Unmanned Hot Air Balloon Over Belfast Ireland (Chinese Lantern)

Date: October 24, 2010

Time: Approx: 7:30 p.m.

As reported last night 23rd October 2 sightings of a then strange object in the sky over Belfast, coming out of the west and altering course overhead to a southerly direction before disappearing. Tonight 24th October, a similar object was observed moving from north to south. At ground level there did not seem to be any noticeable wind, yet it seemed to moving at a fair rate of knots.

This time I was able to view it through a pair of 10x50 binos. What I saw was an unmanned Hot Air balloon. I could see the burner.

The time was about 19.30 and it would be hard to give a size as I could not estimate its altitude, but it was a very bright object in the dark sky which appeared to be much higher than aircraft using our local airports.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

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Blewitt Springs, South Australia A Round Balloon Like Object

Posted: May 23, 2009

Date: April 19, 2009
Time: 9:00 p.m.

Number of witnesses: 3 (Plus)
Number of objects: 3
Shape of objects: Round, balloon like.
Weather Conditions: Very Clear.

Description: My son was staying at a friends, when he rang telling me and my husband about some strange lights he was seeing outside. His phone went dead, I tried to ring back, but it just went to the message bank. So I tried his friends land line, that did not connect.

We were at a friends, so we decided to go for a drive and see if we could see anything. I spoke to my son, and he was ok. But we continued to have a look. When we arrived we saw some strange lights dancing high in the sky, they were a soft orange-apricot colour. They moved very fast, then disappeared. After some long minutes we noticed the flashing of police lights, so we went and had a look at where they were headed. It seemed the police car was heading in the same direction that we last saw these strange lights go.

None of us knew what we had really seen. We stayed out for another hour looking for any more lights. We then went home and had some coffee, nervous and shaking after what we had seen.

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Cheltenham - North Of Cheltenham Racecourse Round Balloon Shaped Objects

Posted: July 1, 2008

Date: June 28, 2008
Time: 10:00 p.m.

Number of witnesses: 4
Number of objects: 6
Shape of objects: Round like balloon shapes, with orange in them, they just looked like lit up balloons and flimsy but moved very quickly.
Weather Conditions: Dry, windy, cloudy, some clear skies.

Description: Round like balloon shapes, looked like they had flame inside a balloon, they were all orange, they came from the south and went north in a sweeping formation, they were too fast for aircraft and no noise, they followed each other and sweeped past us over Cleeve hill, my wife, daughter and mother-in-law, thought it was some kind of joke, but it lasted about 1/2 minutes and it got more scary as they all followed each other, I can only think the color was like looking at a hot air balloon when it fires the gas, but they were quite small and glowing, I have never seen anything like this nor can think of anything that it/they may have been. Does anybody have a rationale explanation, and more importantly it was witnessed by several members of the family.

TV/Radio: No.

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