Long Eaton, Nottingham-25th/26th July 2009
Location of Sighting: Long Eaton
Date of Sighting: Saturday/Sunday 25th/26th July 2009
Time: 11.50pm-1.10am
Witness Name: David Thompson
Witness Statement: Saturday/Sunday 25th/26th July
After a night out we arrived back in Long Eaton & dropped my daughter At her house at about 11.50pm. She signalled to us to get out of the car and my wife & I looked to where she was pointing and saw about 4, what can only be described as fireballs travelling at a lowish altitude in a north easterly direction. They were followed by another 2. We watched them disappear from view and went to our house a couple of streets away. On the journey we saw at least 2 more of the objects. On arriving home, we got out our binoculars and after a time at about 12.15 another one came past over head. Then about 12.30 the final one? (We watched for about another 40 minutes but saw no others.)
Although there was a certain amount of breeze, the objects were flying faster than that. I don't know how big Chinese lanterns are, but these must have been the size of a hot air balloon and surely being aflame as they appeared to be, would have burned themselves out in a short space of time. There must have been lots of people who witnessed this, and although we are in close proximity to EM airport, I do not think it was aeroplanes or other normal flying craft. I would like to here what others make of it. In my excitement I never thought to use my mobile phone to capture the images. Sorry.
Source: Direct request on UK-UFO
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August 6th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Hi there have a look at the website http://www.flyingchineselanterns.com there is a mini film showing people setting off the hugh lanterns at night. is this what you saw?
August 21st, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Hi
Yes this will actually be Lanterns as i live in sawley just near to the whitehouse restaurant ,Where that saturday evening they had a wedding reception!
Near to the Church around the same time they set of about 10 maybe more lanterns ;0)
The wind was taking them over Long Eaton area as one lantern actually got caught in a tree by sawley church.{the fire brigade were then actually called}
Hope this solves the mysterious mystery of these lights in the sky!!!
March 15th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
If you saw them low they are most probably Chinese Lanterns, the can go 1 mile into the sky, and are actually fairly big, what makes them look like UFO’s is because the wind drifts them off in the same direction and same line so it looks like something out of a Speilberg film. For more information have a look at the blog on (url)http://www.chineselanterns-ukc.co.uk(url\)