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'Fireball' UFOs sighted in South Africa

By T.K. Randall
November 4, 2011 · Comment icon 13 comments

Image Credit: Riaan van Greuning
Skygazers in Free State remain puzzled over sightings of a number of strange fireballs in the sky.
Riaan van Greuning took photographs on Sunday night of five of the objects flying low over Harrismith. "It was cloudy and the phenomenon was fairly low in the sky," he said. "Five of these objects appeared in a matter of 20 minutes." The objects moved in a southerly direction and made no audible sound. "I do not know what it was. Something like this makes one think. All I know is that it was not a helicopter's searchlight."
The appearance of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in the Free State have left skygazers puzzled as they try to fathom what they are looking at.


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Comment icon #4 Posted by 27vet 13 years ago
I know that town fairly well, I don't imagine Chinese lanterns being a hobby there, but one never knows. The danger of Chinese lanterns is that they could cause wild fires during the dry season ( May - Aug/Sept) so it would be irresponsible to release them before the first substantial rains. As for the professor's comment, he probably didn't want to enter into a controversial conversation.
Comment icon #5 Posted by AsatroGubbe 13 years ago
@27vet i have to agree with you. one signiture is the light from a "ufo" is a scintillating light. from the ionization on the skin of the craft.
Comment icon #6 Posted by bpl 13 years ago
after all these years of ufo sightings, no one has really seen one. it's always a flash of light or something. how come they never land
Comment icon #7 Posted by bpl 13 years ago
after all these years of ufo sightings, no one has really seen one. it's always a flash of light or something. how come they never land
Comment icon #8 Posted by PHFATY 13 years ago
These are orbs which have been seen worldwide for centuries. They are inter-dimensional light beings with no bodies. They are known to be the natural enemies of the reptilians who invaded planet Earth a long time ago.
Comment icon #9 Posted by Wearer of Hats 13 years ago
These are orbs which have been seen worldwide for centuries. They are inter-dimensional light beings with no bodies. They are known to be the natural enemies of the reptilians who invaded planet Earth a long time ago. Known by whom?
Comment icon #10 Posted by ~C.S.M~ 13 years ago
BPL: flashes of light in the sky, actually falls into the category of UFO ;-)
Comment icon #11 Posted by Grey14 13 years ago
These look like flares to me. You can even see the smoke above them being illuminated by the light. Nothing special here.
Comment icon #12 Posted by Marcoo-coo 13 years ago
I saw the same thing, only I live in Benoni,Gauteng (South Africa). I was driving to a friends house on the 17th of September 2011 at about 23:00pm. I was driving in my car but I managed to take a photo of one of the crafts, the pic I took came out crap (and no its not one of those hoax photos that are always blurred, distorted or out of range) but what I saw was 2 orange crafts moving without sound in a straight line after each other. They were very large and low,too low to be planes, they were definitely not airplanes (i have seen airplanes before) nor were they satellites or chinese lantern... [More]
Comment icon #13 Posted by Cpl599 13 years ago
Unless aliens are piloting floating fireballs, this was more than likely a very terrestrial phenomenon.
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