Weird Lights In The Sky Last Night

neo2010

Hey everyone,

I'm very skeptical when it comes to this subject, but what the hell was in the skies over Limerick City last night?

From my own back-garden at about eleven last night, I saw three odd looking lights moving erratically about the sky. Thought straight away that these we're chinese lanterns but the lights we're moving at incredible speeds and changing directions every 5 seconds or so.

The lights actually followed one another as they moved and we're definitely not aircraft -the maneuvers performed are just not possible.

Anybody see them? Two others in my house saw the very same thing - really really weird.

xsiborg

i'd sooner suggest given the time of year that it'd be fireworks rather than anything extra-terrestrial...

roast

Could be those fancy spotlight things that the nightclubs use to attract the zombies students in. Like the ones that Trinners used to shine in the sky?

Itsdacraic

Probably just a spaceship

neo2010

Nope, definitely were not fireworks.

I watched them for about five mins straight just moving around the sky. The lights moved at fast speeds, stopped dead air, changed direction and carried on flying on numerous occasions.

I thought it was a complete pile of crap until I noticed that the lights moved in correspondence with each other - it would be impossible for army jets or commercial airliners to move in the way these did.

I know the lights that the night clubs sometimes shine into the sky. These looked like stars - must have been really high up, but still very visible.

I hate all the conspiracy crap that goes on these days, but I really cannot explain what was in the sky last night.

xsiborg

surely you MUST have gotten a photo?

ShatterProof

Itsdacraic wrote: »

Probably just a spaceship

Nope, it was 3

neo2010

Yeah I was going to video record it but it was pretty cloudy last night.

Clear as day for anyone to see. The lights were basically flying around the same spot for just about five minutes.

Really strange, I've never seen anything like it.

Thought all those UFO spotters were short a few screws, but what was going on in the sky last night was not normal.

Insect Overlord

The Armadillo
"This is the time of year
when almost every night
the frail, illegal fire balloons appear.
Climbing the mountain height,

rising toward a saint
still honored in these parts,
the paper chambers flush and fill with light
that comes and goes, like hearts.

Once up against the sky it's hard
to tell them from the stars --
planets, that is -- the tinted ones:
Venus going down, or Mars,

or the pale green one. With a wind,
they flare and falter, wobble and toss;
but if it's still they steer between
the kite sticks of the Southern Cross,

receding, dwindling, solemnly
and steadily forsaking us,
or, in the downdraft from a peak,
suddenly turning dangerous.

Last night another big one fell.
It splattered like an egg of fire
against the cliff behind the house.
The flame ran down. We saw the pair

of owls who nest there flying up
and up, their whirling black-and-white
stained bright pink underneath, until
they shrieked up out of sight.

The ancient owls' nest must have burned.
Hastily, all alone,
a glistening armadillo left the scene,
rose-flecked, head down, tail down,

and then a baby rabbit jumped out,
short-eared, to our surprise.
So soft! -- a handful of intangible ash
with fixed, ignited eyes.

Too pretty, dreamlike mimicry!
O falling fire and piercing cry
and panic, and a weak mailed fist
clenched ignorant against the sky!"

- Elizabeth Bishop

dlofnep

Doesn't sound like Lanterns.

Insect Overlord

dlofnep wrote: »

Doesn't sound like Lanterns.

In that case, http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056434062

dlofnep

Insect Overlord wrote: »

In that case, http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056434062

Doesn't meet that criteria. The IIS follows a set path. The OP claims to have seen multiple objects, moving at high speeds in varied directions. So it's none of the above.

neo2010

I am positively certain it is not lanterns or fireworks.

A few others and I watched for minutes as they continued to fly, intelligently might I add, over the skies of the city ( I'm living two mins from city centre).

I would genuinely be the first to disprove this but you've gotta call a spade a spade - it was definitely something out of the ordinary.

These lights stayed in the same general airspace and just flew at high speeds from one end of the sky to the other - performing strange circle movements, flying around eachother and completely stopping in mid-air.

I would probably just think it was crap but the intricate movements and speeds are not possible with today's technology. I'm baffled anyway.

Rhys Essien

OP,check out the 'Pheonix lights' video on youtube.See were they anything like them.

neo2010

You know the completely crazy part - the lights in that video actually look quite similar.

The lights last night were dim enough because of the cloud cover - but they were as bright as stars and moved in a bunch of crazy ways.

Over the course of five minutes, I saw two of the lights actually flying and maneuvering in what can only be described as a synchronized fashion - I must stress the speed of these were unnatural to say the least.

The lights could easily have been seen by anyone living in the general environs of Limerick City.

Rhys Essien

"Whether we are alone in the Universe or we are not,either thought is frightening".- Arthur C Clarke.

tricky D

Chinese lanterns tied together. Speeds and directions can be quite deceptive.

neo2010

Nope, highly improbable.

These lights moved in together then separated - did this on numerous occasions.

I have never heard of lanterns that travel at speeds faster than a jet fighter - they tend to float, not propel themselves through the air.

INEEDANID

I saw them too this morning on the way to Shannon at about 07:30 when it was dark.

Weird like really fast red lights flashing. Too fast for a plane.

neo2010

I'd say a lot more people saw these lights - they were just too hard to miss.

I didn't think anything of it until I was shown by somebody else.

Stood outside in the cold gazing at them for at least five minutes.

dr.fuzzenstein

Same in Clare:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=75182359#post75182359

Mc Love

Insect Overlord wrote: »

The Armadillo
"This is the time of year
when almost every night
the frail, illegal fire balloons appear.
Climbing the mountain height,

rising toward a saint
still honored in these parts,
the paper chambers flush and fill with light
that comes and goes, like hearts.

Once up against the sky it's hard
to tell them from the stars --
planets, that is -- the tinted ones:
Venus going down, or Mars,

or the pale green one. With a wind,
they flare and falter, wobble and toss;
but if it's still they steer between
the kite sticks of the Southern Cross,

receding, dwindling, solemnly
and steadily forsaking us,
or, in the downdraft from a peak,
suddenly turning dangerous.

Last night another big one fell.
It splattered like an egg of fire
against the cliff behind the house.
The flame ran down. We saw the pair

of owls who nest there flying up
and up, their whirling black-and-white
stained bright pink underneath, until
they shrieked up out of sight.

The ancient owls' nest must have burned.
Hastily, all alone,
a glistening armadillo left the scene,
rose-flecked, head down, tail down,

and then a baby rabbit jumped out,
short-eared, to our surprise.
So soft! -- a handful of intangible ash
with fixed, ignited eyes.

Too pretty, dreamlike mimicry!
O falling fire and piercing cry
and panic, and a weak mailed fist
clenched ignorant against the sky!"

- Elizabeth Bishop

Oh look its President Michael D

RonMexico

It is impossible to accurately judge the speed/distance of an object in the sky at night.

I'd put my life-savings on the lights being lanterns blown about by the wind.

neo2010

Lads, I try to be rational with everything - not into the whole UFO business - but I can categorically state that it wasn't a lantern.

These lights zoomed from one end to the sky in to the other in about two seconds - how could a lantern achieve these kind of speeds.

They were racing about the sky for more than five minutes - not floating, actually racing at immeasurable speeds - and there were three. Unless somebody attached an advanced rocket to three lanterns, put pilots in them and let them loose for a few minutes, they weren't lanterns.

Insect Overlord

Could it be possible that it may have been light reflecting off insects a few metres above your heads, rather than something way up in the sky?

langdang

The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus

neo2010

Some outlandish theories there.:D

It was three lights, miles up in the air and moving around for about five minutes. My back-garden is paved in concrete so I highly doubt it was insects.

It was probably a weather balloon though - that seems to be the standard issue explanation for most of these happenings.:rolleyes:

krudler

was it a light that looked to flicker from yellow to red constantly? saw something in the sky above raheen around 1am

zuroph

Im still going to guess lanterns. they all moved in the same direction? wind. they changed direction? so did the wind. the speed? you've no frame of reference as you dont know how high up they are.
they're everywhere for halloween at the moment.

jonski

This is not aimed at the original poster but at any or all of these kind of posts . There are a few of ye , it goes on for more than five minutes and no one thinks to point their phone up at the sky and take a picture or a video ?

neo2010

It would have been pointless to record as It was too hazy for anybody to properly see.

That's the reason I started the thread - to see if anybody else saw them.

No disrespect Zuroph as you probably didn't see them but I have seen plenty of lanterns around and these literally went from one end of the sky to the other in a flash. How could lanterns travel that fast?

I could roughly estimate the altitude of these lights and they were definitely not in the range that lanterns float - this looked higher than commercial planes.

There really should be a hell of lot more people that saw these lights. They were flying right above Limerick City centre.