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Orange Light in Sky

Wizard007 · 2010-02-13 10:39:34

I know this sounds daft, and no I was not drinking. I live half way between Gorey and Arklow. At about 1am a big bright orange light rose from the west and went across the sky and went off to the south. It was travelling slow enough and was really really bright, like a really big star but orange. It was just below the…

13-02-2010 10:39am

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Wizard007

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I know this sounds daft, and no I was not drinking.

I live half way between Gorey and Arklow. At about 1am a big bright orange light rose from the west and went across the sky and went off to the south. It was travelling slow enough and was really really bright, like a really big star but orange. It was just below the cloud line. I rang Astronomy Ireland this morning and the guy said it was a chineese latern, one of these things people leave off at parties, ah no it wasn't. It was too slow to be a meteor. It wasn't an aircraft.

Did anyone else see this?

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#2 13-02-2010 10:41am

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Look here.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055826690

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#3 13-02-2010 10:53am

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Wizard007 wrote: »

I know this sounds daft, and no I was not drinking.

I live half way between Gorey and Arklow. At about 1am a big bright orange light rose from the west and went across the sky and went off to the south. It was travelling slow enough and was really really bright, like a really big star but orange. It was just below the cloud line. I rang Astronomy Ireland this morning and the guy said it was a chineese latern, one of these things people leave off at parties, ah no it wasn't. It was too slow to be a meteor. It wasn't an aircraft.

Did anyone else see this?

Loads of lanterns last Saturday night floating up from the beach near Kilcoole.

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#4 13-02-2010 10:56am

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Thanks Brian, but nope, certainly nothing at all like that. It was like a big bright orange star.

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#5 13-02-2010 10:58am

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It was last night / this morning Ciaran at 1am-ish

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