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adele78
14 yrs ago
I've just talked to a friend who was driving her husband to the airport on saturday night from south Lantau. Half way up the hill, they saw blue, red and white lights over the water off Cheung Sha/Tong Fuk area that were not like anything you would see on an aircraft of any sort. They got out of the car and watched it for 10 minutes and it made no sound. The lights scrolled around and went closer and farther apart and the object (not itself distinguishable) both stayed stock still in its position and moved rapidly and smoothly at other times. They are both intelligent and sensible people and the hubby is a pilot and very familiar with aircraft lights and has never seen anything like that before.
I really don't think they're BSing me. I'm excited and curious and a little jealous as I'd love to see something like that sometime.
Anyone else seen anything?
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It could be:
- Clouds reflecting light from the water.
- Several helicopters far away.
- People messing around with remote controlled aircraft.
- A whole bunch of natural phenomena or other human activities.
- Over water at night it is very hard to see if something is on the surface or not. Could be fishing boats.
The fact that there was no sound could just mean the object was far away.
It could also be aliens, but that would be my last possible explanation once everything else has been explained away. Jumping to the extra terrestrial hypothesis without first checking everything else violates Occam's Razor. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
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It was a weather balloon surrounded by swamp gas
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190k
14 yrs ago
fishermen use different coloured lights to mark thier fish pot markers at night and they can be seen from far away on a calm clear night. Also I believe Saturday was a new moon so no light pollution. Could also be reflections from Wailingding Island. Also on a new moon blue phospheresence is common here
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Actually I see them all the time in Tai Po. It sounds like kites with LED lights on to me. when i first saw these lights flying in the sky i thought exactely the same thing.
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Tune
14 yrs ago
On the other hand, 'Occam's Razor' is merely a grounding set of principles based on a biased and ever changing perception of the universe.
However, in the words of the late Carl Sagan, 'Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence'.
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You are correct Tune. And I appreciate the Sagan quote. "The Demon-Haunted World" should be required reading.
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Thanks for the replies folks. It was above the horizon line so not a sea level light and I can't think why anyone would be flying a kite out over the sea at 11pm!
I have no real evidence of it being anything from another world, but my friend is pretty convinced it's not from this one!
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@adele78 Why does your friend conclude it is extraterrestrial in origin? This would seem to be the most unlikely explanation.
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Hugie
14 yrs ago
seacap! you made my day! very funny! But joking apart, I have seen weird lights over fanling in the past few months. i kept it to myself until the locals started talking about it too! What I saw was a bright light in the sky that was followed by a massive cream coloured light coming up from the ground! I just stood there on my roof with my gob open! I quickly finished my last San mig and decided it was way past my bed time!
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Tune
14 yrs ago
I often see Chinese lanterns in the skies over the NTs.
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190k
14 yrs ago
bright lights are the lasers shot out from buildings in SZ that illuminate the clouds and rain
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Hugie
14 yrs ago
@ 190K, could be, but I see them all the time as I live near china, this was different!
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Besides all of the above explanations the lights could be from experimental military aircraft as well.
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Hi,
My wife and I saw these lights when I went on our roof ( we live in Cheung Sha), they were there when we got up there at 9pm and stayed perfectly still for just over 2 hrs, we have photos and videos of it, we also watched it leave. Just for the record, we have a telescope and could not make out any body or anything shiny in the middle, it was a sort of triangle shape but the third line not meeting. I will try posting videos of it on here if I can.
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Kaharris. Please keep us posted.
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When many people claimed they'd seen an alien spacecraft/s in the form of unusal lights hovering over San Francisco recently, a noted astrophysics specialist (or whatever they're called) drily commented that superior beings from other galaxies who manage to reach Earth would hardly have the need for such old technology as headlamps as we know them.
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kaharris,
I live in CS too. The time frame is right if we're talking about the same night! I'd love to see the footage. I'll PM you my email.
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came across this article.. read it with a grain of salt.
large circular disk found by Wreckage hunters on the bottom of the ocean.
http://gizmodo.com/5826491/is-this-a-ufo-on-the-bottom-of-the-ocean?tag=top
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This is an interesting link, if it does'nt work, google disclosure project
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vyVe-6YdUk
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We saw the UFO over South Lantau on 2nd July 2011... well, something we cannot explain.... It appeared over Pui O, San Shek Wan or Upper Cheung Sha area not far from us, probably between 2-5 mins drive. There was very little to no wind, It was too high and too big to be a balloon, and its not possible to fly a R/C helicopter or those lit up R/C kites non-stop for over 2 hours at that height and almost still in the sky..... Any other suggestions? We also ruled out lasers pointing to the sky, and whatever it is, it was much clearer and defined in real life than the camera shows... We're taking suggestions as to what it might be....
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And this one was extra interesting.... as another light appeared. This flew past the object way faster than any commercial airline and we see heaps since the airport is not too far from us. It was either another UFO or a MIG or something doing a recon.
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