I can almost always debunk these videos within 5 seconds.. That's not the case with this one.. Lets just say "I want to believe"

Good find op.. S&F

Baffles experts??? Like who?? Experts my a***

Its a chinese lantern, it doesnt take an "expert" to work that out.

In my amateur opinion it moved at at least hundred(s) of miles an hour.
Lantern? didn't even cross my mind dude.

Honestly it was one of the more interesting videos I've watched recently.

saf+

I like the accent.

Looks completely like the type of chinese lanterns I released over the 4th of July. The ones I released were very large (approx 5'x5'). I released them over a large lake in northern Michigan, and away from the city lights, as these guys in video are. The lanterns were amazing! they went extremely high approx 500', and for miles, and the light given off was incredibly visible for miles! It looked IDENTICAL to this video. I wouldn't be surprised if there were reports of ufo's after my launches. I am convinced this is a chinese lantern.

Every time i see a blinking light like this,i think about some altenative current.

I want to say satellite as it's coloration would be consistent with reflected sunlight off the satellite body and solar panels.

If this were a satellite, however, it seems to move too slow.

In such case I'm then prone to feel this is a very distant plane experiencing the same effect consistent with satellites where the plane is in direct sunlight and reflecting that golden morning dawn light where the observers on the ground are still in pre-dawn shadow.

The videographer obviously doesn't know anything as he goes straight from star to UFO in his guessing without any vocal consideration of satellites, or distant airplanes reflecting dawn light.

Please take extra special notice that I have not proposed anything regarding any kind of lanterns.

Originally posted by Druscilla

I want to say satellite as it's coloration would be consistent with reflected sunlight off the satellite body and solar panels.

If this were a satellite, however, it seems to move too slow.

In such case I'm then prone to feel this is a very distant plane experiencing the same effect consistent with satellites where the plane is in direct sunlight and reflecting that golden morning dawn light where the observers on the ground are still in pre-dawn shadow.

The videographer obviously doesn't know anything as he goes straight from star to UFO in his guessing without any vocal consideration of satellites, or distant airplanes reflecting dawn light.

While In leaning towards agreeing with your whole assessment I feel the need to point out and disagree with one aspect of your reply. Don't you think its just a little unfair to say the videographer doesn't know anything because he goes from Star to UFO? The reason I say this is if you think about it the average amateur videographer / citizen in a situation like this after determining its not a star and especially if they are believers in the UFO phenomenon might just be victims of simply getting caught up in the moment? I feel thats the case here. Meaning this is just a snap shot of a moment in their life where they could have just ad easily have went from star to saying something utterly genius... Im guessing that after they came to the initial conclusion that its UFO and showed it to some like minded friends that just further helped push the matter further into the UFO side of the argument. I think it just as easily could have gone the other way had they initially said its most likely a plane with a glare from the rising / setting sun etc, etc... Just saying.

-Anathema

I don't understand why everybody always jumps to "chinese lantern".

I've been alive for 31 years (so far, knock on wood ) and I've never seen a chinese lantern (I live in Australia), nor have I ever made one, lit one, used one in celebrations, or anything along those lines.

I can understand people using them in celebrations like the US independence day or whatever, but they're certainly nowhere near as common as they'd have to be to be constantly mistaken for UFO's...

...or am I completely wrong on this?

YAQC

(yet another quad copter)