Did I see 2 UFO's last night?

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Jenny

After seeing the posts on here last night, I kept looking outside to see if I could see any shooting stars. About midnight, I put a bag of rubbish out, and as I was going back inside I looked up and saw two red/orange glowing orb shaped lights moving across the sky.

Ah, I thought. I didn't realise they were coloured! Then I thought, hang on, they are going too slow to be shooting stars, had no tail and I'm sure they were going in the wrong direction.

I watched them continue on their way, not in a straight line, and not cooridinated. After they'd gone some distance, I stopped seeing one, don't know if it went out or behind clouds, and the other continued until it was too small to see.

I thought, no they couldn't be UFOs could they? My logical side said no, but I don't know for sure.

Do you think I saw UFOs? Or do you think there was some other explanation, such as Chinese lanterns or the like? BTW I hadn't had anything to drink!

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Enthusiastic ContrafibularitiesMember 10 years

Yes you did because they are (to you) unidentified, they were flying and they were objects.

They were not necessarily from another world. I think that if you had a night scope and looked at them, you would have more than likely seen what they actually were.

8/16/091:37 AM

DanceSetteeMember

police helicopters

8/16/091:38 AM

JennyMember

quote:
Originally posted by DanceSettee:
police helicopters

Definitely not! No noise whatsoever, and their positioning if they had been helicopters would have meant I would have heard them.

Besides, we get enough police helicopters over here for me to know if I'd seen one!

8/16/091:43 AM

JennyMember

quote:
Originally posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Yes you did because they are (to you) unidentified, they were flying and they were objects.

They were not necessarily from another world. I think that if you had a night scope and looked at them, you would have more than likely seen what they actually were.

True!

8/16/091:44 AM

Garage JoeMember

If you look up in the blue sky of daytime you will often see airliners at 30k feet. Imagine what they look like at night.
Alternatively satellites are often visible.
Nothing from another world has appeared..... as yet.

8/16/091:47 AM

DanceSetteeMember

quote:
Originally posted by Jenny:
quote:
Originally posted by DanceSettee:
police helicopters

Definitely not! No noise whatsoever, and their positioning if they had been helicopters would have meant I would have heard them.

Besides, we get enough police helicopters over here for me to know if I'd seen one!

If they are far enough away you can't hear them, but they do have those coloured lights and make quite erratic movements....I get helicopters like that here quite often and have been spooked by them

until they come close enough to hear.

8/16/091:47 AM

JennyMember

No, they really were relatively close so I would readily discount helicopters or planes.

My logical side thinks they must have been those Chinese lantern things. I've never seen one in action before, but looking them up on google, I think I would have to plump for them. My mind just wouldn't accept they were really UFOs!

8/16/091:54 AM

Garage JoeMember

quote:
Originally posted by Jenny:
No, they really were relatively close so I would readily discount helicopters or planes.

My logical side thinks they must have been those Chinese lantern things. I've never seen one in action before, but looking them up on google, I think I would have to plump for them. My mind just wouldn't accept they were really UFOs!

Yes! Sorry! I confess I didn't read the bit about direction 'cos I'm still a little

8/16/091:56 AM

queenshaksMember

Jenny....back away slowly from the drinks cabinet.

8/16/092:20 AM

JennyMember

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Originally posted by queenshaks:
Jenny....back away slowly from the drinks cabinet.

If I drank, I would!

8/16/092:35 AM

HeartacheMember

Pity you did'nt have a camera or camcorder handy.

8/16/092:38 AM

innaisMember

This happened to us last year! We discovered they are ufo balloons, you can see videos of them on youtube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7pKbXU2Atc

8/16/092:43 AM

JennyMember

quote:
Originally posted by innais:
This happened to us last year! We discovered they are ufo balloons, you can see videos of them on youtube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7pKbXU2Atc

Apart from they were glowing red/orange all the time they were in sight, they were like those. I think I'll take that as the explanation.

8/16/093:02 AM

Former Member

Alien invasions only happen at Christmas time, so I would have to say they weren't aliens.

8/16/093:03 AM

JennyMember

quote:
Originally posted by Heartache:
Pity you did'nt have a camera or camcorder handy.

Yes, I didn't think quick enough. My camera was right on the table nearby too!

8/16/093:03 AM

CaptVimesMember 10 years

whats the best time to pull a prank? When half the country is looking at the sky.

8/16/094:28 AM

DirtyprettygirlthingMember

They weren't satellite were they?

I spent two days gazing at what I had thought was Mars.... only to be told I was looking at a satellite in orbit!

Doh!

8/16/094:32 AM

Karma_Member

I saw a UFO in 1977 and Elvis was on the tele in a white sparkly suit. (I was only 4) It was in the paper the next day too cos everyone was going nuts and calling the police. What could the police have done though? Tell them to put down their weapons or they'll shiit?

8/16/094:38 AM

Karma_Member

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Originally posted by Karma_:
I saw a UFO in 1977 and Elvis was on the tele in a white sparkly suit. (I was only 4) It was in the paper the next day too cos everyone was going nuts and calling the police. What could the police have done though? Tell them to put down their weapons or they'll shiit?

SHOOT. I MEANT SHOOT

8/16/094:39 AM

innaisMember

quote:
Originally posted by Karma_:
I saw a UFO in 1977 and Elvis was on the tele in a white sparkly suit. (I was only 4) It was in the paper the next day too cos everyone was going nuts and calling the police. What could the police have done though? Tell them to put down their weapons or they'll shiit?

Lol, Karma....when we saw the lanterns last year we felt too silly to call the police but we called Manchester Airport to see what they could tell us but they knew nothing about it. It's like.....what do you DO when you see something strange in the sky?

It was exciting at the time to think we'd seen three ufo's in a triangle formation but we saw the funny side when we discovered what they really were. Glad we didn't phone the police too! lol

8/16/094:44 AM

Karma_Member

Hahaha!!

Well I remember it as clear as a bell. It was night time and I was looking out the window and I saw summat in the sky and thought it was a plane or a helicopter, but it was still and kept changing colours (red, orange, blue, green) then it would suddenly dart (really fast) across the sky to somewhere else and go all still again. Did this for about 2 hours until it darted off and disappeared. I remember everyone was out of their houses and cars stopped and everything. I was brickin it cos I thought they were gonna take me and Elvis away

8/16/094:47 AM

innaisMember

quote:
Originally posted by Karma_:
Hahaha!!

Well I remember it as clear as a bell. It was night time and I was looking out the window and I saw summat in the sky and thought it was a plane or a helicopter, but it was still and kept changing colours (red, orange, blue, green) then it would suddenly dart (really fast) across the sky to somewhere else and go all still again. Did this for about 2 hours until it darted off and disappeared. I remember everyone was out of their houses and cars stopped and everything. I was brickin it cos I thought they were gonna take me and Elvis away

Awwwwww

8/16/094:51 AM

Karma_Member

quote:
Originally posted by innais:
quote:
Originally posted by Karma_:
Hahaha!!

Well I remember it as clear as a bell. It was night time and I was looking out the window and I saw summat in the sky and thought it was a plane or a helicopter, but it was still and kept changing colours (red, orange, blue, green) then it would suddenly dart (really fast) across the sky to somewhere else and go all still again. Did this for about 2 hours until it darted off and disappeared. I remember everyone was out of their houses and cars stopped and everything. I was brickin it cos I thought they were gonna take me and Elvis away

Awwwwww

I was only 4

I hid my favourite doll in the oven aswell and her head melted cos me mum had been baking earlier

8/16/094:54 AM

CheekyPixieMember

Exciting stuff Jenny! I think many people have seen things that they can't explain in the sky, and I have seen things occasionally and have not known what they were, but there is a 99% chance it was something from this planet, or bits of debris from meteorites. But there is still a small chance it MAY be something from another world.

And I think if something WAS spotted, NASA would keep it well quiet!

8/16/094:57 AM

fookatMember

chinese lanterns. We saw two a few weeks ago and were convinced they were UFOs and then I looked on the net and found out they look just like chinese lanterns

8/16/095:34 AM

SpiderMonkeyMember

Roughly, what altitude were they at?

8/16/095:38 AM

Former Member

what you have described sounds like a meteor. my grandfather in law is right into that and was describing just what you said yesterday. he said he thought it was a plane at first but it was too fast to be a plane but not fast enuf to be a shooting star (as we are used to) so he got the telescope out and it was a shooting star just a big orange slow one that did just burn out.

8/16/095:42 AM

SpiderMonkeyMember

The "speed" that a meteorite/shooting star moves at depends on the angle of entry into the earth's atmosphere. That is to say, the more acute the angle, the faster the speed will appear to be to a viewer stood on the ground looking upward.

The colour would be largely down to the content and make up of the particular object when subjected to the immense temperatures of entry. Something with a high iron content would burn orange/red.

8/16/095:58 AM

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