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Reports are that a loud boom or series of booms last night came from Navy training exercises, but numerous people on the Outer Banks also reported seeing bright orbs rising above the ocean at about the same time.
A loud boom and floating orange orbs were the talk of the beach this morning, but we can confirm with confidence that UFOs are not just over the horizon.
originally posted by: JoeSaintsky
If its military excercises, could it possibly be flares? When they practice near our house the flares are orange and they seem to be floating in the air.
originally posted by: gavron
So, the Navy confirms there were naval exercises being performed that night, another source confirms chinese lanterns were released near the pier that night, and suddenly UFOs are the main culpret?
Occams Razor people...
originally posted by: gavron
So, the Navy confirms there were naval exercises being performed that night, another source confirms chinese lanterns were released near the pier that night, and suddenly UFOs are the main culpret?
Occams Razor people...
originally posted by: JadeStar
They have no idea what Occam's Razor even means.
On the seafloor just off of the U.S. East Coast lies a barely known world, explorations of which bring continual surprises. As recently as the mid-2000s, practically zero methane seeps — spots on the seafloor where gas leaks from the Earth's crust — were thought to exist off the East Coast; while one had been reported more than a decade ago, it was thought to be one of a kind.
But in the past two years, additional studies have revealed a host of new areas of seafloor rich in seeps, said Laura Brothers, a research geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey. And surrounding these seafloor vents, scientists have found a variety of unique life forms, like mussels and crabs, that survive via symbiotic relationships with methane-eating bacteria, Brothers told LiveScience's OurAmazingPlanet. New technologies have allowed scientists to keep locating new seeps, including one that may be the largest in the world. The findings have changed geologists' understanding of the processes taking place beneath the seafloor.
"These newly discovered [seafloor] communities show that there is much more seafloor methane venting then we previously thought, and suggests that there are many more seeps out there that we don't know about," Brothers said.
The seeps were found in four clusters, three of them about 100 miles southeast of Nantucket, Mass. The other cluster, consisting of 17 of the seeps, was mapped about 90 miles east of Cape Henry, Va., according to a release from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, which led the expedition.
originally posted by: gortex
Picture from source 2 Looks like lanterns rising into the night sky to me.