Chinese lanterns cause UFO scare

I'm still amazed that it's legal to send flaming uncontrolled objects flying hundreds of feet into the air.

I do not think it is legal (not in most area's)...and the next "moron" that thinks a "Chinese lantern" looks or behaves "anything" like a UFO....should be immediately placed in a Mental Institute. I am so sick and tired of people who are trying to....or unintentionally (stupidity) to make a mockery out of a serious issue. And to the "morons" who think we are alone in this endless expanse of universe...put them in the same Mental Institute, along with them. Please stop reporting on what these insane/stupid/inbred/disinformers or (whatever) people are seeing. You may as well interview a "crack a... [More]

I'll admit, seems like these people overexaggerated and were sadly mistaken; WOW chinese lanterns travelling 70 mph should explain the other lanterns travelling thousands of mph, making 90 degree turns; oh but unfortunately it doesn't. Or hundreds of near Earth-sized lanterns-makes me laugh- appearing/dissapearing around our sun, or lanterns seen by astronauts flying in, out of and around Earth. New Age common sense debunks it easily and fairly; and true researchers not scared of being judged and critisized. One mistake doesn't make them all a mistake. Chill.

Wow Terra,you got a bit carried away in your blog.. However I do agree with you.So some people see something they do not understand,usually lights and rarely a solid object which can be explained.WOW we are being invaded,let me become famous etc. etc.The papers take it up to fill some press space.If it is in the papers it must be true.LOL

I do not think it is legal (not in most area's)...and the next "moron" that thinks a "Chinese lantern" looks or behaves "anything" like a UFO....should be immediately placed in a Mental Institute. But people who believe that aliens beings managed to travel the vast space just to visit our planet for vacations while trying to hide from us by using blinding-lighted spacecrafts and moving like they defying physics but at the same point they secretly cooperate with USA government that never went to moon but went to the moon and found aliens that now hides in a non-existing but existing area that n... [More]

I've seen a few of these flying over my neighbourhood at night. The other night I was sitting down watching TV and I couldn't be bothered shutting my living room curtains. I glanced out of the window and saw an orange light in the sky. I knew straight away it was a Chinese lantern because I've seen them before. But when I first saw one flying over the neighbourhood I thought it was a hot air balloon on fire.

But people who believe that aliens beings managed to travel the vast space just to visit our planet for vacations while trying to hide from us by using blinding-lighted spacecrafts and moving like they defying physics but at the same point they secretly cooperate with USA government that never went to moon but went to the moon and found aliens that now hides in a non-existing but existing area that not even a president know its existence but a random internet geek does should be awarded a Nobel or something. Seems logical. It's life Jim, but not as we know it...

I do not think it is legal (not in most area's)...and the next "moron" that thinks a "Chinese lantern" looks or behaves "anything" like a UFO....should be immediately placed in a Mental Institute. So if UFO's look like Chinese lanterns then they can't be UFO's? Sometimes, I think that this "Chinese Lantern" thing can be "nothing other than" a "disinformation" campaign if anything.... Thank You! Anyone else agree? I think it's an "information" campaign. Before I checked out some UFO sites, I had never even heard of Chinese lanterns. After watching some videos, I can see why people are spooked b... [More]

I think to many people are sitting behind tvs and video games and are simply ignorant to the real world around them. We just had a bunch of night time flyers practicing for a football game being mistaken for ufos in Kansas. Simple planes flying in formation. The dumbing down of America. Kind of sad that the serious ufo investigator has to wade through all this idiotic ignorance. Amen to that.

This happened to me and my family a few years ago.