Eerie lights hover over Ringland (From South Wales Argus)

Sarah, Cwmbran says...
4:02pm Wed 14 May 08

I saw some blue lights that seemed to be following me the other night, just after I made off with someones car stereo

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Lets go down the Winch, Newport says...
4:08pm Wed 14 May 08

so it's true - Aliens DID cause Fallon to fall off his motorbike OMG!!

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meandog101, Newport says...
4:27pm Wed 14 May 08

Having watched the video, it looks like the sort of clip that you take when you're walking home late at night from your local public house and then suddenly, you hit the ground like a dropped bag of chips. When you come round, you look up and see orange glowing lights - possibly the same sort of light given off by a sodium street light ??!! Things do seem different when you're lying backwards through a hedge!!

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Gene Hunt, Manchester says...
4:47pm Wed 14 May 08

I can confirm it was Newport police in the squad chopper off to buy some donuts.

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Gene Hunt, Manchester says...
4:49pm Wed 14 May 08

I can confirm it was Newport police in the squad chopper off to buy some donuts.

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hhhonlyfan, newport says...
4:59pm Wed 14 May 08

hey

just wanted to say thats my future father in law

comments are out of line unless u saw themyourselves.

i believe that it was an ufo and to all those doubters its not the first siting over newport

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Hay, Newport says...
5:11pm Wed 14 May 08

I have seen orangey/pinky glowing things darting about in the sky before, similar to these, they were hovering in the sky and dartingg about in different directions. I know it wasn't a plane or streetlights but no-1 else believes me! I saw them on 3 seperate occasions over newport about 2 years ago

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seren_night, newport says...
5:18pm Wed 14 May 08

Gene Hunt wrote:
I can confirm it was Newport police in the squad chopper off to buy some donuts.

Gene Hunt....I know it's that sexist, macho copper of Life On Mars(who by the way is totally irrestable for some for god-saken reason)! Nice Handle dude!!! made me smile anyhoo!!!!

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ianzemma, newport says...
5:35pm Wed 14 May 08

Wow!! I'm utterly amazed!! Aliens! Nooo!! Street lights more like! Amazing what happens when you waft the camera around when pointing at a line of street lights. Do people honestly believe this trash??

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ianzemma, newport says...
5:56pm Wed 14 May 08

Hey, and here's another thought! If aliens were to visit this planet, wouldn't they choose somewhere like the 'united nations' or 'washington d.c.'. Ringland?? well I suppose us humans do visit the zoo now and then, perhaps this is the alien equivalent!!

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Joe Mc, Newport says...
6:01pm Wed 14 May 08

Were there any hot air balloons around that night or just a load of hot air?

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Crooky, Newport says...
6:07pm Wed 14 May 08

Editor, Why have you even bothered printing this total rubbish. There are far more newsworthy stories out there to fill your pages and which the public care about without this nonsense.

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Mervyn James, says...
6:24pm Wed 14 May 08

We are not alone..... (But why on EARTH, wouldthey want to go to Ringland ?) It would be hard to spot the alien there....

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Mervyn James, Just outside Mars says...
6:25pm Wed 14 May 08

Why would UFO's want to go to Ringland ? Is it because it would be harder to spot aliens there....

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Ceri, says...
7:01pm Wed 14 May 08

Mervyn James wrote:
We are not alone..... (But why on EARTH, wouldthey want to go to Ringland ?) It would be hard to spot the alien there....

I take umbrage at that comment Merv... Nothing wrong with Ringlanders...I was brought up there... I'm not an alien........oooops sorry Merv, have to go... Morks calling for his tea.... tee hee

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Eveswell Elvis, Wetherspoons Maindee says...
7:07pm Wed 14 May 08

ianzemma wrote:
Hey, and here's another thought! If aliens were to visit this planet, wouldn't they choose somewhere like the 'united nations' or 'washington d.c.'. Ringland?? well I suppose us humans do visit the zoo now and then, perhaps this is the alien equivalent!!

They "Aliens" probably wanted to study one of the more primative societies on earth, hence their nocturnal visit to Ringland.

A a good friend once said to me, " Klattau Barata Nikktu!"

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Ceri, says...
7:08pm Wed 14 May 08

p.s.... all joking aside... I do believe that life exists somewhere other than earth...........

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Mervyn James, says...
7:29pm Wed 14 May 08

Just not in Ringland..... I could have told them that :)

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mtrisca, risca says...
7:36pm Wed 14 May 08

Ceri wrote:
p.s.... all joking aside... I do believe that life exists somewhere other than earth...........

I totally agree, of course there are other life forms out there, it would be a bit arrogant to assume we would be the only planet in the Universe getting dumped on by politians... and grossly unfair ;-)

Anyway, I live in hope that Buzz Lightyear will come back soon and whisk me away to his planet for a candlit dinner and a nice glass of chianti... he can take me to infinity any day :-))

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mtrisca, risca says...
7:38pm Wed 14 May 08

Oops, I could have sworn I checked my spelling.... hic!!

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p008072935, royal oak says...
8:29pm Wed 14 May 08

whats all this rubbish about the police chopper and street lighting?
I can confirm that my wife, myself, and also my brother were in my back garden after a bbq and we counted at least 40 of the 'glowing orange lights' at approx 1am over Royal Oak Drive.

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Mr. Gaunt, says...
8:52pm Wed 14 May 08

40 of them? Sure it wasn't 20 doubled with all the alcohol flowing through your veins...

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lj, newport says...
8:57pm Wed 14 May 08

2 all u doubters i can say that hes not bullsh**ing.not sticking up for him i dont even no the man.ive been checking the argus to see if anyone reported this as a few of my friends seen this up alway around 12am on the same night an i didnt believe them either when they said what they seen untill i had them swearing that they were telling the truth.im sure that one of them video it on there phone aswell so if they did ill see if they will send it in aswell just to show you there was something freaky going on in the sky that night!!!!!!!!!

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sophiexx, uk says...
9:36pm Wed 14 May 08

me my mum and dad seen these orange lights in the sky round about 12:30am we live up alway when we saw them there was about 15 and they were disapearinginto the clouds and within a few minutes they were gone and they were moving around aswell so all you people who are saying it was street lamps and people falling over in hedges you should have saw it for youtself.

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The Guvner, ZooPort says...
9:41pm Wed 14 May 08

JUST CHECKED THAT VIDEO WHAT A LOAD OF PANTS NO WAY IS THAT A UFO OR UFO'S IN THE SKY THATS A PHONE CAMERA MOVING AROUND IN SOMEONES HAND UFO'S MY ARSE!!!! LOL I SEEN IT ALL NOW IM GOONA RECORD MY NEIGHBOUR SHE IS AS ROUND AS A UFO ARGUS YOU GONNA PRINT THAT!!

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GTFBi, Newport says...
12:11am Thu 15 May 08

Awesome - nothing on youtube yet?

Must be a cover up!

<insert comic alien voice here>
"Take me to Paul Flynn MP"

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Joe Mc, Newport says...
12:13am Thu 15 May 08

I just watched the video...its Street Lighting. The 'Globes' are too evenly spaced and and remain equally spaced to it's neighbouring 'globe' all though the video. What a fake!!!

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xclarex, Bettws says...
1:03am Thu 15 May 08

LOL that just made my day! What a load of rubbish! I got a better vid of them "orange" things when I was recording the lighting storm we had on Friday.
Sorry to say it but this just adds to reasoning that us Welsh are stupid.

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xclarex, Bettws says...
1:04am Thu 15 May 08

Oh yeah, i just checked my vids and guess what... the "orange" thing was the strretlamp!

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xclarex, Bettws says...
1:05am Thu 15 May 08

umm ok spelling check lol
*streetlamp

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james, newport says...
8:39am Thu 15 May 08

There is probably alien life in Ringland judging by the inhabitants. Anybody who think they are real UFO's is clearly stupid.

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Ceri, says...
8:50am Thu 15 May 08

Nothing wrong with Ringlanders.... every estate, street, road, avenue has there fair share of morons....

And now the sightings have been confirmed... YAY!!!

'mtrisca'.... how many glasses have you had tonight?... hic

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tejls, newport says...
9:01am Thu 15 May 08

I can confirm i saw these orange lights and have a few pictures of them and other strange things / figures that appeared on my camera that night. Except, it was Tuesday night and i was at a BBQ in Cardiff, the nearest side to Newport. I personally don't believe in other life such as aliens or UFO's but after picking these up on my camera I have some slight belief there could be something. I didn't think that the picture would come out of what i actually saw, like people seeing a ghost and taking a picture, it disappears. I didn't believe my eyes until i heard that some other people had seen these strange lights / figures in the sky.

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BT, newport says...
9:37am Thu 15 May 08

We are not alone..... (But why on EARTH, wouldthey want to go to Ringland ?) It would be hard to spot the alien there....

It would be hard to spot Aliens in NEWPORT - lets not limit it just to Ringland

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seren_night, newport says...
9:39am Thu 15 May 08

meandog101 wrote:
Having watched the video, it looks like the sort of clip that you take when you're walking home late at night from your local public house and then suddenly, you hit the ground like a dropped bag of chips. When you come round, you look up and see orange glowing lights - possibly the same sort of light given off by a sodium street light ??!! Things do seem different when you're lying backwards through a hedge!!

hee hee!! roll on Friday night! ;)

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natalie_89, Corperation Road, Newport says...
10:24am Thu 15 May 08

On the 9th may 2008, around about 9pm, me n my partner were coming back from porthcawl,As we were driving back just about to come into Cardiff, i noticed about six or seven orange bright lights in the sky, they were definatley not stars, as we came closer to the lights i popped my head out of the window to get a clearer look, there was no sound coming from them and i could not see anything attached to them. they wasnt even moving.as we were undrneath the lights they were very blurred.
Does anyone know what these lights are?

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natalie_89, Corperation Road says...
10:32am Thu 15 May 08

On the 9th may 2008, around about 9pm, me n my partner were coming back from porthcawl,As we were driving back just about to come into Cardiff, i noticed about six or seven orange bright lights in the sky, they were definatley not stars, as we came closer to the lights i popped my head out of the window to get a clearer look, there was no sound coming from them and i could not see anything attached to them. they wasnt even moving.as we were undrneath the lights they were very blurred.
Does anyone know what these lights are?
I've never seen anything like these before.

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james, newport says...
11:19am Thu 15 May 08

natalie_89 wrote:
On the 9th may 2008, around about 9pm, me n my partner were coming back from porthcawl,As we were driving back just about to come into Cardiff, i noticed about six or seven orange bright lights in the sky, they were definatley not stars, as we came closer to the lights i popped my head out of the window to get a clearer look, there was no sound coming from them and i could not see anything attached to them. they wasnt even moving.as we were undrneath the lights they were very blurred. Does anyone know what these lights are? I've never seen anything like these before.

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rwako, goytre says...
11:31am Thu 15 May 08

i live in goytre and about 10 30 we saw an orange burning light in the sky the same night we dont have streeet lights where we live so explain that one it was not a plane either a very bright orange burning light that you could mistaker for a flARE

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adamant, cwmbran says...
12:14pm Thu 15 May 08

at last..been waiting for this to come about. saw one light, orange, over cwmbran same time saturday night.like a burning orange blob that went up and out of sight slowly like a ballon would. mate got it on video and one of the others on their phone. 8 of us at a bbq but 3 of us sober! was very strange and we could here others further up the street commenting on it!

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Omega, says...
12:16pm Thu 15 May 08

Probably weather balloons...

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Eveswell Elvis, Wetherspoons Maindee says...
1:12pm Thu 15 May 08

There is usually an bright orange light that's in the sky above Newport it moves slowy too - it's the sun!!
Can't see it today though, thats spooky!!

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natalie_89, Newport says...
1:41pm Thu 15 May 08

On May 9th 2008, Me and my Friend were driving back from porthcawl around about 9pm. just before we got into Cardiff i noticed about six or seven bright orange lights in the sky, they were very blurred too. As we got closer to the lights i popped my head out of the window for a clearer look, these lights were not planes or airballoons. They wernt moving and wasnt making any sound. other motorist were looking out of thier window in curiosity, others had pulled over on the motorway looking up at the lights. The lights were very unusual, they were about 200ft up, some were higher than the others. I would like to know what these lights were. As they did actually freak me and my friend out. Natalie-h-2k6@hotmai
l.co.uk

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South Wales Argus, Newport says...
2:09pm Thu 15 May 08

If anyone has pictures or video of their sightings, please send them to yourpictures@southwa
lesargus.co.uk or 80360 with the message 'ARGUS NEWS'.

Thanks

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Chef, Newport says...
3:14pm Thu 15 May 08

Oh my god' i was just driving home and i saw 6 orange lights at the side of the motorway and they were going off and on and off and on again all in the same sequance....WHA ON EARTH WAS IT????? the lights were attached to big metalic things with the letters JCB written on the side. are these the aliens form of transport do you think?

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Chef, Newport says...
3:14pm Thu 15 May 08

Oh my god' i was just driving home and i saw 6 orange lights at the side of the motorway and they were going off and on and off and on again all in the same sequance....WHA ON EARTH WAS IT????? the lights were attached to big metalic things with the letters JCB written on the side. are these the aliens form of transport do you think?

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DG, Newport says...
4:42pm Thu 15 May 08

Sorry guys - but they look like distress flares to me. They are very bright, make no noise once launched and burn for ages drifting on the breeze, then suddenly fade out.

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DG, Newport says...
4:49pm Thu 15 May 08

And sorry to be pedantic, but they ARE UFOs - Unidentified Flying Objects. UFO doesn't mean alien.

But speaking of extraterrestrial - could've been a meteor shower? Or space debris burning up?

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ianzemma, newport says...
5:23pm Thu 15 May 08

Ok..I saw these too..I saw one of them land...a door opened....there was a big bright light....all of a sudden from the open doorway came a small shuffling creature with weird..grey/green skin,it took one long look around ....saw ringland and said..in a strange eerie voice "Fook this lads..we've landed in the rubbish dump"..and then..the craft took off..Honest m'lud..that's what happed....god's honest truth right there.

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Lets go down the Winch, Newport says...
5:57pm Thu 15 May 08

Hey I can see a bright red light right now!!

Oops... sorry, it was just my mouse!!

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bluebird, newport says...
6:56pm Thu 15 May 08

my husband and i were driving towards newport from bristol last december and spotted what we thought was a flare in the sky,we thought no more of it as it was daytime but now am thinking differently.Do ufo's appear during the day time??????...i dont knowitalic

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Gwent Villan, Cwmbran says...
9:09pm Thu 15 May 08

We also saw this, but there was only 1 light in the sky above Cwmbran around 22:30 on Saturday night. We were having a BBQ when one of our friends spotted it in the sky. I rushed inside to get the video camera, and filmed it. I have sent this into the editor, so hopefully they will publish for you all to view. We dont believe in UFO's etc, but this wasnt natural, or something any of the 8 of us have seen before....... We would love an explaination off the authorities, please can someone explain this to us.

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bongo, Caerleon says...
9:09pm Thu 15 May 08

Think your right DG Could well have been distress flares the way the lights move sounds like the way you say flares move But i have never seen one before

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tomtom, newport says...
10:47pm Thu 15 May 08

Have the argus got the day right - Saturday night!! or was it friday night saturday morning, as bristol airport had nine planes in the hold over somerset/welsh coast waiting for that storm to die out, the timings are right but the day is wrong - just a thought

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xclarex, Bettws says...
10:58pm Thu 15 May 08

tejls wrote:
I can confirm i saw these orange lights and have a few pictures of them and other strange things / figures that appeared on my camera that night. Except, it was Tuesday night and i was at a BBQ in Cardiff, the nearest side to Newport. I personally don't believe in other life such as aliens or UFO's but after picking these up on my camera I have some slight belief there could be something. I didn't think that the picture would come out of what i actually saw, like people seeing a ghost and taking a picture, it disappears. I didn't believe my eyes until i heard that some other people had seen these strange lights / figures in the sky.

How long ago did you buy your camera?? I'd take it back - it sounds faulty

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hhhonlyfan, newport says...
11:08pm Thu 15 May 08

again to all doubters

im sick of people making comments

to all those who saw thats my future father in law and whatever people say many people have seen them

look at recent files released from mod

enough said

thats my family people are insulting

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Welshbubble, Newport says...
1:09am Fri 16 May 08

1. It WAS last Saturday night.
2. In my opinion they were hot air balloons.
3. They travelled west pretty quick after the burners went out, so there was a strong breeze up there.
4. Who flies balloons at night?
5. Ringland is OK, please don't knock it!

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Mervyn James, says...
9:59am Fri 16 May 08

Chef wrote:
Oh my god' i was just driving home and i saw 6 orange lights at the side of the motorway and they were going off and on and off and on again all in the same sequance....WHA ON EARTH WAS IT????? the lights were attached to big metalic things with the letters JCB written on the side. are these the aliens form of transport do you think?

I saw lots of stars hovering around my head yesterday, there is no truth in the rumour the 10 lagers and my falling down the stairs had any bearing on this... I saw pink elephants too.

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Jo, says...
10:20am Fri 16 May 08

I was with a friend when I also saw these orange lights over the fields between Caerleon and St Julians on Saturday 10 May 08 at around midnight.
We had not been drinking alcohol and hadnt taken drugs!
There were approx 20 -30 of these 'orange balls of fire' which seemed to be floating in a southerly direction.
At the time I was seeing them I was also trying to work out what they could be - reflections from street lights, fireworks, large glowing insects (?!) etc but there was no explanation. Like some other people on here I dont believe
in aliens so I researched them on the net.
There have been many sightings all over the UK, America and in Australia.
I read many articles about what they could be and from that, I think they may have been weather balloons. These are released around midnight and generally on clear, nights. They have small lights attached to them and disintergrate after approx 15 minutes.
I'm not a scientist but I think this might be a good explanation of what we DID see!!!

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Helen Willison, christchurch says...
1:05pm Fri 16 May 08

my name is helen willison we were in the argus last year for putting a giant pink bow around our home for our daughters birthday party you may of read about it..??we are pleased to see that my 40th birthday has caused such a stir and I can reveal that we set off 50 sky lanterns at midnight and made wishes, they are an old chinese tradition and we used them as We held an oriental party for 80 friends so there are no UFO,s SORRY.. they are about a meter high and 60 cm diamiter they are lit by a fire lighter and off they go to around 1500 feet HOPE YOU ALL enjoyed them and thanks to everyone for making my night so much fun xxbold

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tejls, newport says...
1:10pm Fri 16 May 08

There seems to be many people that saw these UFO's. And, as for you xclairex i would like to tell you that i bought my camera less than 2 weeks ago and how come many other pictures have been taken of the same thing. Faulty camera? no, it's perfectly fine thank-you. Also I'd just like to say that a UFO doesn't mean alien like you read in small children's books, it is actually an abbreviated word for UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT. So, in future before being sinical, check your facts.

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laetitia, newport says...
1:26pm Fri 16 May 08

Well as a guest of the above mentioned 40th party, I can quite honestly say that the Chinese lanterns were a fabulous thing to do and wishes included a cure for MS, world peace, new cars and lottery wins - I am delighted to see that others in South Wales were able to enjoy them too. I would, however, like to apologise to Mr Holmes of Newport for any concern he may have had for his safety.

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georgethebear, newport says...
1:50pm Fri 16 May 08

I have seen the video and i can tell you that they are, what we call UFO balloons. I have let a few of these go myself and the orange glow is the firelighter which hangs on thin copper wires attached to a thin membrane which inflates just like a hot air balloon, but there must be hardly any wind for them to work properly. They can be seen for many miles and they will stay under the cloud cover, and will last for about 15 minutes. Don`t let this put you off the subject of ETs and UFOs.They do exist. They have been on this planet longer than we have. It`s them who put us here.

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bluebird, newport says...
4:03pm Fri 16 May 08

may i please make a suggestion?.....well
,im going to anyway...could any person or persons who let off anything into the sky last saturday night that might have caused these lights in the talked about areas please contact the argus as you have caused such a stir...

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ianzemma, newport says...
4:31pm Fri 16 May 08

ha ha...priceless....we
ll done to helen willison on giving me the best laugh i've had for a while,it seems your lanterns created quite a stir!!..I'm sure we'll all look forward to your 41st birthday!..Well done X

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bluebird, newport says...
5:52pm Fri 16 May 08

haha...thats a classic, youve made a right fool of mr holmes....mr holmes if your reading,remember the date for helens next birthday celebrations...helen where did you get those lanterns theyre fantastic

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Gwent Villan, Cwmbran says...
7:29pm Fri 16 May 08

Sorry to spoil your explanations, but we saw one light around 10:30. I sent our video into the argus, but they have replied..... This was not your latern

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