Strange goings on as UFO's are spotted in Carlow skies

LeinsterPar

*taken from the carlow people*

Strange goings on in the skies over Carlow have been sighted.

Bright lights appearing, changing colour and disappearing, only to reappear have been spotted in the firmament over Sleaty.

Chris Ward, who's just finished his Leaving Cert and who's a DJ with KCLR 96FM, has spotted the strange lights twice. The last time he saw them was early on Friday morning at around 3 a.m.

'They're really strange looking,' Chris explained. 'When I saw them two weeks ago, I couldn't get my head around what they were. Then, I thought that they could be distress signals from flares, so I rang the Gardai.' Chris reckons that the lights were about 600 feet off the ground and appeared intermittently.

Another witness, who wants only to be known as Marie, was taken aback when she saw the strange lights early on Thursday morning. She told the Carlow People that there were eight lights, 'bigger than stars,' formed in a loose circle. They would start out being a bright white, change colour to orange, disappear and then re-appear shortly afterwards.

'I'm not a great sleeper, ' Marie said, 'and I was on my way to bed, just after 2 a.m. on Friday morning when I saw these lights. They were really weird, I got such a fright.'

Marie then alerted her son and her husband to the phenomenon and the family watched the sky for around 30 minutes before the lights disappeared for the last time. Straight afterwards, the sky brightened, according to Marie, as if it were daylight.

She says that though she's sure the lights weren't from a plane or from a falling star, she couldn't rule out the idea that they could from a UFO.

'I've never seen a UFO,' Marie concluded. 'Unless one parked in the field at the back of the house and little fellas got out of it, I wouldn't know what one looked like.'

Ziycon

Theres a thread already open for UFO sightings and the like, just so you know.

Can you give more of a specific location, date of when these incidents took place?

Edit: I got the date which the article was published which was the 30 June, just need to know what days the incidents took place and locations please.

LeinsterPar

no idea - heard about this a few weeks ago and all I know is that it was on the carlo/laois border. sleatty is in graiguecullen, on the laois end. theres also been talk of things spotted in Old Loughlin which is on the other laois/carlow boundry but i think this was a case of getting the two mixed up.

they say 'Friday' on the article - the carlow people comes out on a tuesday I think which would have been the 27th but again this article came from the web. 30th june was a friday so I daresay it was either the 23rd or the 30th June.

Im interested to see if anyone in the area visiting these forums seen anything. I suppose this could be moved into the thread you mentioned, though it would make it less likely that people would pick up on it. over-tidyness isnt always a good thing on a forum

Ziycon

I was thinking of heading out to carlow tonight if i could get a more definiated location!

LeinsterPar

i'll see if I can contact yer man in KCLR .....

LeinsterPar

damn, he's out of the country apparently. ive been skywatching this past few nights and havent seen anything

Ziycon

Your from the carlow area yourself?

LeinsterPar

aye.

I put it down to weather conditions meself

Zillah

LeinsterPar wrote:

aye.

I put it down to weather conditions meself

Weather conditions...? Pray tell, what weather phenomena can cause bright spheres of light to fly around the sky and change colour?

LeinsterPar

considering the recent heatwave plus the difference in weather from mid June until early July I'd want to be certain it wasnt some form of lightening before I'd consider anything else

Zillah

Actually its far more likely to be electroforms than anything else. They've been recreated in the lab by putting rock under extreme pressure. I'll see if I can dig up a reference.

Either way, ball lighting is extremely rare and having a whole flotilla of them is unheard of.

LeinsterPar

i'd assume not as rare as a UFO though

darkstar06

Well, im not big on the whole LGM thing myself, so I'm going to go for Earthlights - ionized air, due to energy released from the ground, as extreme pressure causes the plates to shift slightly. - ok I know there were probably no earthquakes , but its a logical point of view for me. - more logical than little grey guys who have nothing better to do than swan around in their ship at 3am, hoping someone sees them on the way back form the pub.