"Dancing orange lights" UFO - Middletown, Ohio (10/18/2015)

originally posted by: _BoneZ_
So, this to me was looking more and more like parachute jumpers with pyrotechnics, which caused me to do a little more research.

Middletown, Ohio has a parachute team called Team Fastrax. And they just so happen to do nighttime pyrotechnics as well.

Here's a brief video showing a few moments of their nighttime pyrotechnics:

I'm going to go with Team Fastrax doing some nighttime practicing, or they were doing a show somewhere.

Oh yeah it looks just like that.. not

originally posted by: Ahabstar
They were skydivers doing a night dive. This would have been Sat Oct 17 around 11pm.

Yes, I was outside watching them. Yes, I saw the lights on the plane that they jumped out of. The video doesn't show it but they actually fired off fireworks after some maneuvers. Sorry, I didn't shoot any video. Sorry you guys missed seeing it live because it was pretty cool. To top it off, a friend was celebrating her 40th that night so we said Happy Birthday Joni.

Thanks for the confirmation. I thought I could hear some fireworks sounds in the video, so the combination of skydivers and fireworks makes more sense than either explanation alone.

a reply to: Ahabstar

thank you.
at least I feel a little vindicated.

a reply to: Arbitrageur



It may be different from this though, because:

- they are so numerous,
- they criss-cross each other from opposite directions
- move horizontally
- consecutively eject from a confined area (as opposed to a plane dropping guys with flares, that would be more spread out).

I guess its not impossible if you coordinated it.

a reply to: nOraKat
These parachutists are pretty close together, so you're right, it's definitely not impossible, just need a few more of them:

Skydivers On Fire! Mistaken For UFOs On 4th of July Stadium Jump!

You can see criss-crossing in this video and don't forget you only see a 2D representation of something happening in 3D so the criss-crossing visible in a video can still have significant separation in the depth dimension.

This is an interesting comment from the Middletown skydiving team (site of the OP video):

teamfastrax.com...

Typically the internet is buzzing with UFO sightings after we jump and the news media is reporting on it

For me it's like couple of rotating lanterns tied up together hah