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I saw one of these once; it was a very strange phenomenon, with the paper lantern tipped over and slowly floating down, dark grey against a misty sky, looking for all the world like a sky jellyfish.

They should be banned completely alongside helium balloons/releases, it's literally littering and very dangerous when half your countryside is a tinderbox

If these indeed were Chinese lanterns, whoever launched them acted very irresponsibly in the light of ongoing drought in England and Wales

However, it is easy to demonstrate that these lights do not, in fact, maintain the same formation over time as they pass across the sky. Here are images taken from different times in your clip, and it is easy to see that they do change their...

They look just like Chinese lanterns, and that can be hard to prove because they don't transmit their location like planes do.

I added a Fisheye view. Camera/FOV/Fisheye https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=1/DAntonio%20all_sky%20streak/20260827_121840.js

Hang on @Kyle Ferriter the date on your ADSB playbacks is out by a day - the time should be 04:19UTC on 2024-07-02, not Jul 03. But funnily enough there was another KC135 at the right date & time following a very similar flight path...

I dont think thats the plane. The flight path of the UFO against the stars in the video doesn't match the sitrec replay, even with taking in the fisheye lens distortion. It is close as it passes through Ursa Major but the turn isn't significant...

This is what a fisheye lens can do with straight lines. I think it likely that a plane made ONE change in direction during the course of its flight (not unusual if lining up for a landing site), but the rest can be attributed to the lens.

Codex came up with an estimate of ~1.93 deg/s by pulling data from SIMBAD and based on the rough assumption that it traversed the exact angular distance from Phecda to Edasich. Which is just an approximation. That works out to these linear...

Looking at the UFO as it flies past and away from the camera, flashing lights can just be seen in the long exposure streaks.... Red strobe as it is close to overhead, white strobe as it flies into the distance...

Matching the time I get: https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=1/DAntonio all_sky streak/20260827_165454.js Not a match for either plane, but I think it certainly shows that the motion in the video is not unlike a plane. I'd like to get...

Agreed. I guess I wasn't clear in my post. I was referring to the Night Lights Events that Todd had posted. People doing illegal things is indeed a thing. A large number of people participating in an illegal, and highly visible, activity seems a...

Geez. I’d move out of there if I could.

Illegal sky lanterns are pretty weak. One New Year's Eve at midnight in the central L.A. area... Sitting in a friend's livingroom. The gunfire was so intense, I put a stainless steel bowl over my head... only half joking. Not even half.