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Stunned Onlookers Watch As Mysterious Orange UFOs Swoop Across Britain's Skies
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | June 03, 2009

Posted on 06/03/2009 3:24:13 PM PDT by Steelfish

Stunned onlookers watch as mysterious orange UFOs swoop across Britain's skies

By Daily Mail Reporter 03rd June 2009

A procession of up to 50 mysterious orange lights has been baffling eyewitnesses after it was seen sweeping across Britain's skies.

In the last three weeks there have been three separate sightings in this country and even one in Holland. The most recent sighting was on Sunday night when the lights were seen in two different locations, Liverpool and Lincoln. Onlookers said they saw the orange lights hovering above Lincoln, before moving off in different directions and eventually shooting straight up into space.

Stunned: Families in Lincoln spotted glowing orange spheres grouped together in the sky on Sunday night

Eerie: Witnesses reported seeing the lights flying in an apparent formation, dodging and darting around each other before disappearing

In Merseyside, the lights have led to claims that the alleged UFOs were connected to a military exercise involving one of the Navy's warships.

It is believed the lights could have been 'counter measures' to test the radar systems on the HMS Daring. In Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, families looked up last Wednesday and saw lights stream across the night sky for half an hour.

The lights have even been seen as far afield as Holland, with reports of glowing objects in the sky reported on May 11th.

Engineer Paul Slight was returning home in Lincoln from a day out cycling with friends when he spotted the bright orange lights hovering over the city and even flying in an apparent formation.

Mr Slight, 54, said: 'There were 26 of them at first, dodging and darting in between each other like they were playing a game.

'After that, seven more arrived from the right-hand side and weaved through the crowd of lights like strange kinds of aircraft.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: ufo
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1 posted on 06/03/2009 3:24:14 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Quix; Las Vegas Dave

>>>PING<<<


2 posted on 06/03/2009 3:29:04 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Steelfish

Once again, no one has a decent camera.


3 posted on 06/03/2009 3:30:13 PM PDT by americanophile
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To: Steelfish
... now I heard that weather balloons will do that when they're electrically charged after being aloft for a few hours .... /s
4 posted on 06/03/2009 3:31:02 PM PDT by Ken522
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To: Bon mots; Quix
Seems things are accelerating, be still my rapidly beating heart.
5 posted on 06/03/2009 3:31:46 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (All aboard the 1st Annual Free Republic National Tea Party Convention 9/10-9/12. Be there!!!)
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To: Steelfish

6 posted on 06/03/2009 3:33:54 PM PDT by BGHater (It's easy to be a Conservative now.)
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To: Steelfish

See URL for more pics


7 posted on 06/03/2009 3:35:39 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

That’s the “mothership” coming to pick up Gordon Brown.


8 posted on 06/03/2009 3:36:12 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Spay or Neuter your liberal today!)
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To: BGHater

tracer bullets.


9 posted on 06/03/2009 3:40:30 PM PDT by fish hawk (The trouble with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Steelfish

Air Force One doing a photo-op flyover of Big Ben on the way to the “homeland”?


10 posted on 06/03/2009 3:41:46 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Steelfish

ING commercial gone bad?


11 posted on 06/03/2009 3:46:51 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Tyranny is always whimsical." Mark Steyn 3/9/2009)
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To: Steelfish

Looks like someone’s having a good ole’ fashioned pumpkin trebuchet party.


12 posted on 06/03/2009 3:51:24 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: Steelfish

I don’t know who or what these things are, but I hope they’ve come to save us.


13 posted on 06/03/2009 3:51:36 PM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: Steelfish
From the looks of it, it looks like those firefly Chinese lanterns. They put a candle in the base and let them fly.. the gas builds up in the lantern and its lighter then air so they float. They usually release them for special events by the hundreds or thousands.

They look something like this as they are let free

And you can buy them here

http://www.shrubs.co.uk/firefly-chinese-lanterns-10-pack-15068-p.asp

14 posted on 06/03/2009 3:51:49 PM PDT by eXe (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

Read this completly fabricated story concerning the npn-existent UFO’s.

When you have your event please post it for the rest of us.


15 posted on 06/03/2009 4:10:05 PM PDT by stockpirate (The 2nd amendment protects all other rights as outlined in our constitution. Without it we fall.)
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To: eXe
From the looks of it, it looks like those firefly Chinese lanterns.

Well, from the article, one family described the lights as being "as big as a house", so I'm not sure the Chinese lantern theory will work, unless they were really, really big lanterns.
16 posted on 06/03/2009 4:17:08 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: Ken522

That only applies if the weather balloons are filled with swamp gas. That’s why they switched to helium...the “explosion risk” of usuing swamp gas was just a cover story.


17 posted on 06/03/2009 4:35:45 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The mob got President Barabbas; America got shafted)
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To: Steelfish; Jeremiah Jr; martin_fierro; aculeus; dighton; Constitution Day; null and void

18 posted on 06/03/2009 4:40:09 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: Bon mots; Las Vegas Dave; DCPatriot

Heading out to dindin

LVD or DCP,

Please ping the group if you feel led.


19 posted on 06/03/2009 5:05:16 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: BGHater

The article stated that the image in your post was “manufactured”. Translation: It’s a simulation.


20 posted on 06/03/2009 5:24:18 PM PDT by balls
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