Goodness gracious great ball of fire

Karanfil


Joined: 28/03/2009
Posts: 187

Message Posted:
05/07/2010 14:00

Last night we were sitting outside chatting to our neighbours and we saw a great ball of fire in the sky. We watched it for about five minutes and then it seemed to drop from the sky. I should add that we hadn't been drinking (only Turkish coffee). I just wondered if anyone else saw it and what it was. Perhaps it was a meteorite but I thought they fell quickly and this didn't. It just seemed to hover and then drop.

Vidal


Joined: 14/05/2009
Posts: 867

Message Posted:
05/07/2010 14:08

Might it have been a chinese lantern? They burn in a spectacular fashion and travel some way, then the remainder of the tissue on thin wire and the wax holder just drop.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
05/07/2010 14:09

WHAT time was that because as we were driving back from larnaca i thought i saw bright lights then they seemed to drop, i hadnt had alchlol only water.x

Karanfil


Joined: 28/03/2009
Posts: 187

Message Posted:
05/07/2010 15:46

Lilli

It was about 11.15pm over Girne.

Vidal

I don't think it could have been a Chinese lantern as we watched it for about 5 minutes or so.



Surely someone else must have seen it or are you all tucked up in bed by 11.15?

Woodspeckie


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 2263

Message Posted:
05/07/2010 16:13

Karanfil. We had the St George Chinese Lanters over our village here in the UK on the England world cup weekend, they do hover for about 10 minutes before they start to drop, we thought we were seeing things because we had been drinking but got the binoculars out just to check.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
05/07/2010 16:27

thank you karan that was the time i saw them xx

Karanfil


Joined: 28/03/2009
Posts: 187

Message Posted:
05/07/2010 21:46

Woodspeckie

Karanfil


Joined: 28/03/2009
Posts: 187

Message Posted:
05/07/2010 21:47

Woodspeckie

Thanks for that info. I didn't think Chinese lanterns would last that long. My apologies to Vidal ... you were probably right!

Tatlisu4me


Joined: 26/01/2008
Posts: 436

Message Posted:
05/07/2010 22:03

Karenfil, I saw the same thing last November (A ball of fire over the mountains, and it defo was not a lantern)

scoobydoo


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 2434

Message Posted:
06/07/2010 08:00

There was another strange light in the sky last night over the sea then after about 10 mins it just suddenly vanished. No idea what it was and it didn't seem to be going anywhere.



I was drinking water last night!!

cyprusjoker


Joined: 29/08/2009
Posts: 1107

Message Posted:
06/07/2010 08:35

Maybe it was Jerry lee lewis's great piano in the sky.

girne


Joined: 14/01/2009
Posts: 438

Message Posted:
06/07/2010 10:06

Yes we also saw the bright light in the sky last night just hovering and then disappeared.

Very strange...................................

petsitter22


Joined: 01/12/2009
Posts: 74

Message Posted:
06/07/2010 10:42

funny you should say that, at about 10.30 I say a flickering light on my ceiling, I then got up and looked out the bedroom window and the empty house next door was flickering and I thought it was that thing from Shayna, but it was not on and there is no other bars or discos my my house so no noise just a flicker.

Clarissa2


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 1476

Message Posted:
06/07/2010 10:48

Re : Msg1,



These are parachute flares used by army, seen them many times, especially when driving from Lefkosa to the east.

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
06/07/2010 14:47

That thing as you call it is not at shayna its Cornaro beach club.

johnnybgoode


Joined: 08/12/2008
Posts: 252

Message Posted:
06/07/2010 14:53

msg 11,

jerry lee lewis is still alive @ 78years old and still rocking.

Arthur


Joined: 04/11/2008
Posts: 687

Message Posted:
06/07/2010 16:55

Just to clear up any confusion, the bright light in the sky was of course my flying saucer, I'm sorry if it inconvenienced or troubled any of you homo sapiens.



Many people ask me if there is any intelligent life on Earth, so I reply "yes of course, but I'm only visiting".



Have to go, my Cadbury's Smash is nearly ready...........