Followup: UFO sighting in the UK!

[Joanne98]

I would post this on LBN but it not really news.... I posted this video, so I thought it was interesting to see the rise in web traffic to this site. I'm interested in UFO's, so sue me...

'UFO sighting' creates web furore for Gazette
By HoldtheFrontPage staff
The Islington Gazette has been thrust into the centre of an Internet furore after video footage of a possible UFO sighting was uploaded onto its website.

The site was bombarded with thousands of visits from around the world after moving images of strange lights over Archway in north London - witnessed by hundreds of people - were posted.

The video prompted a 400 per cent increase in traffic for the site, from 9,000 to more than 36,000 page views for the week.

Users logged on to the site to watch the 30-second video shot by a reader, and many responded to the Archant newspaper's invitation to e-mail the newsdesk with their views on the phenomenon.

Many more readers reported seeing up to 50 orange lights floating over the area, while web viewers from as far away as France, Germany, the United States, Canada and Australia e-mailed their verdict on the film.

Islington Gazette editor Tony Allcock said: "We were surprised and delighted that the story and video created so much comment from so far afield.

"There is clearly a lot of world interest in UFO sightings and the possibility of alien life out there.

"The success of the video reinforced the importance of the web, both to our business and as an interactive tool for our readers."

Many of the e-mails to the paper thought the film did indeed show some form of alien encounter, but others agreed with the theory that the lights were, in fact, large party balloons called "sky lanterns" which can be bought for just a few pounds and can fly up to 2,000 feet high.

To judge for yourself click here.

http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/2007/online/070223isl.shtml

[kittykitty]

1. I agree with the Sky Lanterns theory. Their website explains....

"lanna style balloons, which are made with mulberry paper and bamboo frame rise high and reveal far, it indicates prosperity. It is thought they could rise as high as 1.250 metres, and to travel vast distances."

http://www.skylanterns.com/

[Joanne98]

2. I'm leaning that way too. But I wonder why there hasn't been any balloons

found by citizens. They have to run out of steam. Don't they?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

3. No way.

It's George Galloway's ego.

[Swamp Rat]

4. Sky Lanterns are cool!

I'd like to see the launch of a thousand. :D

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

5. Awwwwww, I Was Hoping It Was Gonna Be Somethin Better. That Was A Yawner Actually.

Probably definitely sky lanterns, and I was surprised that the video caused such a stir but yet the lights on the video do literally nothing but stay exactly the same and drift in the win. It was so unremarkable I'm surprised there was buzz about it at all. I was hoping for something that required far more deduction to determine an opinion one way or the other. :)

[donco6]

6. They do look like they're moving with air currents.

So I'd say sky lanterns. Pretty cool, tho.