont know what it was, all im saying is i know what it wasnt and dont know what it was. Thats all.

    Exactly!


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    #40
    Judgement Day
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    Wizard007 - you're beginning to sound like David Vincent...if I was you I would barricade myself in and wait for the balloon to go up as like in all the best movies nobody ever believes the whistleblower until it's too late. Back from the Twilight Zone (Ireland v France) more terrible than anything than anything that may fall from the sky and I promise I won't post here again, really. :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-jzblCbsuA


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    #41
    xsjado
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    LMFAO reading this thread :D

    lads, calm down, they were lanterns. friends of mine set them off that night. END of.


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    #42
    Wizard007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Wizard007


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    Wizard007 - you're beginning to sound like David Vincent...if I was you I would barricade myself in and wait for the balloon to go up as like in all the best movies nobody ever believes the whistleblower until it's too late. Back from the Twilight Zone (Ireland v France) more terrible than anything than anything that may fall from the sky and I promise I won't post here again, really. :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-jzblCbsuA

    Sorry about Ireland and France, terrible outcome :mad:

    I'm not going to barricade myself in cos I'm not afraid of them at all :)

    You see, some of the above are convincing themselves that they were lanterns cos they do not want to even begin to believe that there is something out there.

    Like Bolt said, I don't know what it was, but I do know what it wasn't. Just because it is the opinion of some people that it was a lantern that doesn't mean it was, they didn't see what I saw. And I don't care really.


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    #43
    dlofnep
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    Wizard007 wrote: »
    I'm not even going to look at that video.

    IT
    WAS
    NOT
    A
    LANTERN
    !!!!!!!!!!!!

    Did you see it up close to verify that?


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    #44
    Wizard007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Wizard007


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Did you see it up close to verify that?

    No I didn't. I saw what was like a big orange star and travelling at a solid steady pace. Not a lantern.

    How can you be so sure that what I saw was a lantern? You weren't standing in my lawn?


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    #45
    Bolt82
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭Bolt82


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Did you see it up close to verify that?

    Did you see it close up to verify it was a lantern?


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    #46
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Wizard007 wrote: »
    No I didn't. I saw what was like a big orange star and travelling at a solid steady pace. Not a lantern.

    That sounds exactly like a lantern.
    Wizard007 wrote: »
    How can you be so sure that what I saw was a lantern? You weren't standing in my lawn?

    I can't be sure of anything. I can only go by your description. It sounds like a lantern. You seem convinced that it's not, without stating exactly why.


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    #47
    Sleipnir
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    Op, why did you bother posting this? What do you want people to say?

    "I saw a bright orange light travelling at a steady pace across the sky. What was it?"
    "It was a chinese lantern"
    "No it wasn't. What was it?"
    "Really, a chinese lantern"
    "No it wasn't. What was it?"
    "A chinese lantern"
    "no it wasn't. What was it?"


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    #48
    xsjado
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭xsjado


    WIZARD007 - it was lantern. i already told you friends of mine set them off that night, he and his friends have never laughed so much from reading this thread and all the fuss made abaout it. in fact, showed a few friends in the pub last night, we al had a good laught about it really.

    hes willing to set more off for you, any time and in the same area if you want to SHOW you that thats what they were.

    Get your head out of the clouds ;)


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    #49
    Wizard007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Wizard007


    dlofnep wrote: »
    You seem convinced that it's not, without stating exactly why.

    Because I've youtubed and googled lanterns half to death and I have not seen anything that even remotely looks like what I saw.

    Why are you so convinced that it was a lantern?


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    #50
    Wizard007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Wizard007


    xsjado wrote: »
    WIZARD007 - FFS, it was lantern. i already told you friends of mine set them off that night, he and his friends have never laughed so much from reading this thread and all the fuss made abaout it. in fact, showed a few friends in the pub last night, we al had a good laught about it really.

    hes willing to set more off for you, any time and in the same area if you want to SHOW you that thats what they were.

    Get your head out of the clouds ;)

    Don't bother. Stay in the pub for yourself.

    My head is not in the clouds smart ar$e.


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    #51
    xsjado
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭xsjado


    wizard007.....:confused:

    facepalm.jpg


    no, actually...

    DoubleFacePalm.jpg


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    #52
    Wizard007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Wizard007


    Sleipnir wrote: »
    Op, why did you bother posting this? What do you want people to say?

    "I saw a bright orange light travelling at a steady pace across the sky. What was it?"
    "It was a chinese lantern"
    "No it wasn't. What was it?"
    "Really, a chinese lantern"
    "No it wasn't. What was it?"
    "A chinese lantern"
    "no it wasn't. What was it?"

    Because I wanted to know if anyone else saw anything. That's all. You're not very nice are you?


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    #53
    dlofnep
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    Wizard007 wrote: »
    Because I've youtubed and googled lanterns half to death and I have not seen anything that even remotely looks like what I saw.

    Why are you so convinced that it was a lantern?

    You said it looked like an orange star. That's exactly what Lanterns look like. Anything high in the sky, that has something burning in it will resemble an orange star.

    So if it was just an orange star, it means there was no detail - just a central point of lighting flickering - which moved slowly across the sky. Sounds exactly like a Lantern. Seriously.


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    #54
    Chiarrai
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭Chiarrai


    xsjado wrote: »
    WIZARD007 - it was lantern. i already told you friends of mine set them off that night, he and his friends have never laughed so much from reading this thread and all the fuss made abaout it. in fact, showed a few friends in the pub last night, we al had a good laught about it really.

    hes willing to set more off for you, any time and in the same area if you want to SHOW you that thats what they were.

    Get your head out of the clouds ;)



    Hey xsjado,
    You don't know me I'm from Kerry but we know the same guy who set them off there that night (surfer) :D PMSL !!!!!
    He sent it on to me via Cork yesterday and everyone has been breakin' their s#ite laughin' ever since :D

    The 007 chick can't be told man, lol


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    #55
    Wizard007
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    Immaturity at its best!!!


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    #56
    xsjado
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭xsjado


    no, facepalm at its best ;)


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    #57
    Overature
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    yeah it was glow of lights from that awesome city they call Dublin
    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?


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    #58
    testicle
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    It was those magnificent men in their flying machines!


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    #59
    [Deleted User]
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    **** lads - report the posts if they are getting this moronic.

    Thread locked, trolls infracted.


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