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Originally posted by Zcustosmorum
Interesting encounter with a UFO confirmed both by pilots and the tower. If neither of these people know what it is then I guess we're none the wiser.
Chinese lanterns come in many sizes. Some of them are huge, though he may not know that. I'm not saying it was a chinese lantern, but just that it's not logical to rule it out, especially if it's just sitting there, like a Chinese lantern, and then winks out like a Chinese lantern. This video shows some big sky lanterns: YouTube: Les ballons pirates de Rio (Portuguese/French)
Originally posted by WeirdOldDude
The translation of the dutch part:
So it looked like a chinese...euh....candle
Euh, yes, well, but the light beam was way to large for that. I just don't know, but euh...
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Chinese lanterns come in many sizes. Some of them are huge, though he may not know that. I'm not saying it was a chinese lantern, but just that it's not logical to rule it out, especially if it's just sitting there, like a Chinese lantern, and then winks out like a Chinese lantern. This video shows some big sky lanterns: YouTube: Les ballons pirates de Rio (Portuguese/French)
Originally posted by WeirdOldDude
The translation of the dutch part:
So it looked like a chinese...euh....candle
Euh, yes, well, but the light beam was way to large for that. I just don't know, but euh...
Also, people can't estimate sizes of unknown objects in the sky; This "UFO" made by Linn Murphy was reported by some witnesses to be larger than a football field:
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Obviously it's not. But even trained witnesses can only estimate the size or distance of known objects, not of unknown objects. That's something researchers know that the people witnessing a UFO may not know.
This is probably one of the most pathetic UFO reports I've ever seen. There's no date or time of the incident. How much more basic can the information be than that?
Originally posted by Zcustosmorum
reply to post by Arbitrageur
I've trawled the net trying to find date/time, but to no avail, best I can do is say it's at least 2 years old.