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D B Sweeney
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Not a lantern as it was just white and no flickering.
Why would that rule out a Chinese Lantern?
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bitterbuck1
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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Exactly how far up can these chinese lanterns go?
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D B Sweeney
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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| bitterbuck1 wrote: | Exactly how far up can these chinese lanterns go?
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Depends on the wind speed Bitter. If there's no wind they'll go straight up and carry on ascending until the burner goes out (up to a mile in some cases).
In relation to lantern/balloonss being mistaken for alien spacecraft here's a good article:
http://www.ufo-blog.com/ifos/ufo_balloons/ifo_ufo_balloons.htm
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bitterbuck1
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:01 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the link DB.
Interesting that these 'lanterns' go as far back as
200AD. |
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Agentscott
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:25 am Post subject: |
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| It had an engine sound a low hum so it wasn't a lantern also it wasn' windy and this thing was shifting quite rapidly. |
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D B Sweeney
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:28 am Post subject: |
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How can you be sure the hum was coming from the UFO and not somewhere else?.
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Agentscott
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:30 am Post subject: |
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| it was going along with it the sound then the light and it fitted as it passed over fading as it went. |
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D B Sweeney
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:34 am Post subject: |
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| Agentscott wrote: | | it was going along with it the sound then the light and it fitted as it passed over fading as it went. |
Sounds like an aircraft to me. If it looks like a plane, flies like a plane and sounds like a plane...it's probably a plane or if you hear hoofbeats, think horses not Zebras 
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Agentscott
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:39 am Post subject: |
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But a plane without regulation lights?
How can that be explaned? |
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bitterbuck1
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Agentscott wrote: | But a plane without regulation lights?
How can that be explaned? |
Maybe be it was a drug runner.
At times near our boarder with Mexico you'll hear of planes
flying 'under the radar' and with no lights as they drop the
drugs in the desert.
Just an idea. |
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Agentscott
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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Now theers a thougt I hadn't considered.
Then again I didn't see any stuff being droped off! |
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D B Sweeney
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| Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 5:10 am Post subject: |
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| Agentscott wrote: | But a plane without regulation lights?
How can that be explaned? |
Have you considered the possibility that at the angle you saw it at and the position you saw it from you may not have been able to see the full complement of lights?.
I frequently see planes on approach to Edinburgh and from certain angles and locations relative to the aircraft only a very bright white light is seen.
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Agentscott
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| Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 5:35 am Post subject: |
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Maybe, it was likley the ISS passing at a weird angle.
Then again perhaps it wasn't...thats the thing with minor sightings like that, you just have to many possible explanations. |
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carlos2010
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| Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 5:58 am Post subject: |
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If it was a military spy plane, then surley it would be exempt from permanently operating marker lights? Doubt the F117 had them on during military operations in the gulf war.
Nothing quite like £10 million going down the drain thanks to saving £2.50 for a switch.
On the subject of wind (no laughing please), it may be still and calm at ground level, but maybe at 200 feet the wind speed is greatly increased.
You also say you were in an orchard? How dense were the trees? how far in were you?
You may of been sheltered from stroger winds on the opposite side of the orchard. |
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Agentscott
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| Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 7:00 am Post subject: |
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Yes carlos this was likley explanable with something like that, it didn't do anything out of the ordinary.
Wind was up at the time but we was out of the trees and on an open grassy bit.
What we need is a sighting that performs and that I have had 3 times but yes this was just odd.
I think though anyplane must have standard lights to warn other craft it's presence even fighters.
In the sea it's law to have port and starboard on any vessel and I think it;'s the same in the sky. |
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