I just saw a UFO
(by virtue of it being flying and unidentified)

It looked like a fire - and orange-yellow flickering light. A bit like a hot air balloon, except without the balloon and moving too fast. It just went across the sky about as fast as a plane, but didn't make any noise. Size wise, it was maybe about the size of a light aeroplane at a couple of thousand feet (I live near an airfield) when I first saw it.

It went up into a cloud and vanished.

I don't believe it's aliens, or anything like that, but I can't figure out what the hell it was.
( le brian, Mon 17 Aug 2009, 21:36, 11 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

It'll be one of those Chinese Lanterns
www.chineselanterns.co.uk/

So I reckon anyways.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Mon 17 Aug 2009, 21:44, Reply)

Probably a sky lantern
One of these:



And this is how to make them:

blog.skylighter.com/fireworks/2008/11/how-to-make-chinese-sky-lanterns.html
( jim_bob can herd cats., Mon 17 Aug 2009, 21:45, Reply)

Hmmm... I suppose it could have been
Not what you expect to see drifting across Welwyn Garden City of an evening, but a distinct possibility.

I might try and make one sometime.

Thanks
( le brian, Mon 17 Aug 2009, 22:00, Reply)

I live in Welwyn!
HI!
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 23:24, Reply)

Maybe it was ball lightning
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 17 Aug 2009, 22:01, Reply)

It was cops flashing their headlights and making noise over their megaphones.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 17 Aug 2009, 22:28, Reply)

mm
It was more than likely another life form, from a massively advanced civilisation, in a ship that could probably wipe the floor with everything all our nations on earth could muster armament wise, just, you know, tooling around, doing a few ftl versions of a handbrake turn around jupiter or something, scorching and skipping upper atmospheres to freak the backwards earthlings, that sort of thing

Happens all the time
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 17 Aug 2009, 22:45, Reply)

In fact
all of those abductions, all of the cattle probings, mysterious symbols throughout history, the pyramids, its the alien equivalent to a spotty 18 year old oik in a citreon Saxo with a couple of munters on the back seats and some terrible woo haa! music blaring out cruising Bury St Edmunds high street like the wikkid fuckin gangster he is
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 17 Aug 2009, 22:50, Reply)

Nice board sig halfy :)
There was a ufo filmed on our local news this morning. Streaked along the tyne looking like one of those meteors last week.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 17 Aug 2009, 23:38, Reply)

Hmm... I saw a UFO once, about 13 years ago.
To this day my sceptical level-headed mind has tried and failed to explain what I saw.
It was just past midnight, and a bright, pure white light was slowly glowing and fading in brightness. Every time it reached it's peak 4 or 5 other lights would emerge from it and move about 3 inches (to me)to the right (from my vantage point I had no point of reference to judge distance. It could've been 30 feet or 3 miles).
These would all fade out in the sequence they emerged, in the same spot. This went on for abour 45 minutes.
When I woke the next day I went back for a second look, and couldn't see any roads or paths nearby; it was a heavily wooded valley.
Any suggestions would be welcome...
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 2:13, Reply)

Afterburner from a jet.

(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 10:37, Reply)