Posted on 06/19/2014 3:44:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin
CAMP PENDLETON (CBSLA.com) — Did you see strange lights in the night sky?
Our KCAL9 Street Team mobilized Wednesday night after receiving several reports of orange lights appearing various parts of southern Orange County.
Viewer “Marilyn” sent KCAL9 video footage that apparently showed two round and apparently parallel objects pulsing and hovering near Trabuco Canyon around 10:15 p.m.
Several viewers reported spotting similar objects over Camp Pendleton. Authorities at the U.S. Marine Corps base confirmed there was live fire training last night.
Similar sightings were also reported in northern San Diego County and parts of Riverside County.
It wasn’t immediately clear what the source of the lights was.
Check out the video above and decide for yourself.
See post #3
M. Rennie and his best pal GORT swingin’ by to deliver another ‘warning’?
Might also be:
Scientists find records of rare ‘earthquake lights’
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/02/earthquake-lights-rare-phenomenon/4255097/
Note: These lights were spotted in the general area of the long quiet Elsinore Fault http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsinore_Fault_Zone
Do you really think -- with all the attention in Southern California on wildfires in this drought -- that people are going to send burning candles up in the air in balloons down there?
Do you know how much trouble they would get into if they were found out?
-PJ
See post #11
-PJ
Seems from the article we can expect an earthquake near Ft. Pendleton. We shall see. Mt. Adams in Washington has also had some unexplained lights in the past.
I think on average I look to the skies as much as the other guy.
Why is it I never get to see these things?
Must be I’m not looking hard enough!
It’s Russian jets.
Only one. The other two were NK and Chinese.
As dinner, or for dinner?
I’ve seen the candle balloons getting launched by the dozen, last year, Grand Haven beach. There is simply no way for those to cause a flap of any kind. They look good-sized close up, but turn into a dim, and quickly nearly invisible dot, rising higher and higher and out of sight, until the flame dies, at which time they cease to be luminous at all and just sink to the ground.
The military may have been using large flares for some kind of training or readiness, and either deny knowledge of it, or the spokesperson asked for comment might not have any idea that it went on anyway.
The fact that these kinds of unidentified nocturnal lights (to use the term coined by J. Allen Hynek) have been reported since long before the US military used flares for anything, or had aircraft, or bases out west, or indeed before the US (leave alone the US miltary) existed, shouldn’t dissuade everyone from the idea of a mundane explanation. /s
“Seems from the article we can expect an earthquake near Ft. Pendleton.”
The Corps doesn’t have forts. We have camps. This is the reason for the unusually high smores budget in the USMC.
Do you really think — with all the attention in Southern California on wildfires in this drought — that people are going to send burning candles up in the air in balloons down there?
I used to make hydrogen and fill ballons with it, carefully tie on a greased cotton string, light it and release. It was fairly low key.
Well I then graduated when a bottle of helium showed up at work. I would fill one balloon with helium, and then another with acetylene. the 2 balloons were then tethered to each other, then the bottom acetylene balloon got the greased string treatment.
It was a balancing act getting the “fuse” just right but after some trial and error I got it.
Releasing these at night you could see the flame at the end of the string as is wigwagged back and forth... timing these from the flash to the arrival of the explosion, I was able to determine they were about 2 to 3 miles away, and judging from the angle above the horizon about 2500’ elevation.
That wasn’t good enough though.
The final product used helium for lift in a large garbage bag... and the explosive charge was a stoiciometric mixture of acetylene and oxygen... which yielded a very VERY violent and very loud explosion.
This was pre 9/11... if I did this now-a-days... I would be the last one 0bama would set free from Gitmo.
that is a classic parachute deployed fusee (flare)... they extinguished one by one in a line, right?
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the grand finale was the night when it was plastered all over the news that tbe space shuttle and the Russian space station MIR were disclosed as being visible that night passing overhead in tandem as the space shuttle approached MIR to dock.
I made up 2 aerial devices and launched them about 10 minutes before the published time of the flyover... so anyone that was within 30 miles of me that was curious would be looking up for 2 dots of light...
BOOM!
I came to enjoy being waterboarded.
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