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Orange dots in the sky

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  • #32
    AARRRGH
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    Cunny-Funt wrote: »
    This stuff happens quite a lot actually. There just really isn't much that can be done.

    People see this stuff, but all the can do is tell other people. Who'll generally dismiss them. Until one day they see something, only to be dismissed by everyone else cept the the guy who spoke to them before.

    All in all, some will believe you, most will just think your either lying are too stupid to know what a plane looks like.

    But you'll never get answers.

    I've not personally seen anything like lights in the sky etc. I saw something in broad daylight. I don't talk about it however as its pointless.

    Good post.

    Myself and my friend saw something which makes absolutely no sense.

    I still can't rationalise it at all.

    No one believes us, so I just don't talk about it anymore.


  • #33
    BaconZombie
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    morning.png

    http://xkcd.com/395/


  • #34
    Duff
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    dublindude wrote: »
    Good post.

    Myself and my friend saw something which makes absolutely no sense.

    I still can't rationalise it at all.

    No one believes us, so I just don't talk about it anymore.


    Share your encounters on the paranormal forum in the UFOlogy thread..


  • #35
    Deliverance
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    Could have been a projection from some kind of concert or event? Similar laser technology was used 20yrs ago to put moving light 'dot' type patterns in the sky and they were fascinating to watch and could be seen for miles. Probably much better these days and easy to do with the right equipment. The fact that the lights were orange might suggest that it was a projection.


  • #36
    FruitLover
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    I for one welcome our new orangey alien overlords.


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  • #37
    Deliverance
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    FruitLover wrote: »
    I for one welcome our new orangey alien overlords.
    I think it is a lemon meself.


  • #38
    ronbyrne2005
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    Probably Chinese Lanterns that people have been releasing at BBQs over last few summers. Any advanced civilisations/life forms arriving here would'nt be advertising themselves in such a manner IMO.


  • #39
    pd101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭pd101


    I saw orange lights in the sky too last year and looked exactly like what you see on these ufo documentaries, but a couple of days later I found out that they were just flares that the army were using up in the Glen of Imaal. It could have been something similar you saw.


  • #40
    Deliverance
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    FruitLover wrote: »
    I for one welcome our new orangey alien overlords.

    Well, you are a fruit lover.


  • #41
    spiderbeast
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    Kernel wrote: »
    You could try:

    http://www.ufoinfo.com/sightings/ireland.shtml

    or for a list of organisations:

    http://www.ufoinfo.com/organizations/org_eire.shtml

    Do you know what direction the lights were travelling? Were they in a fixed formation? Change direction? I would be prone to believe you of course, many many people have seen unexplained objects in the sky.

    Check out the disclosure project for some good info on the topic: http://www.disclosureproject.org/

    The experts believe full disclosure of the topic will happen very shortly.

    The lights were heading from south to north. There were about 5 dots going at the same speed and spaced out at the same distance, then a 6th dot followed about 30 secs later.


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  • #42
    spiderbeast
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    I think the most like theory is this............"There is an Aer Corps base in Gormanstown. Testing their anti-aircraft guns?"


  • #43
    Wertz
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    Probably just the ISS illuminated by twilight.
    http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/view.cgi?country=Ireland&region=None&city=Dublin
    The second sighting time on that table corresponds to the OP's timing, the track is about right, and it took 5 min to traverse the sky, which would account for the plane-like speed.

    Dublindude's story is better, and like I mentioned when he posted it, me and a mate saw almost the same thing one night about 10 yrs ago. Still no expanation for that, including inebriation...grand to post about it on a web forum, not the sort of thing you bring up in general conversation...


  • #44
    Tenger
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    Wertz wrote: »
    Probably just the ISS illuminated by twilight.
    http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/view.cgi?country=Ireland&region=None&city=Dublin
    The second sighting time on that table corresponds to the OP's timing, the track is about right, and it took 5 min to traverse the sky, which would account for the plane-like speed.

    I would rule out the ISS. I have seen it on several occasions and it is a white coloured light. Perhaps the orange lights are another form of orbiting object.

    Commercial aircraft use red and/or white flashing lights so it would not have been helicopter/airplane. The garda chopper is a regular near Tymon Park and its flies low and therefore loud.

    And a line of orange lights- perhaps some form of test balloon. Very few private aircraft would be flying at night as vast majority of flightplans in Ireland are visual navigation (VFR)


  • #45
    FunkZ
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    Jaysus none of yis have copped it, at least we now have a forum for this to help but these are the worst kind.

    Space Zombies!


  • #46
    nyarlothothep
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    I believe you, and its not anything normal like concert lasers or helicopters, but I can't tell you what they really are for my own safety.


  • #47
    Wertz
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    Bramble wrote: »
    I would rule out the ISS. I have seen it on several occasions and it is a white coloured light. Perhaps the orange lights are another form of orbiting object.

    Commercial aircraft use red and/or white flashing lights so it would not have been helicopter/airplane. The garda chopper is a regular near Tymon Park and its flies low and therefore loud.

    And a line of orange lights- perhaps some form of test balloon. Very few private aircraft would be flying at night as vast majority of flightplans in Ireland are visual navigation (VFR)

    I've seen the ISS myself, and the light can vary depending on the time you see it at...if it's anywhere near the terminator line, then atmospheric scattering of the light can make it other colours than just white...if you get sunlight glinting off the solar panels, it can appear as more than just one light source...if they're dumping water ice, that too can be seen....and if there's a shuttle mission docked or coming to or from the station, the shuttle can be seen as well.

    The OP hasn't defined the size or magnitude of the lights they saw, so it's impossible to say what they saw. Thjere was some very intense thunderstorm activity over europe that day too...perhaps some form of ball lightning, jet or sprite...perhaps a small line of meteoroids skimming the upper atmosphere (the orange colour would favour this).
    I dunno...I'm just trying to get past the whole AH thing..."lol aliens", "you're mad/drunk/high" etc...


  • #48
    Kernel
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    Wertz wrote: »
    I've seen the ISS myself, and the light can vary depending on the time you see it at...if it's anywhere near the terminator line, then atmospheric scattering of the light can make it other colours than just white...if you get sunlight glinting off the solar panels, it can appear as more than just one light source...if they're dumping water ice, that too can be seen....and if there's a shuttle mission docked or coming to or from the station, the shuttle can be seen as well.

    The OP hasn't defined the size or magnitude of the lights they saw, so it's impossible to say what they saw. Thjere was some very intense thunderstorm activity over europe that day too...perhaps some form of ball lightning, jet or sprite...perhaps a small line of meteoroids skimming the upper atmosphere (the orange colour would favour this).
    I dunno...I'm just trying to get past the whole AH thing..."lol aliens", "you're mad/drunk/high" etc...

    All good possible explanations in fairness. I'd be a bit doubtful about the ISS, mainly since I'm a (very) amateur astronomer and have observed the ISS. Ball lightening is possible, meteoroids spaced out to appear in formation that low on the horizon is unlikely, but possible. I think it's an interesting sighting though. I think the US military is flying a lot of strange things, there have been a lot of sightings of huge slow flying triangles around the USA, which are said to be completely silent. People have speculated that they may be using electrostatic lift, the problem is generating enough electrostatic energy for such a size, which cannot be explained by conventional propulsion techniques.


  • #49
    Wertz
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    Kernel wrote: »
    All good possible explanations in fairness. I'd be a bit doubtful about the ISS, mainly since I'm a (very) amateur astronomer and have observed the ISS. Ball lightening is possible, meteoroids spaced out to appear in formation that low on the horizon is unlikely, but possible. I think it's an interesting sighting though. I think the US military is flying a lot of strange things, there have been a lot of sightings of huge slow flying triangles around the USA, which are said to be completely silent. People have speculated that they may be using electrostatic lift, the problem is generating enough electrostatic energy for such a size, which cannot be explained by conventional propulsion techniques.

    Yeah I'm not trying to take away from the OP's view on what it might have been by writing it off as something mundane a lá "weather balloon", just noticed that the ISS orbital chart gave 12 midnight friday as a passing time. Seemed like too much of a cooincidence.

    As regards the black triangles (with optional lights), that's what dublindude posted about a few weeks back, he described it pretty similarly to what me and my mate saw off the Louth coast at 3am one summer's morning in ~'96...same gig, silent, moving at a slower pace than a plane would (to physically stay in the air), dark with some running lights...it could only just be made out against the starry sky...watched it for about 2 minutes until it passed on. Never did come up with a rational explanation...I've seen a B-2 fly past at a US airshow...what we saw was a fair bit bigger, moved a lot slower and didn't make a whisper...the B-2 is pretty loud, especially when it passes.

    Lights like the OP described have been seen for years, some reports date back well before man managed to achieve flight...they may well be some kind of natural phenomenon occuring high up in the ionosphere. Interestingly enough, reports of these things spike at times of seismic activity...some people have suggested a link, perhaps to do with the earth's magnetism...


  • #50
    Kernel
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    Wertz wrote: »
    Yeah I'm not trying to take away from the OP's view on what it might have been by writing it off as something mundane a lá "weather balloon", just noticed that the ISS orbital chart gave 12 midnight friday as a passing time. Seemed like too much of a cooincidence.

    Fair play, I didn't even check the orbit times.
    Wertz wrote: »
    As regards the black triangles (with optional lights), that's what dublindude posted about a few weeks back, he described it pretty similarly to what me and my mate saw off the Louth coast at 3am one summer's morning in ~'96...same gig, silent, moving at a slower pace than a plane would (to physically stay in the air), dark with some running lights...it could only just be made out against the starry sky...watched it for about 2 minutes until it passed on. Never did come up with a rational explanation...I've seen a B-2 fly past at a US airshow...what we saw was a fair bit bigger, moved a lot slower and didn't make a whisper...the B-2 is pretty loud, especially when it passes.

    They're being spotted all over the US. Phoenix lights incident being the most famous. For anyone interested, the Janes Defence Weekly writer, Nick Cook, wrote a good book called 'the hunt for zero point', in which he investigates possible US research into radical methods of propulsion. Compelling read. His documentaries are on google.video here. Billion dollar secret is his latest AFAIK. He has some good interviews in which people in the know say things, without saying anything concrete, if you know what I mean.
    Wertz wrote: »
    Lights like the OP described have been seen for years, some reports date back well before man managed to achieve flight...they may well be some kind of natural phenomenon occuring high up in the ionosphere. Interestingly enough, reports of these things spike at times of seismic activity...some people have suggested a link, perhaps to do with the earth's magnetism...

    I myself witnessed a metallic sphere in the sky during the daytime, sunlight reflecting from it. It was stationary, blinked out, and re-appeared a distance away. This happened a couple of times. Like others, I don't generally talk about it unless someone else asks! :D


  • #51
    Cunny-Funt
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    Kernel wrote: »
    I myself witnessed a metallic sphere in the sky during the daytime, sunlight reflecting from it. It was stationary, blinked out, and re-appeared a distance away. This happened a couple of times. Like others, I don't generally talk about it unless someone else asks! :D

    very smiler to what I saw. cept for me it just flew by at an incredible speed. VERY close to where I was. No sound at all, I just so happened to be looking out the window at the time. I freaked the **** out I can tell yea.

    There was a car ad recently where this metallic egg shaped thing drives down the road and turns into a car, looked a lot like that.


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  • #52
    gurramok
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    You were on the set of that cancelled series Invasion OP :D


  • #53
    dog-man-star
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    I think its an ad campaign for the new X-files movie!
    Fox have a lot of dosh to spend :)


  • #54
    Glowing
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    Sounds like those candle lanterns - they're visable from quite far away, move quite slowly in the same direction .. and then dissapear when the candle goes out .....


  • #55
    bug
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    <<Orange dots in the sky - boards.ie.htm>>

    I saw these too!!! I was walking down the hall last night and I saw them out the front door, though they were car tail lights reflecting but now I know they were not. Tell the people on Boards!!!!

    I just got this email from my sister. We also live in the same area.
    P.s. she is crazy though.


  • #56
    spiderbeast
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    bug wrote: »
    I just got this email from my sister. We also live in the same area.
    P.s. she is crazy though.

    It's odd how so many people have seen this and the media have shown no interest


  • #57
    Kernel
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    spiderbeast wrote: »
    It's odd how so many people have seen this and the media have shown no interest

    Irish media is still well behind - probably still in the 'light hearted laugh' at the notion of little green men from space abducting leprechauns. The usual insulting/condescending attitude towards these things. Much like the tin-foil hat loons spouting 9/11 conspiracies attitudes. However, there are indications that the US mainstream media (MSM) are finally beginning to treat the witness reports of UFOs as more than delusional redneck hicks on the hooch. Larry King and CNN have done a couple of serious reports lately.


  • #58
    tbv_008
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    On a similar note, saw two lights in the sky this evening - looked like aeroplanes but moving in parallel with quite a large distance between them - moving quite quickly too. Someone suggested perhaps a plane refuelling - anyone else see them or know what they were?


  • #59
    APM
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    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055304720

    Space Shuttle Discovery launching this eve


  • #60
    rovers2001
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    tbv_008 wrote: »
    On a similar note, saw two lights in the sky this evening - looked like aeroplanes but moving in parallel with quite a large distance between them - moving quite quickly too. Someone suggested perhaps a plane refuelling - anyone else see them or know what they were?

    Yeah it was the space shuttle and its very large fuel tank breaking away from it on their way to the international space station.spectacular site.


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  • #61
    paulocon
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    Cool... Just saw it completely by chance - took a break from mowing the lawn to speak to the neighbours when I spied it out of the corner of my eye.. delighted to have seen it!!


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