Errin C cool down FFS!!!
ITS ONLY THE INTERNET !!!

As for this weird shit - having expereinced this first hand along with several hundred others saying: WHAT THE FUCK ARE THOSE ??? I'm pretty sure they wern't lanterns. It was pretty damn windy that night and these things were moving AGAINST the fucking wind. Weird.

Maybe I should go and dig out my tinfoil helmet??? Hmmm
( SpankyHanky, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 16:49, 3 replies)

Different windspeed at different heights
will mean they do look that way yes!
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 16:54, closed)

I'd love to have seen them with my own eyes
but I'm pretty sure there's a logical explanation. The worlds a weird place. Wind can be going in a different direction up there too. I've seen what can happen when one person goes what the fuck is that and then suddenly shit loads of people are doing the same and freaking. One evening myself and at least 20 others saw a dead body in an underpass and we were all freaking out and talking about calling the police but no-one wanted to go down and check. After about ten minutes of freaking myself and a friend went down there we didn't have to walk far down the slope for the angle of vision to change and for us to quite clearly see a dumped mattress. but when we told everyone that it was a mattress they still wanted to check for themselves or call the police.
( Peej, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 16:55, closed)

Believe me
I'm the biggest skeptic I know... well, I was prior to this. Having seen it with my own eyes while stone cold sober I can honestly say it was fucking odd... You could sort of tell from standing on Archway Road they wern't small objects far away, they were big objects in the middle distance. And you could also tell they wern't caught in the wind and appeared to move under some internal power sauce(r)... Shame that vids the only one I could find on account of it being a bit shit.

Freaked me out big time, this did. Big time.
( SpankyHanky, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 16:58, closed)

No, you can't tell that.
Unless it overlaps with an object of known size, it is impossible to tell the size of something that is more than 18 metres away.

Look up at a plane in the sky - if you didn't know how big it is, you would never be able to guess.

We judge the size of things by the slightly different views we get from each eye. More than 18 metres away and our eyes are too close together to successfully do so.

It could be a spaceship at 100,000m or it could be a fire balloon at 19m. I know where my money is.
( MatJ LOOK, Sun 7 Feb 2010, 15:37, closed)