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Um..... holy WTF? Is there an explanation for this. O___O;
14 years ago
Every night for like, the last decade, I've been walking around my neighborhood for exercise. Aside from a few meteorites I've never really seen anything particularly noteworthy in the sky. Here is what I saw tonight: (Just for reference, I live in Southwest Florida, Punta Gorda.)
Three orange lights traveled slowly north across the night sky. At first I thought they were planes flying in a line formation, one in front of the other. They were not evenly spaced; the last two were closer together, the front light being further ahead. As I watched them move towards me, it became clear they were not very far off. In fact, they couldn't have been more than a few hundred yards up in the sky. I've seen planes go by a zillion times on my walks and I know how far and fast they move in relation to the stars and landmarks in view. These were not any kind of plane I've ever seen. The crafts were totally silent. I kept waiting to hear some kind of noise because I know sometimes the noise lags behind but there was no noise. They were absolutely silent.
Here's where it gets REALLY weird. I looked over at the last light in the formation as they went by. When I looked back to the craft at the front, it was gone. Only two were left! I kept looking around but it was gone. The other two kept going in the same direction and as I watched, the second one began to dim. Then it vanished. Finally, the last one dimmed and vanished as well.
I'm not some kinda conspiracy nutter. In all likelihood they were some kind of military aircraft....... right? O__O; Also, for the record, other people have reported strange lights in the area. Hell, my GF told me she saw something funky in the sky and I blew her off. :P
Anyone with any military knowledge have any idea what the crap those things could have been? And DO NOT say swamp gas or I will flog you. >X}
Three orange lights traveled slowly north across the night sky. At first I thought they were planes flying in a line formation, one in front of the other. They were not evenly spaced; the last two were closer together, the front light being further ahead. As I watched them move towards me, it became clear they were not very far off. In fact, they couldn't have been more than a few hundred yards up in the sky. I've seen planes go by a zillion times on my walks and I know how far and fast they move in relation to the stars and landmarks in view. These were not any kind of plane I've ever seen. The crafts were totally silent. I kept waiting to hear some kind of noise because I know sometimes the noise lags behind but there was no noise. They were absolutely silent.
Here's where it gets REALLY weird. I looked over at the last light in the formation as they went by. When I looked back to the craft at the front, it was gone. Only two were left! I kept looking around but it was gone. The other two kept going in the same direction and as I watched, the second one began to dim. Then it vanished. Finally, the last one dimmed and vanished as well.
I'm not some kinda conspiracy nutter. In all likelihood they were some kind of military aircraft....... right? O__O; Also, for the record, other people have reported strange lights in the area. Hell, my GF told me she saw something funky in the sky and I blew her off. :P
Anyone with any military knowledge have any idea what the crap those things could have been? And DO NOT say swamp gas or I will flog you. >X}
http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/158329
My brain computed 3 lights traveling across the sky that slowly faded out.... that seems pretty simple. There's nothing there for my brain to go WTF at. Maybe if they'd started flashing and doing loopdeloops or something, ok. But no. The whole scene was very simple. I mean basically you're accusing me of having a hallucination or something. That actually sounds a lot sillier to me than the idea that it could be military craft.
Besides, your suggestion doesn't get us any closer to answering what the hell it was in any case, so military craft of some kind (where did you get the badly hushed-up thing from? Maybe not hushed up at all, if flying quite clearly low through the sky.)
Sorry, I just didn't really understand your point, not trying to be snarky if it comes across that way- I'm overtired. :3 Merry Christmas!
*reads the new posts anyways*
No but seriously, my only logical explanation is some group of kids/easily amused adults learned a light trick or do it from time to time, and the effect makes it feel much more distant then it actually is... without sound or even trails/after effects, I can't honestly say its a completely silent aircraft~ but I could be wrong... heck it could be a tiny toy plane with lights on it XD
I know these things, I've eaten squid you know! -smugface-
Seriously though, I'm not sure what it could be. Could be chinese lanterns. They're like a base with a paper chute and you light them, they fill with hot air, and float away for miles. We put some out during the 4th of July this year. They didn't seem to go much higher than a certain point, maybe 500 or so feet, just letting the wind carry them along. It could also be military parachute flares. Though they burn very, very brightly. Like almost blinding bright, being fueled with magnesium, they will illuminate a massive area for a few minutes kinda just slowly moving along.
The other kind is launched from a 37mm grenade launcher (37mm is the legal civilian version of the 40mm military grenade launcher. The civilian launchers can only fire non-lethal ordinance like flares and smoke.) and it is deployed the same way. It's shot out of the launcher and it deploys after a given distance where it then floats over the area it was launched. These are also the brighter ones, having the magnesium fuel.
Now I say they float because due to the heat generated by the fuel used in these flares, it provides upward lift on the parachute it's hung from, much like a hot air balloon, which gives it an extremely slow rate of descent. It will also be acted upon by any winds in the area, so if the wind catches it right and carries it, it's possible.
But anyway this is just a theory for what you saw. And I guess maybe you learned something new? :3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XKpY8MTyQ8
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/.....lightning.html
Most of my sightings did occur in areas near Air Force bases, though, so maybe that has something to do with it. I know they weren't planes, though (none that I'm familiar with, at any rate.)
This is about bedtime for young kids right?
The coincidence of this occurring at bedtime on christmas eve is highly suspect, since this is when parents are normally telling their kids that if they don't go to bed, Santa won't come. : p
I think I'll lay off the diet coke for the rest of the evening.
I've seen plenty of them 'Triangle' UFO's through my friends pair of Yukon's at night, they're damn far up there, possibly even orbit. No, not all are satellites flying in a formation, as orbiting satellite don't make abrupt vector changes.
UFO's, simple as that. And I'll just say now since most seem to have issues discerning aliens from UFO.
U.F.O.: Unidentified Flying Object
Aliens: Probing your anus and you not waking to remember.
BIG DIFFERENCE!
I get the feeling they're all some type of military craft/weapon of who knows which governing body of this planet.
Aliens? Who knows, 2012 is here and the Mayans and many other Ancient cultures do say the gods are to return. aka: Anunnaki.
I saw some of those in the sky a while ago and flipped my shit until I figured it out.
They sometimes flicker more when they're going out but idk. xD
If not lanterns then aliens or bored people.
Candle-heated hot-air balloons (balloons of colored paper, light-weight colored plastic, or clear plastic. If they are released close to the same place & time, they are going to follow air-currents, and maybe appear to be in formation. I've read that the lights do tend to 'flicker'.
Also, the technology for lightweight radio-controlled 'toy' aircraft is getting more sophisticated. There are Yu-tube videos of battery powered aircraft more than a meter wide, with LED lights attached to the bottom of their white styrofoam wings. These are shown being launched at night, and being flown around neighborhoods to amuse (or spook) neighbors.
Florida is also a possible place where small radio-controlled blimps (or linked helicopter 'toys') might be being tested by experimenters or small business.
lightweight radio-controlled 'toy' aircraft is getting more sophisticated I live in a town full of old people and trees. The lights came from a heavily wooded area and flew over a remote trail. I heard no people in the area.
small radio-controlled blimps That sounds possible though I don't know why they would all randomly go dim and again, this is a pretty remote area.
Here's a video of one at night, you can see that the light doesn't actually flicker very much as most of it is shining as reflecting from the bag, not from the light of the candle itself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg2U.....JLEg&t=15s
They last for minutes or seconds, go out as soon as they begin to fall and pretty much disappear. Unless the weather was in direct contradiction to what you saw this is probably what it was.
It made me kind of sad to learn, because I am genuinely interested in Ufology(yes it's a real word, I can't believe it) but at a glance I can debunk most of the footage as balloons. As for government coverups, in all those situations it is just experimental aircraft, because our government isn't competent enough to mask one big giant clandestine experiment. After all, these experimental air craft sightings prove how poorly they keep things hidden. It's just useful that crazy people learned to associate UFOs with aliens, and so anyone who sees a UFO is branded as crazy.
Go figure.
Personally, I wouldn't want to know what it was. Takes the mystery out of life :(
Seeing as it's near Christmas and new year, it's possible some chinese or asian decide to light up a lantern or two :3
Here's lantern piccy:
http://lucianarchy.proboards.com/in.....mp;thread=8542
http://www.weddingo.co.uk/wp-conten.....wd-display.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_otrrNl-_4.....kyLantern9.jpg
As you can see...it was already mistaken for UFO in Britain once already :3
This may not necessarily be it, but it sounds like it could fit.
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i dont really mind or anything, i just didnt know
I'm unaware of their night-time capabilities but there are new drones out right now that may have flown over your area.
You got the wonderful RQ-170 'Sentinel'. New line of drone's to come that possess stealth capabilities.
I'm sure they are just as quiet as any stealth plane. (E.g, F-117 Nighthawk)
And then you have the next-gen 'Avenger's and the new X-47B.
All 3 of which are in their test flight phases in the U.S, maybe/or are stealth and powered by turbines which could give a brief view of their burners from the right angle.
They also are all manufactured out west.
I wouldn't be surprised if they made flights to Texas then carried out over the coast to follow north towards their final resting places along the east coast; where most drone bases are stationed.
Actually, when I was 17 I did see a purple light in the night sky. It traveled in a straight line, and I thought it was just a plane with a really bright purple light. It suddenly made an EXACT 90 degree turn to the right, and then gained speed so quickly that my jaw dropped. It then simply disappeared.
I really wish I knew if my friend is honestly correct (since his entire extended family saw it too and told me with frightened faces), or if he has a mental disorder now, and perhaps all of his family hallucinated? Or maybe there WAS something there, but it drove him over the edge and his own brain caused him to get these "messages" from the entities.
It gives me such an eerie feeling to type this...
Perhaps?
By the by, I've seen the same thing/s. I assumed they were the above, though there is always niggling doubts.
Actually, hot-air balloons perhaps? Just guessing.
I didn't say swamp gass but can I still get a flogging? Pretty please?
Also note in the empty night sky you have no real point of reference and things far away might seem close than they really are, or vice-versa.
I once saw a shadow of a bat with bright red eyes o.o no idea how this is relevant but it just reminded me of things i can't explain o.o
Maybe someone where you live does the same? :)
http://youtu.be/ZAZhtT-dUyo
...shot by aliends.
also, it's a bit more than 6 hours back,. so it would fit.
it should be meteorite, because nothign else fits the patterns, and there is no sattelite know to be about to drop from the sky. and space rubble is way to small to be seen.
Don't leave me all alone on this planet full of insane self-destructive people! lol
But then, there are mysteries upon mysteries.
Years ago while I was out walking my dogs I saw a slow blinking light in the night sky. It was not an aircraft light; it was quite large and it oscillated very slowly. Also: it did not move at all from its position between two stars in the orion cluster. No matter how I moved it remained in place, so it was not a reflection from a power line or somesuch, and it was up there, yet still rather large compared to aircraft lights at such altitude. It had a 12 second cycle, slowly fading in and out.
Never saw it after that night, either.
DON'T LET THEM TAKE YOU! D:
Here the rocket came down around 17:30 o'clock on Saturday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?featur.....;v=QRY8hW2ya7E
Hope this calms your fragile nerves!
But um.. lemme let you in on a little secret. My family owns a ranch that I lived on for 80% of my life. My mom has so many of these lights that you're talking about on vhs and there's no military base around for MILES. There's an air port-- but nothing there would fly in any way that those do.
The strangest thing that I've seen-- and my mom has *this* on VHS-- is the lights actually *play* with each other. They go back and forth-- almost like they're playing tag.
Recently, my mom called me up and told me that one of those lights were hovering over a big oak tree a few yards away from her home. She said the way it hovered seemed mechanical-- like it was scoping out the territory.
And shortly after we started seeing those lights- strange unexplainable things started happening-- the most terrifying PERSONAL experience that I had was one night around 3am, I was sitting in the living room watching tv and-- have you ever sprayed a water hose up against a window? Okay- think-- that sound. I heard that sound start far away-- like it was on the other end of the house-- then it seemed to crawl against the wall, all around to where I was and suddenly it was roaring at the window next to me. It was just ABSOLUTELY terrifying. There was NOTHING that could have made that sound, nor would anything be around. We live far away from the highway on a very very large ranch- with houses spaced a good ways away. Everyone in the house was asleep except me. My mom has even said that she's heard something similar to things like this.
Idk what it is, I mean, it could be military or ufo or whatever, but it's effing creepy and no one's willing to talk about it.
Done? xD
It just so happens that the C-130 flies SO SLOW that it can appear to not be moving at all when viewed from the correct angle. It also has an enormous tail, so it is somewhat possible that you saw the belly lights, or perhaps even the dorsal lights, of the aircraft (it has a lot of lights but they're never all on at once for some reason), and either something got in the way of seeing it (wing, tail, etc) or it turned the last light off.
Who knows? *shrugs* Awesome regardless though!
My guess is you were seeing the ISS, which recently had a ship trailing it to dock. Not sure what the third object was unless it was the upper stage from the soyuz launch that had not come down yet. Another possibility is a set of closely spaced satellites. There are some research satellites that travel in groups such as the gravity measuring satellites.
Blimps can be extremely quiet, and if they turn away from you at night, it can cause running lights to seem to vanish in succession.
That said, I believe in the Earthlights theory, that naturally occuring plasma can take forms we're not familiar with (yet), and that trolls and sprites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper-atmospheric_lightning are just the tip of the iceberg. It's the only satisfying explanation to the way many "UFOs" seem to be amorphous fluids that can appear, disappear, split or merge, and that some sites have had these strange lights in the sky for millenia and even have ancient temples because they were believed to be sacred places.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN9wJ24jBxc
There is a video of ISS and one of the space shuttles. The space shuttle loses its upper stage earlier in flight and so you would only see 2 objects with the space shuttle following it. Not sure with the soyuz launches but I believe the final rocket stage stays up a little longer before coming back to burn up spectacularly a few days later. Note in the above video, you don't see the vanishing act because of the suns angle (nearly morning). You can google and find other videos showing the vanishing act when they are seen in the evening or night.
If she has the exact time and date she saw the object, you can look up when the ISS was overhead and in what part of the sky and either confirm or rule out that this was just the ISS. If the ISS wasn't supposed to be there, then it was something else.