UFO sighting in Dublin/Drumcondra

street

Hi guys I witnessed an orange glowing object flying over the Drumcondra area at approx 00:15 today. Just wondering if anyone in the same area or living nearby areas saw the same thing or something similiar? I also posted on the UFO Research Association site with a detailed description of what I saw here's the link

http://www.ufoi.org/forum/index.php?topic=773.0

Just trying to get to the bottom of it really so if anyone can shed some light please contact me, thanks!

MagicMarker

Chinese lantern.

Or a meteor shower?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056720931

dan1895

Probably just a few footballs coming back down to earth after the Shels game on friday.

street

MagicMarker wrote: »

Chinese lantern.

It was moving intelligently in a particular direction

I am pie

street wrote: »

It was moving intelligently in a particular direction

What do you mean ? What was intelligent about it's movements?

street

Dónal wrote: »

Or a meteor shower?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056720931

It was travelling at about the same height as a helicopter in a particular direction

MagicMarker

street wrote: »

It was moving intelligently in a particular direction

In the link you provided you said it was moving in a straight line at a steady pace.

street

I am pie wrote: »

What do you mean ? What was intelligent about it's movements?

I mean it moved like a craft that was being piloted imho. It dipped in height a bit at one point and continued moving at a steady pace, about twice the speed of a helicopter.

street

Dónal wrote: »

Or a meteor shower?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056720931

No way..

Sunnyisland

Bertie dropping home in his helicopter ?

Lawrence1895

realies wrote: »

Bertie dropping home in his helicopter ?

Now I understand, why that helicopter was out there all night. Maybe they were refused to land :P

street

realies wrote: »

Bertie dropping home in his helicopter ?

It would be great not to hear from the likes of you and dan1895 who have nothing better to do than take the piss. It's a trivial thing to you but I genuinely saw something really strange last night that I can't explain and have (reluctantly) posted hear to see if anyone in the Dublin 9 area/nearby or Dublin city for that matter saw what I saw. It freaked me out and my head is wrecked.. Hoping to get some answers. Anyone whos actually interested in what I'm saying please check out the link i gave for a full description of what happened.

2cool4school

hot air baloon on a night flight?

admiralofthefleet

time to give these fella'a a buzz

street

2cool4school wrote: »

hot air baloon on a night flight?

If hot air balloons can travel twice the speed of a helicopter then its possible I guess.

About a minute after i'd seen the thing there was a helicopter hovering over my area (Drumcondra) for about 20/30 mins afterwards!! Also saw one in the distance (Glasnevin I'd say) in the direction the object had gone before it went out of my view. Might ring a bell with someone?

Lawrence1895

street wrote: »

If hot air balloons can travel twice the speed of a helicopter then its possible I guess.

About a minute after i'd seen the thing there was a helicopter hovering over my area (Drumcondra) for about 20/30 mins afterwards!! Also saw one in the distance (Glasnevin I'd say) in the direction the object had gone before it went out of my view. Might ring a bell with someone?

Let's say, it was Beaumont/Whitehall. had a helicopter here at around 12:30ish for at least 15 minutes. But I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary

tricky D

Classic description of a Chinese lantern. There's loads of these exact same descriptions in the Astronomy forum, especially the orange colour, and they are always lanterns. A meteor would only have been seen for a few tenths of a second. As for speed, pace and direction, they are very deceptive and hard to judge for the first-time observer who will very often refuse to believe they are lanterns.

Here's the search result for the Astronomy forum for lanterns. Take a look at some of the threads and the pattern will become obvious. http://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?subforums=1&forum=267&query=lantern


Do keep looking up though as the Perseids are around for another day or two, but if you are in town, the light pollution will cut your chances of seeing a meteor right down.

street

Lars1916 wrote: »

Let's say, it was Beaumont/Whitehall. had a helicopter here at around 12:30ish for at least 15 minutes. But I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary

Interesting

tricky D

Helicopters don't do orange and have very very noticeable flashing nav lights: red/green. They have to be distinctive for air traffic/flight rules purposes.

Lawrence1895

street wrote: »

Interesting

For me, it was more annoying, but never mind

The cats and the rabbits went bonkers as well, just to mention that

street

tricky D wrote: »

Classic description of a Chinese lantern. There's loads of these exact same descriptions in the Astronomy forum, especially the orange colour, and they are always lanterns. A meteor would only have been seen for a few tenths of a second. As for speed, pace and direction, they are very deceptive and hard to judge for the first-time observer who will very often refuse to believe they are lanterns.

Here's the search result for the Astronomy forum for lanterns. Take a look at some of the threads and the pattern will become obvious. http://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?subforums=1&forum=267&query=lantern


Do keep looking up though as the Perseids are around for another day or two, but if you are in town, the light pollution will cut your chances of seeing a meteor right down.

I'll take your word for it as regards the lanterns but yeah I don't believe it was one of them. While I was out it was raining and there was little to no wind. And what about the helicopters which were obviously there looking out for something? Doubt they'd waste their time chasing a chinese lantern about the place!?

John Mason

And what about the helicopters which were obviously there looking out for something? Doubt they'd waste their time chasing a chinese lantern about the place!?

so you think the helicopters were out chasing the naughty aliens away :rolleyes:

they were more likely out chasing Anto and Decco in their stolen car

street

irishbird wrote: »

so you think the helicopters were out chasing the naughty aliens away :rolleyes:

they were more likely out chasing Anto and Decco in their stolen car

Don't patronise me irishbird. It was too much of a coincidence imo. I'm just trying to get some answers here ok?

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street wrote: »

Don't patronise me irishbird. It was too much of a coincidence imo. I'm just trying to get some answers here ok?

Do you actually think it was aliens?

Will I move this to the Alien forum? Paranormla? Astronomy?

Ypu have your answer, it was a Chinese Lantern, it wasn't being chased by the Garda Helicopter.

"Trying to get some answers"? You sound like you belong in the Conspiracy Theories Forum tbh.

It was a Chinese Lantern, nothing else.

Jesus.

Being a member of the skeptic community i would say it was one of the following

sleep paralysis
Misidentified brown bear
Or cold reading

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Deleted User wrote: »

Being a member of the skeptic community i would say it was one of the following

sleep paralysis
Misidentified brown bear
Or cold reading

What?

Des

Des wrote: »

It was a Chinese Lantern, nothing else.

Jesus.

You actually believe in Jesus ??

street

Des wrote: »

Do you actually think it was aliens?

Will I move this to the Alien forum? Paranormla? Astronomy?

Ypu have your answer, it was a Chinese Lantern, it wasn't being chased by the Garda Helicopter.

"Trying to get some answers"? You sound like you belong in the Conspiracy Theories Forum tbh.

It was a Chinese Lantern, nothing else.

Jesus.

I wasn't speaking to you there Des but to answer your question, I can't say for sure but I think its possible and I'm open-minded on that subject. Obviously you're not. I've posted in Paranormal and Astronomy btw so don't put yourself out. Might get some concrete answers there put the thing to bed, and I'm pretty sure they'll be less aggressive.. And yeah, I'm trying to get some answers about what I saw, whats so bloody hard to grasp about that?? I'm a normal bloke who saw something weird and I want to know what it was. Enda story

tricky D

The concrete answer is Chinese Lantern. When you see a few of them together in sky, you'll have a eureka moment. Alternatively you could get a hold of a few yourself, they're not expensive and a bit of craic, then you'll see the light (pun intended).

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street wrote: »

I wasn't speaking to you there Des but to answer your question, I can't say for sure but I think its possible and I'm open-minded on that subject. Obviously you're not. I've posted in Paranormal and Astronomy btw so don't put yourself out. Might get some concrete answers there put the thing to bed, and I'm pretty sure they'll be less aggressive.. And yeah, I'm trying to get some answers about what I saw, whats so bloody hard to grasp about that?? I'm a normal bloke who saw something weird and I want to know what it was. Enda story

Yet you dismiss any rational explanation in the hope that someone tells you saw a little green man in his spacecraft coming for a flying visit?

Question for you.

Given that it takes some pretty hi-tech technology to even get a rover to Mars, why do you think Alan the Alien would just pop over to Drumcondra for a fly by? Why wouldn't they land and let us know exactly what they are doing?

haulagebasher

@ Street: From the description you gave in your OP and before reading the other posts my immediate thoought was Chinese Lantern. You mentioned it went at twice the speed of a helicopter - what is the speed of a helicopter then? was it twice the speed of a helicopter going 10mph or twice the speed of a helicopter going 100mph? such vague observations are completely meaningless you know. (A)You mention there was little or no wind - that may be the case at ground level but at an altitude wind velocity will be greater. (B)Then you said it moved "intelligently" - could it not have been turbulence in the wind just causing it to momentarily change its heading and altitude? I certainly think so. TBH i think you are completely off the mark on this, its a simple old Chinese lantern, plain and simple. (D) I suggest this little excercise - try to recreate the event. You and an assistant should buy a Chinese lantern and go out on a night with similar wather conditions. You travel a few hundred meters downwind of the release point and then tell your friend to light and launch the lantern. you observe it's appearance, speed and path from the ground. I am quite confident that you will find that it will be pretty similar to what you saw the other night.
What say you street? Will you try it out for us and prove us wrong?
BTW from reading the stuff in the link: Like, did you seriously ring you Baldonnel and the Air Corp over this? What did they tell you? Was it the Air Corp new secret Chinese lantern powered hypersonic spy plane? But of course they wouldn't tell you that cos its a secret.

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Why do something completely rational like that, when he could just continue to believe it was the lizard people finally coming to take us away?

dr strangelove

Best get plastered, just in case

Des

Des wrote: »

Yet you dismiss any rational explanation in the hope that someone tells you saw a little green man in his spacecraft coming for a flying visit?

I dont think he dismissed it Des, i think it was more the fact you went all Mafia on him and told him what he saw.

zenno

Des wrote: »

Yet you dismiss any rational explanation in the hope that someone tells you saw a little green man in his spacecraft coming for a flying visit?

Question for you.

Given that it takes some pretty hi-tech technology to even get a rover to Mars, why do you think Alan the Alien would just pop over to Drumcondra for a fly by? Why wouldn't they land and let us know exactly what they are doing?

In fairness to the O.P lets just say that if s/he did see a UFO then why are people including yourself talking about aliens ? UFO means 'unidentified flying object', it has nothing to do with aliens, I don't understand why people mention aliens when someone says they seen a ufo as a ufo has nothing to do with aliens unless you actually seen an alien.

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Deleted User wrote: »

I dont think he dismissed it Des, i think it was more the fact you went all Mafia on him and told him what he saw.

Mafia?

Cool, another "believer".

It's crap, it was a chinese lantern, it's always a chinese lantern.

Even if it wasn't a chinese lantern, it most certainly wasn't a spaceship.

zenno

Des wrote: »

Mafia?

Cool, another "believer".

It's crap, it was a chinese lantern, it's always a chinese lantern.

Even if it wasn't a chinese lantern, it most certainly wasn't a spaceship.

The O.P never said s/he seen a spaceship, you don't have a clue what you are talking about.

nehemiah

Deleted User wrote: »

I dont think he dismissed it Des, i think it was more the fact you went all Mafia on him and told him what he saw.

I think it's more his refusal to listen to the logical explanations mentioned so far. For example, numerous people have mentioned Chinese Lanterns and he has thus far not acknowledged the possibility of it actually being Chinese Lanterns. He has stated that it was travelling at twice the speed of a helicopter, which really doesn't tell anyone anything and he has said that it was travelling 'intelligently', which again doesn't tell us anything. If he heard an engine then we can presume it's travelling 'intelligently'. If not, it means nothing.

The OP seemingly does't want to accept any rational explanation and is therefore leaving himself open to ridicule.

haulagebasher

Can someone comment on my proposal that he try launching a lantern with a friend to compare its flight to what he saw?@Street: OK then, since you are adamant that it is NOT a chinese lantern perhaps you can tell us WHY you think that? What is it about the UFO that is making you think it is not a chinese lantern? Answer us this bearing in mind the points made in my previous post .

hollster2

Dónal wrote: »

Or a meteor shower?

there has been Perseid meteor shower 11 12 13 aug thats prob what you saw look up earthsky.org

teddybear178

There is a very good chance that you saw the International Space Station as it is visible in the northern hemisphere right now. It will be visible again tonight in Dublin from 22:32 until 22:37 travelling from west to east starting in the WSW sky and moving to the ESE. It can appear to white to yellow to orange to reddish depending on how many layers of the atmosphere the reflected sunlight is travelling through.

http://iss.astroviewer.net/observation.php

Use this link to view its current location and next projected passes.

Keep looking up.

Galadriel

zenno wrote: »

In fairness to the O.P lets just say that if s/he did see a UFO then why are people including yourself talking about aliens ? UFO means 'unidentified flying object', it has nothing to do with aliens, I don't understand why people mention aliens when someone says they seen a ufo as a ufo has nothing to do with aliens unless you actually seen an alien.

Did you read the link the OP posted? he said that it wasn't a human craft, so if not human then what did he mean?

Des

Des wrote: »

Cool, another "believer".

No, im not a believer , i dont know what it was, i was not there. Were you ? ?

Des wrote: »

Even if it wasn't a chinese lantern, it most certainly wasn't a spaceship.

Do you realise you are the only one talking about Aliens or spaceships


It could have been a remote control Helicopter or plane, it could have been a balloon. It could have been a kite. Hell it could have been an owl with a torch

zenno

There's a very high possibility that it was a Chinese lantern but all this talk of aliens is just wrong as the O.P never said s/he seen an alien or a spaceship for that matter.

Galadriel

zenno wrote: »

The O.P never said s/he seen a spaceship, you don't have a clue what you are talking about.

Erm, yes he did, he said 'not a human craft' in the link on his first post.

MagicMarker

zenno wrote: »

The O.P never said s/he seen a spaceship, you don't have a clue what you are talking about.

In the link the OP posted he said it's "wasn't a human craft". Also, when someone generally uses the acronym UFO it's usually only referring to one thing.

haulagebasher

teddybear178 wrote: »

There is a very good chance that you saw the International Space Station as it is visible in the northern hemisphere right now. It will be visible again tonight in Dublin from 22:32 until 22:37 travelling from west to east starting in the WSW sky and moving to the ESE. It can appear to white to yellow to orange to reddish depending on how many layers of the atmosphere the reflected sunlight is travelling through.

http://iss.astroviewer.net/observation.php

Use this link to view its current location and next projected passes.

Keep looking up.

I disagree with your opinion that it may be the ISS. Colour, and direction aside, to the naked eye from the ground the ISS would appear to travel in a perfectly stright line. Any changes in direction or altitude would not be perceptible to the naked eye. Most certainly the sudden dipping motion as relayed by the OP would rule the ISS out. Comment on this.

zenno

Galadriel wrote: »

Erm, yes he did, he said 'not a human craft' in the link on his first post.

saying "Not a human craft" does not mean spaceship learn the difference between these two differences please.

haulagebasher

Galadriel wrote: »

Erm, yes he did, he said 'not a human craft' in the link on his first post.

A chinese lantern could be considered a craft. Also it is not manned. Thus not a human craft.

Galadriel

Galadriel wrote: »

Did you read the link the OP posted? he said that it wasn't a human craft, so if not human then what did he mean?

Chimp ? Like Ham the astronaut