Orange light in the nightsky

Orange light in the nightsky

RickardM 28 Dec 2010 21:45

So, I was out walking my dog today and looked up in the sky and saw this bright orange light. It was moving pretty fast in east-west direction and didn't flicker a bit. The light, or lights, looked like a street light seen from afar and then disappeared into the thin air after just about 1 minute. The disappearing wasn't all that strange, since there were lots of clouds when I saw it.

Any ideas on what it could have been? Do planes have a fixed light like this too?

At first I thought it was the ISS, but according to heavens above the ISS shouldn't be visible from my location now. Could it have been a chinese lantern that I saw?

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Facts are stubborn things.
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Re: Orange light in the nightsky

Tomy2011 29 Dec 2010 21:32

Mystery… Maybe a firecracker (a weird one) or a military aircraft.

Could it have been a chinese lantern that I saw?

It's not very likely…

Re: Orange light in the nightsky

RickardM 30 Dec 2010 00:48

It's not very likely…

Care to elaborate that a bit? They sell tonnes of those here since New years eve is comming up this weekend. I personally think that it was either that, or as Astrogeek said, a satellite.

UFO indeed, although hardly driven by aliens=)

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Facts are stubborn things.
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Re: Orange light in the nightsky

Astrogeek 29 Dec 2010 22:37

I'm going to hazard a guess that you saw a satellite.

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Re: Orange light in the nightsky

RoryFoster 29 Dec 2010 21:42

UFO lol joke

Re: Orange light in the nightsky

3WMElliott 29 Dec 2010 23:13

Though technically accurate, as it is "Unidentified".