Orange UFO's

[Average Joe]

Originally Posted by kriya

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piUSg...eature=related

This is similar to what I saw on Christmas Day. Filmed on Boxing Day in the rain not far from me.

Dunno about this chinese lantern theory?

Love,

Kriya

Yep, it's a chinese lantern.

If people want to believe that it is something else then more fool them, and more laughs for the people that set these things off.

[john-d]

Update :

Me and my partner seen another 2 in sheffield on the 27th dec while driving . It was about 10.30pm , we could see one aprox 1 mile ahead of us traveling at a right angle to us ( it seemed to be dropping smaller orange things). I got my partner to put her foot down to try and intercept it but it faded into the clouds . We pulled into a pub car park to turn around (slightly disapointed) and straight away there was another one , much closer and faster , going in the same direction that we had been travelling . We both got out of the car and started asking it to 'come here and dont go ' ( looking like loonies ) and it did seem to slow down but then carried on and faded into the clouds too .
Ive been waiting 38 years to see a ufo and now ive seen 3 in 2 months!
Sheffield does seem to be a hot spot for some reason , we have been looking on the sheffield forum and there have been hundreds of sightings over the last few months .
Exciting times me thinks . Would love to know more about them .

John

[john-d]

Originally Posted by Average Joe

Yep, it's a chinese lantern.

If people want to believe that it is something else then more fool them, and more laughs for the people that set these things off.

No no no , i have seen chinese lanterns , they just get carried by the wind . These are vehicles moving by their own steam . I can understand why you would say that they are lanterns , the colour is very similar . If you watched one go straight over you , then you would realise that it is something completely different . besides , the last two that we saw were moving at right angles to each other . and the first one had a light moving side to side (only noticable when directly overhead).
Sorry to pop your comfort bubble but most of these people seeing these things know the difference between a lantern and a craft .
John

[Average Joe]

Originally Posted by john-d

No no no , i have seen chinese lanterns , they just get carried by the wind . These are vehicles moving by their own steam . I can understand why you would say that they are lanterns , the colour is very similar . If you watched one go straight over you , then you would realise that it is something completely different . besides , the last two that we saw were moving at right angles to each other . and the first one had a light moving side to side (only noticable when directly overhead).
Sorry to pop your comfort bubble but most of these people seeing these things know the difference between a lantern and a craft .
John

Whatever John. If you want to believe they are not lanterns then fine. You just described classic lanterns until you added in later "they moved at right angles to one another". Why not mention that it the first place? Why only add it as a rebuke to my statement?

Everybody is letting these things off it is a great fad.

This whole chinese lantern thing is obfuscating real UFO sightings for me.

[john-d]

Originally Posted by Average Joe

Whatever John. If you want to believe they are not lanterns then fine. You just described classic lanterns until you added in later "they moved at right angles to one another". Why not mention that it the first place? Why only add it as a rebuke to my statement?

Everybody is letting these things off it is a great fad.

This whole chinese lantern thing is obfuscating real UFO sightings for me.

Your mistaken , read the first post again .

John

[Average Joe]

Originally Posted by john-d

Your mistaken , read the first post again .

John

I read the first post again and nowhere did you mention 2 orbs travelling at right angles to each other, just an orb floating through the sky projecting a beam.

[Gingernutmonkey]

Eyup all you fellow Northerners.. Very interested to read these posts, I live in Doncaster close to Barnsley and Sheffield. I had the orange light fly past the house on the 24th and the 26th about 9pm on the 24th and about 9.30 on the 26th. Of course living in Doncaster the first thing you think of is the police heli out and about but when you don't hear a sound and the thing moves that fast you soon realise it's not. The light was flying at around 2000 feet in a North Easterly direction.. slight pulsation but no sound, from the distance covered in the time it was in my sight I would have to say it was flying around 200 kts. It seems we have a bit of a hot spot on our hands... eyes to the skies guy's.

[Average Joe]

Oh God I give up.

I saw them too on the 24th and 25th, but I knew what they were.

These things are set of at celebrations, funny then that there'd be plenty about during the Christmas hols!

[Gingernutmonkey]

Hey Average I'm sure that what you saw were lanterns and that you are quite happy in the knowledge that someone somewhere was having a great Christmas lighting these things and sending them on there merry way.... I'm also sure that what I saw was not a lantern and was not let loose by some happy clapper on a Christmas high... I'm glad we have a space where all our views can be shared and people of like mind can meet and discuss, not sure that the suppression of ideas and thoughts is appropriate or indeed welcome.

[Average Joe]

On the day in question, your area was under a westerly, south westerly wind. Your object was travelling north east. As a balloon would do under a westerly, south westerly wind.

Your object "pulsated". Lanterns "flicker".

It was Christmas, a time of celebration.

I saw lanterns myself, as did many others in many other parts of the country.

See where I'm coming from? A lot of evidence points to lanterns. No evidence whatsoever points to it not being lanterns other than your estimate of speed really.

Not trying to pick on you here, but everybody thinks they are the one that has seen something which wasn't a lantern during a rash of lantern flights.

But yeah, maybe I'm wrong and yours wasn't one of the lanterns.

[Gingernutmonkey]

You see how easy was that... Room for all... I do admire the amount of background work you put in, well done for that. I am interested where you got your wind at 2k from.. At work on the 26th my wind correction for the met forecast was way off?

[Average Joe]

Originally Posted by Gingernutmonkey

You see how easy was that... Room for all... I do admire the amount of background work you put in, well done for that. I am interested where you got your wind at 2k from.. At work on the 26th my wind correction for the met forecast was way off?

The wind at 2k is irrelevant as you said the object was at 2,000ft. Not 2,000m.

2,000 metres or feet, how do you know?

The wind was from a westerly direction on both the 24th and 26th.

I'll let you into a little secret, first time I saw a lantern i had a similar conversation to the one we are having now with somebody else, except I was you. Bottom line is I wanted to believe my orange orb was different and I just would not be told otherwise.

[Gingernutmonkey]

More info is required SOS pilot short hand... 2k would be 2000ft.. and the hight is important becase the wind at different hights can be moving in very different directions... Hanse the comment about actual being way off the forecast.. But hey ho what do I know.. Lantern or not it gave us a chance to chat...

[Average Joe]

Originally Posted by john-d

Your mistaken , read the first post again .

John

Originally Posted by Gingernutmonkey

More info is required SOS pilot short hand... 2k would be 2000ft.. and the hight is important becase the wind at different hights can be moving in very different directions... Hanse the comment about actual being way off the forecast.. But hey ho what do I know.. Lantern or not it gave us a chance to chat...

Yes I am well aware of the different wind speeds and directions at various levels, I'll say that meteorology is one of my big areas of interest. I did not know that 2k = 2,000ft in pilot speak, thanks for that. And yes, I know what the wind directions were on the dates in question, both the forecast and actualities.

Like I said on an earlier post, perhaps I'm wrong and it wasn't a lantern you saw, but at the moment there is a lot more evidence for than against.

Also, ask yourself why these objects are mostly spotted on weekends or holidays, after dark but usually before midnight?

[Gingernutmonkey]

As I said I'm interested where your getting your wind speeds from... Small point but I'm interested so please indulge me? I think we are going to have to agree to disagree interms of the lantern issue, as interesting as this conversation has been.. I hope to chat again..

[Average Joe]

I never mentioned windspeed, only direction. The direction matches the direction your orb travelled. I am only using facts.

[Gingernutmonkey]

Ok so where are you getting your info from?

[Average Joe]

Try Wetterzentrale mate, there are millions of sources of current and historical data. It's not hard.

On top of that, with the recent abundant snowfalls attacking different parts of the country from different angles, I've been keeping a very close eye on developing situations, needless to say I know which way the wind was blowing over northern England, and its still fresh in the memory!

[Gingernutmonkey]

Don't get me wrong there isn't a doubt in my mind that you spend a load of time looking at wind direction, maybe you do it for a living... Tell me in your estimation what the wind speed would need to be to get one of these lanterns moving at 180kt to 200kt... Giz a shout if ya need any help workin it out I'm sure all the info will be on ya web site .. Things to consider object is made of paper and is unpowered apart from the flicker of course... I guess while ya lookin maybe ya could check the web site to find out when we last had winds of the speed reqired to achieve that speed outside the jet stream? As I said if ya need a hand give me a shout!

[Average Joe]

The one thing that you are missing is that your estimation of the object's speed, is just that, an estimation.

I'd assume a paper lantern would travel at the speed of the wind, and the direction of the wind, at the altitude it is at.

I'd assume that your estimation of height, and therefore speed, could be accurate, or it could be miles out.

[Gingernutmonkey]

More info required.... I have to admit and I should have mentioned this earlier I instruct heli and fixed wing and have done for the last 10yrs.. I'm use to as you put it estimating speed, hight and erm distance. In my first post I did mention the speed and hight and the ground covered in the time I had it in my sight.. If you combine all these elements you can make pretty good estimates. I do admit I didn't mention this was a half mile away... I would say that even an amature would be able to tell the difference between 20kt and 200kt at that distance. If I remember we were working with 15kt winds in the morning of the 26th with no sig change expected! So the puzzling thing is how did that tea light powered paper lantern get up to such speeds. Interesting I'm sure you'll agree! But I do agree with you on the wind direction I just checked my flight log NNE@15kt...

[gita]

Originally Posted by john-d

Last month me and my partner watched an orange UFO fly directly over us while driving home one evening in Sheffield England . It was a very strange looking orb and had what looked like a beam of the same colour orange light moving back and forth in the direction it was heading . It looked like the beam was shining off the undercarriage of it ( we could only see the beam while it was directly over us). It was very exciting , im 39 and have always wanted to see one . We managed to record it on a phone after it had passed us but all you can see is an orange dot .
When we got home we started looking around the net for info and found that there are thousands of people seeing them at the moment .
I was wondering if there is anyone here that has seen them or if anyone has any info about them ?

Cheers

John

I live in Plymouth and for the last 10 days I’ve noticed every night a few bright red lights always coming from the same direction and they would eventually change their colour to white and looked like moving stars.

However last night I looked out my back door (just after midnight) and there were dozens of them all heading west from east. My daughter at the same time looked out the front of the house and saw dozens more travelling north to south! My first thoughts were that they must be lanterns but I couldn’t figure out why they weren’t all travelling the same directions. I also noticed that some were extremely red whilst others were orange and as hard as I tried I did not see any flickering. There were also some that would travel much faster than others. Some would speed up to the ones in front and then would slow down to the same speed which I found quite odd. The sky was extremely clear with full moon and I observed this for over 20 minutes and then I went indoors as it was so darn cold and my neck began to hurt.

Very interesting and the feeling that I was left with was not a good one – but they were pleasing on the eye!

[Swanny]

I saw another one last night IMO definitely a lantern

[Mark]

A friend has just called and told me of a sighting last night over Redditch, my home town. Typical, head in a book and I miss all the action. At around 12.30 last night - the waking part of 2010 - ten orange glowing objects could be seen from various parts over the town, then another appeared.

By all account, these sound like the same has the one that I saw a few months ago. After doing a very quick search, I saw that these lights are a nightly thing over the U.K.

I'm fed up now with lights, I want to meet the fliers of those shiny orange balls of controversy. Am I asking too much? Or am a prepared for what I shall find?

Love and Light...(Doh, more lights)...