Something that bothers me is that I read a lot of testimonials that claim "there is no way the orange lights I saw were lanterns or balloons". But
whenever someone manages to capture these things on video, they always seem to be able to pass for lanterns or balloons.
It might have been six or seven years ago now that they stopped showing up over my town. Sometimes the local radio stations or newspapers would have
a blurb about the "mysterious lights". For at least two years, and nearly every single night, orange lights would appear over my town, sometimes
singly, and sometimes in groups. When they did appear in groups they often seemed to move in a way, it seemed to me, that suggested that they might
be physically attached to each other, though they were separated by a significant angular distance in the sky. Their movement varied on different
nights. Sometimes they appeared to hover, and other times they appeared to move quite swiftly. Sometimes their movement was smooth and other times
it was erratic. They were always silent. As for their appearance, they seemed to range in color from muted yellow, to bright red, and their
apparent size ranged from a pinpoint, such as a star, to something that more resembled a planet or a small moon. Sometimes they shone as a solid
light, sometimes they appeared to pulse, and other times to flicker. Occasionally they could be seen to flash, a brilliant whitish-blue. What really
impressed some witnesses, was when they appeared to drop, or birth, smaller luminous objects that would fall toward the earth.
After some time, if they hadn't drifted out of view, they would always vanish without a trace.
Except on one occasion! On one occasion one of the orbs descended from the sky. And just before I watched that one crash into a swamp, into a spot
no more than 50 feet from where I was standing, I could see the thing clearly for the first time. There was no doubt about it, the mysterious orbs
over my city were definitely some kind of lantern or balloon. Who knows what motivated someone to release them almost nightly and for two years at
I had already reached the conclusion that they were probably balloons after having seen them in the skies on many occasions. If I had seen them only
once or twice, I don't know what I would have made of them. Their particular qualities on those particular nights, might have seemed very much
outside of the characteristics of balloons or lanterns. At least as far as I had known those characteristics to be.
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