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Hi, All.

My wife was 'aving a fag and spotted several fast-moving orange lights above Gloucester..lasted about 10 mins. Anyone else see this?

there were about 10 in the time I was watching


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 9:27 pm
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Triffards?


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 9:29 pm
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I was going to say something like "don't watch it, you'll go blind, and then the man-eating plants will get you"

but Drac kind of beat me to it 🙁


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 9:30 pm
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Planes on way to Fairford air show?


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 9:31 pm
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no noise at all though..and went across the horizon in 10- 20 secs.
By comparison, a normal passenger plane takes 10 times as long and you can hear it.

very bright orange, too.


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 9:33 pm
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they be stealth planes?


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 9:34 pm
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they be stealth planes

crap stealth technology..I saw them and my glasses are knackered from sandy Glyncorrwg last week 🙂


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 9:38 pm
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Clangers?


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 9:48 pm
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ah, but you didn't [i]hear[/i] them, did you?

If you weren't looking right at them they could've sneaked right up on you. Pretty stealthy I reckon. I bet if your eyes only saw in radar wavelengths, you wouldn't have seen them 😉


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 9:58 pm
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Damn these superhero eyes. When can I live a normal life?


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 10:01 pm
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saw some good ones in the clear skies of the alps

individual meteor streaks last a second max


 
Posted : 17/07/2009 10:03 pm
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Space shuttle/ISS are orbiting at the moment...


 
Posted : 18/07/2009 12:41 pm
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ISS is always orbiting...


 
Posted : 18/07/2009 12:50 pm
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A common UFO are novelty hot air ballons. Bright orange (lit up by flame), silent and can appear quite fast moving as much closer than you think. Usually part of some celebration and many are seen in a short space of time.
HTH.
Paul


 
Posted : 18/07/2009 2:17 pm