Did the other witnesses have minor earthquakes in their region too?

Great pictures, thanks for sharing.

After discussing my sighting with some local 'ufologists' I came to the conclusion that what I saw was indeed sky lanterns.

That is a safe bet, 99% of all UFO images are easily explained by balloons, clouds, sky Lanterns, etc. But we should give more weight to eye witness testimony, images can be altered, and people can lie, but when you have a clear trail to the witnesses including image based evidence from the same group, it becomes more believable. Multiple witness from other locations seem to have similar accounts. The description of the objects movement and trajectory makes sky lanterns less likely, the movement appears to be powered and not wind borne. When some of the camera images are flipped or animated, a definite motion along a path can be observed, the bright orange objects can be seen to have a tumbling motion of their own. The objects were described as having come in at a high speed and then slowing and bunching up closer together as if engaging in a rendezvous. IMG_0344 is the clearest and it shows many of the objects following a common flight path. Sky Lanterns can have a similar appearance to these objects, but I do not think that they could duplicate the motions seen.

The description of the objects movement and trajectory makes sky lanterns less likely, the movement appears to be powered and not wind borne.

The formation I saw was moving at a steady pace although there was absolutely no wind at ground level. I was told though that wind speed can change dramatically with altitude, which would explain (at least to me) the objects appearing to be self powered.

Sky lanterns are often ruled out as a possible explanation because they appear to be moving too fast. Having seen orbs/lights/lanterns myself I know that it is absolutely impossible to correctly estimate their distance/altitude in the first place. Unless the witness got a reference point, which I did because on the night of my sighting it had rained a lot and the cloud cover was very dense and low. Had there not been a cloud cover I would have estimated the lights to be at an altitude of at least a couple of kilometers, appearing to travel a lot faster than they actually did. Due to the clouds I could tell that the objects were indeed rather close to me, probably no more than two hundred meters away - thus travelling at a speed a sky lantern would have easily been capable of.

Just another factor that might lead to false interpretation.

When some of the camera images are flipped or animated, a definite motion along a path can be observed, the bright orange objects can be seen to have a tumbling motion of their own.

I think that a definite motion along a path is what points to sky lanterns the most. After all wind blows only in one direction at a time. I've read plenty of eye witness accounts, and not a single time did one light leave the formation or travel along a different path from the others.

In the end it boils down to what one wants to believe. I believe that a rational approach to the whole issue is to be favoured. If I can chose between sky lanterns, space ships, ball lightning and swamp gas, I pick whats by far the most likely.

So please research reliable sources before beliving such a suspicious person.

I was quoting an article about Werner Walter, therefor my source was Der Spiegel, which I regard as very reliable.

Personally I dont care much about Mr.Walter or his background. I quoted the article about him because he keeps a UFO hotline and should be best informed about the quantity of this particular sort of sightings. Apart from that he has nothing to do with what I believe in. Which happens to be logic. If thats Mr Walters approach as well - fine with me.

So "Der Spiegel" is reliable to you yes?

Yes.

Well that is your opinion.

Thats why I said it.

And because the "to you" reliable source "Der Spiegel" comments on Werner Walter he is automatically reliable too right?

He is obviously right on the matter I quoted, as he states his personal opinion.

And you still belive in free press without censorship. Right?

Depends on who owns the press.

"Conspiracy" and "Propaganda" or "Desinformation" are surly esoterical products. Right?

Depends on the context. If its "Ufos over Germany", they are of no relevance in this country.

Well I can not belive those objects I have seen with my eyes were lanterns, sorry no way...

The question is, can you absolutely rule out they were not?

I have not seen them in a height of 3.000 meters.

Neither did I. But as I said, I doubt its possible to correctly estimate the altitude of a dot in the sky.

Can you imagine something that fly´s with a kind of propulsion system in a height round about 100-200 meters would look similar to lanterns which just have termal wind conditions to move in the air?

Well, I admit that on first sight these things didnt look like what I expected sky lanterns to look like. And I admit my first thought was "OMG! UFOS!!". But later I realized I couldnt deny the possibilty of them being sky lanterns. Again, if I can chose between remotely controlled, self propelled spy drones from outta space and floating lanterns from outta Aldi as an explanation, I (have to) chose the lanterns. I know thats not cool. But its rational.

No "Werner Walter" and no "Der Spiegel" can try to make any suggestions about that to me.

You believe that Der Spiegel and its agent Werner Walter are covering up a major UFO flap. Thats your right. I'm not representing the interests of these institutions, I just quoted them.

If you "swallow" that it´s your thing...

Agreeing to rational arguments isnt 'swallowing'. You should try it.

But then I´m sorry for you.

Thanks mate.

I may have seen lanterns that fly as fast as jets and emit no sound out of Aldi . I prefeer Occam's Razor on this one and go for the UFO's, because that is the simpler and more rational explanation!

Why? Because, every sky lantern with that kind of speed would have been torn into bits within Miliseconds! Besides, at the end ALL of the UFO's also suddenly came to a stop and then flew on. Very unlikely Aldi produces sky lanterns with such technology .

I respect however the opion of the debunkers here, I can however assure that if everyone had seen what me, my neighbours and my friends had seen, then ALL of you would believe in UFO's!

I've seen these balls of light aswell. I have a video on here of them,although my video skills aren't up to much. I don't think they're craft,I think they're allert balls of energy. A higher life form,the ones that the kooks (sorry,dramatic effect) say are guarding us from the greys prehaps. maybe they're the ones behind this awakening that's going on. Who knows,all I know is that they're being seen all over the world,and they ain't no sky lanterns.

I might have posted this before but THIS IS one of those red orbs that people say are chinese lanterns.Ha!

This was a red/orange ball of light moving slowly to the left over next doors garden.It was about 6 foot diameter and was just 1 of about 100 that my son and I watched pass low and slow over the rooftops in January
Why the photo came out like this I dont know but make your own minds up as to what it is.

When you report UFOs and you are sure, hand them a picture
of Tesla and indicate he invented the UFO and wish to report
illegal use of his energy devices.

Once in public domain these parts were classified by the US Government.

And 9 Objects flying very close together in a formation of this:

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O O O O O

Looks a lot like the formation I've seen.

Look I would be really fine with that if they were lanterns for sure.
I dont´like the thought those were real UFO´s because I felt really bad after the sighting about this.

Yeah, I understand. I felt exactly the same way. Took me a while to calm down enough to analyze what I had seen.

with constand speed and direction for everybody clear to see

And thats exactly whats pointing to lanterns. If I had seen just one light move out of formation, I'd gladly have called the cops, the military and the men in black. But I didnt, and neither did you. In fact no one did.

But if you see something else whats that then??? Banana boats?

Well, I dont know what a banana boat is. The funny thing is that once you're ready to accept a paranormal explanation, banana boats are no more silly than protective higher life forms, reptilian shapeshifters and secret alien councils.
So yes, if they were no lanterns they might as well have been banana boats.

Look, I dont want to force my opinion on you. I'm just stating what I believe in, and that may of course be wrong. I hope that you can find a satisfactory explanation to your sighting.