Orange Lights Seen Floating Over Palm Bay Florida (Chinese Lanterns)

Date:  December 14, 2012
Time:  Evening.

My name is (name removed). I also saw those lights floating up over Palm Bay, Florida on that night.

They were fairly close to my house and they are without question Chinese lanterns that were released that evening.

Not sure why they were released, but that's what they are.

If anyone has had a UFO/UFOs sighting, please send me an email at sighting@telus.net or fill out the online UFO report form at http://sightings1.yolasite.com/ with details of what you saw. 

Please remember to include the date and time and location. (Town/City – State or Province) and as much detail as possible.

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Houston, British Columbia, Canada.

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Witness Reports Orange Lights To Be Chinese Lanterns Over Kingston Ontario (Solved - Chinese Lanterns)

Date:  September 12, 2014
Time:  Approx: 8:00 p.m.

Vike Factor Note: The witness for this sighting report below saw the same orange lights as reported earlier to me, these lights turned out to be Chinese Lanterns.

I really appreciate the person for letting me know. So case solved. Also below I have a link to the original sighting report which I have updated as solved. http://the-v-factor-paranormal.blogspot.ca/2014/09/approximately-12-flashing-orange.html

We saw these as well and we're alarmed at first as well. We decided to follow them to there source around the police station on Division Street.

They turned out to be those little paper lanterns that when lit float in the sky. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_lantern

If anyone has witnessed the lights/objects, please send me an email with details of what you saw. Please remember to include the date and time and location. (Town/City – State or Province) and as much detail as possible.

If you care to report directly to a UFO investigator in Ontario, please contact Sue Demeter - St Clair at her email address admin@pararesearchers.org or fill out her reporting form here: http://psican.org/alpha/uforeporting.htm

Brian Vike.
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Houston, British Columbia, Canada.

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Chinese Lanterns Released For Chinese New Year Celebration Marietta Georgia

 

Date:  February 5, 2011

Time: Approx: 10:30 p.m.

 

They were flying lanterns released for a Chinese New Year celebration:

 

Additional Information and Photos:

 

Brian, we released about 15 sky lanterns to celebrate Chinese New Years at about 10:30 p.m. (I think) on Saturday 2/5/11.

 

We are about 0.5 miles due west from the Square. They were gorgeous, each carrying a wish for the New Year.

 

They achieved pretty high altitude, and I can definitely understand that without any context, these lanterns could've been pretty eerie.

 

They drifted mainly East over the square and probably burned for 5-10 minutes. I attached some pictures.

 

I wish you prosperity for the new lunar year!

 

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Light Rising From The Ground To The Sky Over Zephyrhills Florida (Chinese Lanterns)

 

Date:  March 16, 2012

Time:  Approx: 9:00 p.m.

Hi Brian, my name is (name removed). I was on vacation in Zephyrhills and saw these lights. I walked outside and saw them. I ran inside to get the rest of the family.

Nobody knew what they were. I called my mom who was about 8 miles down the road.

I had her look outside and she just saw the very end of them.

The lights almost seem like they were floating, maybe with the wind.

They were going from the ground up to the sky. They went a long ways. I almost thought they might be those bags that fly up with a candle in them, but I think these
lights were to big and bright for that.

I don’t know what they were and it is still bugging me. I was at my in-laws in a trailer park for retirees. We got several others in the park to see them. 

If you find out anything please let me know. Thanks!

Additional Information:

Hi, I think it was the same as the other person. March 16th about 9:00 p.m. Any idea what they are?

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Orange Lights Seen Over Redlands And Loma Linda California Turn Out To Be Chinese Lanterns

 

Date:  March 2012

Time:  Evenings.

 

Vike Factor Note: I would like to thank the gentleman for sending in the information.

 

Hello Mr. Vike, several night watchmen at my company have seen the orange light a number of times this week. We believe that Chinese lanterns are the culprit. They are being launched several times a week now from the Redlands or Loma Linda area.

 

The balloons use a burning fuel cell sometimes made of wax. They can fly for around 20 minutes before going out. Just before the lantern go out it drops streams of burning wax all over the ground, then flicker out.

 

This is only a problem when the lanterns hover at 10-20 feet off the ground where they could start a fire. From even a small distance at night they just appear to be an orange fire hovering around the mountain side.

 

The manufacturers of the product claim their lanterns are completely biodegradable.

 

I don't think these are safe to be launching into the heavy commercial, private and Military air traffic that fills the San Bernardo night sky, or sending flammables hovering over the San Bernardino mountains range which is on fire nearly all spring and summer each year.

 

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Orange Lights Spotted Over Mahwah New Jersey (Chinese Lanterns)

 

Date:  March 17, 2012

Time:  Evening.

 

I saw the same thing over Mahwah, NJ Saturday night, 3-17-12. We saw one fly past every 10 minutes in the same flight pattern. Orange ball of light, almost looked like a giant plastic bag with a flame inside.

 

We would watch it fly away until it got so small we couldn't see it anymore. We were outside by the fire pit in the backyard. We had about six kids with us and eight adults.

 

We made so much noise the neighbors came out with binoculars. We called the police to report it. The police came just as the fourth one showed up.

 

About fifteen minutes later we saw 3 more, but they looked like they were coming from the ground up, maybe 2 or 3 streets away.

 

So the cop took off to investigate.

 

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Silent Slow Moving Orange Lights Over Oliver Lake In South Gillies Ontario (Chinese Lanterns)

 

Date:  December 24, 2011

Time:  Evening

 

Hello, we've seen the slow-moving orange lights someone described on the website I visited with your email address on it, and I think they are Chinese floating lanterns that people are releasing recently, both from rural properties, and someone down near the waterfront, as well.

 

They move slowly through the sky, make no sound, and if they are high enough, it's hard to see the flickering of the flame inside (although sometimes they do appear to brighten and dim in intensity).

 

The first time I saw one was on Christmas Eve, 2011, over Hillcrest Park, and I was quite excited by it, not sure what it was until I found out some people I knew had been releasing these things out by Oliver Lake in South Gillies. 

 

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UFOs Or Paper Lanterns ?

 

By Jennifer Lang - Cloverdale Reporter
Published: January 25, 2012 6:00 a.m.

Was it a practice run for the Mayan calendar prediction? Was it E.T. phoning home?

Or was it a group of illuminated, floating paper lanterns, released into the skies over Cloverdale by some celebrant who got carried away by the spirit of the season?

To read the entire article, please visit the Cloverdale Reporter’s newspaper website at: http://www.cloverdalereporter.com/news/138008863.html

Red Lights Near Bob Evans In Athens Ohio (Possible Chinese Lanterns)

 

Date:  December 24, 2011

Time:  Approx: 9:30 p.m.

 

Those flew right over my head. I only caught the last 5 of them. I was told they were red lanterns sent up in Albany Ohio. They were absolutely quite, but my only doubt was how fast they went over my head. I was near Bob Evans in Athens at the time.

 

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6 Or 7 Balls Of Orange Light Over Jacksonville Florida (Chinese Lanterns)

 

Hello, I was reading your comments on the internet about the orange balls of light you saw in Jacksonville, Florida. I just saw these last night. My neighbor did too. There were about 6 or seven of them that seem to be floating upward.

They were big and lasted for awhile. I looked at them thru my binoculars and it sort of looked like a floating white opaque paper bag or chefs hat with an orange fire attached to it. Very strange. Did you ever find out what it is?

Additional Information:

I think you are right- this looks like what they were. I have never heard of these things before or seen them before. Thank you for solving my mystery.

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Bright Red Ball Of Light With Fire Underneath Over Bonita Springs Florida (Chinese Lantern)

 

Date:  May 24, 2011

Time:  10:30 p.m.

 

Number of witnesses: 1

Number of Objects: 1

Shape of Objects: Bright red ball with fire underneath, moving to the gulf slow, but direct.

 

Full Description of Event/Sighting: The object made a slight sound and I looked up over my head and saw the bright red ball with fire under it.

 

I watched it move towards the gulf. I called the police, not any other reports. This was very strange it was not a weather balloon.

 

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21 Red Orange Lights Over Huntington Beach California (Chinese Lanterns)

 

Date:  November 2, 2011

Time:  From about 8:00 p.m. to 8:10 p.m.

 

Location: Huntington Beach, Ca. Life guard Pier 20. Off Goldenwest Blvd and PCH

 

We seen many. There was about 21 of them, they look like they were all lifting off at the same time. Not like airplanes do, one after another. These reddish orange things, flew at a regular speed until they just disappeared.

 

They seem to move  faster as they got further. The strange thing about it was that, the the fifth little flashing light, just starting floating and flashing a bright white light, none of the other lights flew past that one, they all seemed to follow a path.

 

They just kept coming one after another, up to 21. We got to a part of the beach right off Goldenwest, and spent about an hour at the beach. From about 7:00 p.m. to 8:10 p.m.

 

My friend noticed them right away. We just sat and chatted for about 15 minutes watching them fly away. When airplanes fly by, it was very obvious that they were not the same colors, mobility or speed. 

 

For a minute I had guessed they might be Chinese lanterns, because of their colors and proximity to each other. 

 

Glad we're not the only ones who seen this.

 

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About 10 Orange Lights Over North Attleborough Massachusetts (Chinese Lanterns)

 

Date:  October 9, 2010 (?)

Time:  Approx: 10:00 p.m.

Hi.  I too saw about 10 of these hot air balloons in the sky. It was probably around 10:00pm and I was traveling 95 north. My girlfriend and I thought for sure they were aliens –: Thanks for posting the answers!

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25-30 Deep Orange Colored Lights Over Lebanon Indiana (Chinese Lanterns)

Date: October 1, 2011
Time: Approx: 9:00 p.m.

My daughter and I originally saw 3 deep orange colored objects in a rectangle shape around 9:00pm October 1, 2011. We pulled over in the car in town to try and find them and they slowly went out do east of us about 20 to 30 degrees up from ground.

As those went out, we started to see a steady group of the same shape and color. 9:15 to approximately 9:30pm. In total 25-30 objects were seen going in the same direction ending the same way the proceeding 3 did. I was informed that a few Facebook people in the area saw these also.

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Over Twelve Orange Lights Over Lebanon Indiana (Chinese Lanterns)

Date: October 1, 2011

Time: Approx: 8:30 p.m.

I personally viewed the lights over Lebanon, in where I live on the west side. My daughter, her friend, myself and my ex-wife all witnessed over twelve lights.

They flickered like candles, orange, and ascended slowly moving from north to south basically. I watched them dim and burnout. My assessment was either a celebration where people released Asian lanterns, rice paper bags with candles, or it was a hoax with the same lanterns.

My eyes as well as the girls saw flickering like a flame. A small flame. I respect MUFON and other observers of phenomena, but this one I believe was easily explainable. They didn't ever move in any other direction, their speed was determined by the speed of the wind, and they burned out as such.

They did at one point have a triangle of five of them as geese flying south but that seemed just coincidental. I posted my finding on Facebook almost immediately. I truly wished I had seen UFO's but not today.

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Glowing Orange Ember Like Lights Over Lansing Michigan (Chinese Lanterns)

Date: March 25 and 26th, 2011

Time: 10:20 p.m.

Last night there were 2 glowing orange ember-like lights moving independently, but along same course, rising in altitude until gone. Silent. Too erratic for planes, too silent and close to each other for copters.

Tonight, the same description, but only single object. Same time, 10:20pm. Seemed to rise right from our neighbor's yard, and move right through ours over our house and across street in time it took me to get outside. So close, I feel like I could identify glow of open flame beneath circular white canopy of fabric. Some sort of balloon or Chinese lantern. Much smaller than hot air balloon.

Sightings in Waverly area of Lansing of St. Joe between Snow and Waverly roads. Moving SW. I've set my alarm to watch again tonight with camera.

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5 Or 6 Floating Orange Lights Over Atlanta Georgia (Chinese Lanterns)

Date: January 15, 2011

Time: Approx: 7:00 p.m.

Brian, I live in Atlanta and saw something similar to what you described. Tonight, a group of us were tailgating in a parking lot outside the Georgia Dome prior to the Atlanta Falcons playoffs game. Around 7:00pm, about a dozen of us saw 5 or 6 floating orange lights that looked like they were hanging from some sort of parachute.

I have to assume that hundred of others saw the same thing, given that there were many people tailgating all around us. Because it had just turned dark, it was hard to see them very clearly. They were maybe 300 feet over the ground, traveling at perhaps 30mph. They gradually made their way out of sight after several minutes. Very strange.

Any explanation?

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Numerous Eyewitnesses Observe Orange/Red Lights Over Thompson Manitoba – (Case Solved Hot Air Balloons/Lanterns) Pictures

On December 24, 2010 eyewitnesses reported seeing orange/red lights traveling overhead in the sky at Thompson Manitoba.

People wondered what in the heck these lights were, no explanation was found until one person saw the lights, and watched as one of them happened to fall out of the sky and into the snow.

Below is an email I received from the fellow and pictures he was kind enough to send of the object.

I hate to burst your bubble, but I seen the same lights as did a lot of people that I know and they are nothing but Chinese lanterns. One came down and landed in the Snow in the same area where we looking at the lights that night around 8:00 p.m.

Left Photo: For a larger view of the balloon/Chinese lantern, please click on the picture.

There were about 5 of us when this happened. I’m going to my Mom’s at lunch to see if the lantern is still in my garage. I can send it to you if you like!

It was kind of chewed up because her “dog” got a hold of it, but it was a Lantern.

Brian Vike wishes to thank all of the eyewitnesses who filed their sighting reports to him, and he would also like to thank the fellow who was kind enough to send along the pictures of the lantern/balloon which was the cause of all the excitement in Thompson Manitoba.

Left Photo: For a larger view of the balloon/Chinese lantern, please click on the picture.

Below is a report from one of the witnesses, all the other sighting reports were similar.

Now the pictures I just pasted into different areas in the report, but they all came from the fellow who watched one of the lanterns drop from the sky.

4 Orange Red Balls Of Light Over Thompson Manitoba

Date: December 24, 2010
Time: Evening.

Tonight, December 24, 2010, My mom, her friend and her husband and I, and others on our street saw 4 Orange/reddish balls of light above Thompson Manitoba. They were heading northeast. We could tell that they were not planes, they moved at different paces at different times, and seemed to change altitude greatly within 5-10 seconds, they went up much higher. They seemed to travel a large distance in 2-3 seconds. Nothing that I have every seen a normal aircraft to do.

Left Photo: For a larger view of the balloon/Chinese lantern, please click on the picture.

They first appear when we came home from church, only one at first, we thought it was a star, maybe Mars. When we got out, a neighbor pointed out that there was more. 4 to be exact. As they moved, they got smaller, when they got smaller, they seemed to slow, as if gaining height. Within a minute, they disappeared, One by one.

We couldn't explain it, so I searched for an answer.

This happened less than an hour ago.

That you for your time. If you have any answers, or ideas, please contact me back.

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Golden Orange Lights Over Redding Connecticut (Chinese Lanterns)

Date: December 31, 2010

Time: 10:15 p.m.

Hi Vike, after alerting friends and family of the orange UFOs over Redding CT at 10:15 pm New Year's Eve, one sent the posting from January 1 on your website describing the site (http://unitedstatesufo.blogspot.com/2011/01/10-golden-orange-lights-over-redding.html) .

My wife and I saw the same objects, and were initially stunned, it was quite a dramatic sight. After Googling that evening various terms, however, upon entering "orange UFOs" I came across links to a company that sells "Chinese sky lanterns" and I think that's what we saw, the photos and videos available online appear very similar to what we saw crossing over our house.

The one caveat was that on the ground, there was little wind, and when I first saw the objects I had thought they were moving too fast to be any kind of a firework product. But we live below a ridge line, and it is probably the wind was blowing harder at the altitude the objects were flying at.

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Many Orange Lights Over Gateshead Tyne And Wear UK (Lanterns)

Date: January 1, 2011
Time: After Midnight

Hi, I’ve just been looking on the internet to see if anyone else saw the orange lights I saw on New Years eve, just gone, and found your site. I was at my mum’s house having a ciggie at the back door and watched at least five orange lights fly overhead. My mum lives in Gateshead, Tyne & Wear. So they were visible in the Northeast of England too.

I eventually pointed one out to my mum, having gone back inside I didn’t tell anyone as they may think I was just exaggerating, but having seen in the New Year, going back outside to my dad’s car to be taken home, the lights were still going overhead, so there must have been a steady stream of them whilst I was otherwise occupied.

Being driven home they were still coming towards the same direction, making a total of 6 that I did see. I tried taking a photo on my phone, but all I got was the black sky. They were following one another at a steady speed, at the same height, going in the same direction.

As some people have suggested Chinese lanterns, I don’t think lanterns would stay at the same height at the same time or all travel in the same direction. They were pretty bright lights too. Yours Sincerely.

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