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Orange flamelike objects floating in sky
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1202985:MV84MjQ0OTNfMjEzNjgzMjdfRjY3NTIzOTU=] Chinese lanterns are cool. Somebody let a bunch of them go one night in the summer and I watched one slowly sink down like a ghost after its fire went out. I ran over to the empty parking lot and scooped it up. It was a big white nonflammable sack, with a wire hoop around the bottom with wires attached to sides of the hoop forming a crosshair, with a little place for burning material in the center of the crosshair. I kept it in the garage for several years, and then the other day I took it out and wrapped some old rag around the center of the crosshair, doused it with kerosene (jet fuel), lit it, and the thing filled up with hot air and went floating away like a big white ghost, with black smoke trailing it. [/quote]
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I just happened to see two of these this evening around 9:43 pm. I had my convertible top down and I saw this flame in the sky. At first I didn't know what to think, then I said "maybe its a balloon flight, but I turned down the music in my car and nothing but silence, the flame stayed the same height and just kept drifting from Northwest to Southeast. It started to float/drift faster once it moved over my car. I thought "maybe a kid caught a bag on fire and it was floating in the air", but that would have burned up by now. It drifted farther and farther Southeast into the sky very high. It wasn't a falling star because it didn't fall to the earth. Later I saw a second one from my front yard about 20 minutes later. It was the same size and moved at the same pace as the first one I saw. It was a flame moving in the sky with nothing attached to it. I have planes that pass over my home all the time moving Southwest to Northeast with red and green blinking lights and Noise! The orange flame I saw had NO NOISE complete silence. It had no flashing lights, it literally looked like a flame from a fire that has a steady burn. What are these things? has anyone else seen them before. Today is June 24th and this occured in Plainfield, IL.
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