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i agree, but ive seen them with my own eyes. back in the fall of 2013 outside of winnipegs east perimeter highway. some friends and i were on our way to see a movie at the silver city theatre in st vital. going down the 207 between highway 15 and the number 1 heading south. looking out the window of the vehicle on the passsenger side, high in the air over the river near the hydro power station we saw between 9 and 12 bright orbs hung in a pattern like a side ways rounded triangle, pointing south. then one by one from the top down, they either shrunk into the distance at incredible speed, or phased out entirely. i tried taking pictures but i had a shitty phone at the time so it just came out black. no stars or anything.
years later, i looked online for similar sighting, a group of people form the opposite side of the river saw the same exact thing and reported it. then i saw videos of similar orbs flying over the city, and over the red river in different locations over the years. same big red or white orbs, like fire balls in the sky.
dont know what the hell they were, so by definition they were a UFO or UAP.
crazy shit.
Probably Chinese Lanterns, released at a wedding.
I've seen it done at weddings, and as they all float away, I always think "There are going to be a lot of UFO reports tonight."
absolutely was not that, they were perfectly stationary, didnt move, each were about the size of large suv at that distance, and when they dissappeared it was in perfect sequence from the top down. and it was like they shrunk into the distance at extreme speed.
i know what you mean though. ive seen those videos. this was not that. they did not look similar in the slightest, nor physically act the same way. another thing is that those lanterns are outright illegal here due to wild fire potential, you can get fined and serve a prison sentence if you light them up in the city limits. people simply dont do that here.
again, though, these did not look, or act, whatsoever like sky lanterns.
Fair enough, you saw it, I didn't.
But I have seen MANY videos of "UFOs" that are obviously Chinese Lanterns, especially when they start talking about a triangular shape. If you release anything in threes, if they don't form a line, they will form some sort of a triangle. If they are in a line, its a line of UFOs. If they form in a triangle, than it becomes a giant triangular UFO.
again, i get your point, however, these were 100% not sky lanters. they were far too large, too bright, and perfectly stationary in a perfect sideways triangle pattern with rounded edges, they did not stray from the pattern whatsoever until they all went out in sequence, top to bottom, right to left.
i wish you could have seen it, then you would drop the sky lantern bit. it simply was not that, if it was anything man made, it was some kind of swarm of very large military drones, with some sort of extremely bright holographic tech on them to make them appear like giant glowing orbs for some reason, but again this was 2013, and canada doesnt and didnt have a quadcopter drone program that would allow them to hover in place like that.
occams razor does not apply to this sighting. since then ive compared images, videos, etc looking for similarities, only things that came close were the additional sitings over the red river and north end of the city in the years before and since, different formations and they actually moved around, flying over the river in twos, and over the north end, back and forth as individual orbs. then there were also the orange orbs specifically in new jersey, not the "drones" but the orange orbs that seemed to get pulled from the internet within hours of being posted, those were very similar in size, shape, and brightness.
i get you really want these to be explained away as lanterns. im sorry, but they were not, lol.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to prove that YOURE sighting were Lanterns, you were pretty specific in your first response to me, and I accepted that.
I was just reminding other readers that a lot of UFO sightings these days are easily explainable by lanterns, but I didn't mean for that to refer to your situation. Sorry if I didn't make that clear.
I wish I could've seen what you've seen!