Life is sometimes Fortean because...

[Dandontdare]

beat me to it MIK - yeah those bloody lanterns are everywhere these days and they're a menace!

[M.I.K.]

They are. Willing to cut whoever let that one away some slack, though, seeing as how it was Chinese New Year on monday.

[Gonk]

Nah. It weren't no firework. I like fireworks. This just sort hung in the sky. A glowing orange orb, it silently drifted of then just as silently drifted back. It was following me for some reason. I'm a big guy I don't scare that easily so to make me run like I did the other night takes more than a few fireworks!

[M.I.K.]

Nobody said anything about fireworks. You were running away from a small hot air balloon.

http://youtu.be/CFmPdPVMxWo

[Gonk]

 

[TordelBack]

In fairness to wonkychop, I frequent an astronomy-type forum, and every single day there's post along the lines of: "I saw an orange pulsing ball moving really quickly across the sky/ just hanging there, I'm sure it was the Space Station / a UFO / a meteorite", followed by the resigned "It was a chinese lantern", and usually followed by two pages of passionate defense as to why it couldn't have been a chinese lantern...  But it always is.

[SmallBlueThing]

Dont worry wonkchop, we've all done something similar- i, for instance, was once reduced to screaming like a girl and suffered an impromptu weeing accident due to mistaking a plastic bag for a flying severed head.

SBT

[Gonk]

Thanks mate, at least you weren't scared of a plain old tomcat like M.I.K. was.

[Proudhuff]

Just when everyone starts to ignore these, the Chinese army will use em to invade!! 

[M.I.K.]

I don't recall saying anything about being scared, Mister Runsawayfromballoons.

Dont worry wonkchop, we've all done something similar- i, for instance, was once reduced to screaming like a girl and suffered an impromptu weeing accident due to mistaking a plastic bag for a flying severed head.

What age were you when this occurred?

[SmallBlueThing]

About seventeen!

SBT

[Dandontdare]

Dont worry wonkchop, we've all done something similar- i, for instance, was once reduced to screaming like a girl and suffered an impromptu weeing accident due to mistaking a plastic bag for a flying severed head.

SBT

When I was very young (maybe 7-8?) I was returning from my friend's house (next door but one) one dark winter tea-time after an evening swapping spooky stories*. I looked down the street and saw TWO HORRIFIC GLOWING RED EYES! I was transfixed, but the beast slowly backed away and I ran home crapping myself.

This event stayed with me, but it was only years later that I suddenly thought - D'Oh - tail lights!

*the only one of which I remember wasn't actually spooky, just bizarre.

[The Legendary Shark]

'It's either the Millennium Falcon or a gateway to hell': Shipwreck hunters find mysterious object at bottom of Baltic Sea

[mygrimmbrother]

Saw that - it's frigging brilliant! And huge, and there's a second mysterious circular object about 200m away. Too big to be parts of a wreck they say too.

[The Legendary Shark]

I'm sure it'll be gone as soon as Chewie gets the engines fixed...