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Did anyone see anything in Dublin sky last night ?

  • 02-12-2010 8:18am
    #1
    Graham1978
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭


    Just wondering if anyone seen something moving very fast around 23:15, i couldnt see a shape just a single light moving in a kind of zig zag movement. Dont think it was a star or anything because it was quite cloudy, and as i said moving seriously fast . Weird :eek:


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  • #2
    Ziycon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,987 ✭✭✭Ziycon


    Fork lightning!? There was tons of it the past few days/nights.

    fork-lightning.jpg


  • #3
    Graham1978
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭Graham1978


    No it was definately the light of some aircraft !


  • #4
    face1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭face1990


    Most likely a chinese lantern. I've seen so many of them in Dublin over the last few months.


  • #5
    demakinz
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    Its always a chinese lantern.


  • #6
    kylith
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    Graham1978 wrote: »
    No it was definately the light of some aircraft !
    I think you may have answered your own question there. It was probably the light of some aircraft.


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  • #7
    loldog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭loldog


    demakinz wrote: »
    Its always a chinese lantern.

    Yeah, they move so fast.:rolleyes:

    .


  • #8
    face1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭face1990


    loldog wrote: »
    Yeah, they move so fast.:rolleyes:

    .

    They do move pretty fast if there's a good wind blowing! But when they're low in the air, they can appear to be moving a lot faster since it can be so hard to tell how high they are.

    Don't be so quick to dismiss the chinese lanterns!


  • #9
    Riamfada
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    Honestly the huge increase in "did you see this in the sky last night" threads coincides extremely well with the increase in popularity of chinese lanterns.

    Unless they are moving at 90 degree angles and there is some sort of footage its always going to be a chinese lantern.


  • #10
    loldog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭loldog


    face1990 wrote: »

    Don't be so quick to dismiss the chinese lanterns!

    Oh I have seen plenty of them and have done a double-take now and again, but OP says the light was moving very fast and zig-zagging.

    .


  • #11
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    loldog wrote: »
    Oh I have seen plenty of them and have done a double-take now and again, but OP says the light was moving very fast and zig-zagging.

    .
    Sounds like something responding to the wind... now what could that be...


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  • #12
    C4Kid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 480 ✭✭C4Kid


    Maybe it was the space station passing over. It can be seen as a single light moving very fast but not zig zagging. I saw it moving across the sky for a good 30 secs - 1 min before dissappearing.

    Try this tracker
    http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html

    I was looking out last night but it was too cloudy.:(


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