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Orange light above sky in Swords

Elessar · 2010-01-03 00:34:26

Ok, I'm weirded out. Did anyone else see a bright orange light cross the sky around Swords/the airport just now? It was very bright orange, slow moving, no sound and was very low (below the clouds), seemed to hover and then disappear into the distance. It was no helicopter or plane, I took out the binoculars and had a look…

03-01-2010 12:34am

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Ok, I'm weirded out. Did anyone else see a bright orange light cross the sky around Swords/the airport just now? It was very bright orange, slow moving, no sound and was very low (below the clouds), seemed to hover and then disappear into the distance. It was no helicopter or plane, I took out the binoculars and had a look and it was tiny - just a round orange light. Passed right over my estate and not a sound to it.

Really freaky. I'm not crazy

Did anyone else see it?

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#2 03-01-2010 12:36am

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Round orange object in the sky you say...

The sun???

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#3 03-01-2010 12:37am

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The Moon?

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#4 03-01-2010 12:37am

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They call 'em Lanterns.

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#5 03-01-2010 12:38am

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Seen them on xmas day..but there were loads. Think theyre chinese lantern things.

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#6 03-01-2010 12:38am

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Fireworks,off yonder.

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#7 03-01-2010 12:39am

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Oh jesus it better be. It was quite bright orange, moving across the sky, maybe 500ft in the sky.

It seemed to slow down, then change direction slightly, then move off into the distance.

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#8 03-01-2010 12:39am

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Check here....

aliens thread

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#9 03-01-2010 12:42am

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It was a weather balloon

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#10 03-01-2010 12:44am

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ScienceNerd wrote: »

It was a weather balloon

Don't believe him!
He's one of them!

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#11 03-01-2010 12:50am

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Probably something to do with the light beams from the new nightclub (Wrights) at Airside

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#12 03-01-2010 12:51am

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Beasty wrote: »

Probably something to do with the light beams from the new nightclub (Wrights) at Airside

It certainly wasn't a laser. It was a solid object. Though I'm thinking chinese lantern fits what I saw quite well. But what if it wasn't oh god. Who on earth is letting of chinese lanterns at this hour??

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#13 03-01-2010 12:52am

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This was covered in a thread here before they are basically orange sky lanterns, you will see a lot of them around this time of year

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055754460&highlight=gstore.ie

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#14 03-01-2010 12:52am

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It was an aurora borealis

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#15 03-01-2010 12:53am

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A reflection of the planet Venus that bounced off the windscreen of a Boeing 747 seen through the Aurora Borealis during a ball lightening storm.

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#16 03-01-2010 12:56am

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It was an aurora borealis

Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within Swords??

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#17 03-01-2010 12:56am

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It is surely Xenu, coming to take us back to the Death Star or somesuch

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#18 03-01-2010 12:56am

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Elessar wrote: »

Ok, I'm weirded out. Did anyone else see a bright orange light cross the sky around Swords/the airport just now? It was very bright orange, slow moving, no sound and was very low (below the clouds), seemed to hover and then disappear into the distance. It was no helicopter or plane, I took out the binoculars and had a look and it was tiny - just a round orange light. Passed right over my estate and not a sound to it.

Really freaky. I'm not crazy

Did anyone else see it?

Maybe it’s your relatives coming over to visit you for the new year of maybe you spent too much time in the cock tavern on Main Street tonight. Either way its way beyond my area of expertise

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#19 03-01-2010 1:00am

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no... ye cant really see much of the sky over swords from cavan....

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Total darkness here!

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#21 03-01-2010 1:06am

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Swords has an airport?

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#22 03-01-2010 1:12am

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I saw the EXACT same thing in Nenagh - aint the first time its been seen though!

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#23 03-01-2010 1:15am

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In the Bible it states ..

"When ye have come to the dates of double nothing, they well mean two for one when joined and this is the end of days.."

Now, two for every one when written .. could look like this right?

2-1

Right??

So what then? Well, it say's when "come together, meaning it's duplicated in some way, ie: doubled.

So ..

2-1 2-1

Two 21's means nothing. So what have we left??

"Double nothing" right? So let's had two zeros:

2-1 2010

Today's date!!!!!!

Run, get the f**k out of Swords now.

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#24 03-01-2010 1:15am

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It's the Delorean, the Docs back!

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#25 03-01-2010 1:17am

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anniehoo wrote: »

Seen them on xmas day..but there were loads. Think theyre chinese lantern things.

What anniehoo said.

Plus this is the Classic Rock forum, nothing to do with North Dublin.

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