New Chicago sighting (with video).

Unidentified Flying Objects OVER Chicago's south side? More like IN the south side.

The newscast said that the cell phone camera recorded the objects at 8 pm. The Baby James foundation launched the lanterns at 7:30. There was no rhyme or reason to the "formation" of those lighted objects

I have identified them as Chinese lanterns, therefore they are I.F.O's, not U.F.O's.

Case closed for me.

Originally posted by TripleSalCal
Seriously, lets get over Chinese lanterns. That is the worst excuse to just push something under the table. Or you could just be the Air Force and call it "swamp gas"

I'm kind of curious what people like the above have to say for themselves after it was found out that these are, in fact, Chinese lanterns.

TripleSalCal, it has nothing to do with pushing anything under the table. Some of us have been researching UFO's our entire lives and most of us can easily identify alot of these objects in the sky most of the time. These appeared to be nothing more than Chinese lanterns at first glance. Turned out they really were. What do you have to say for yourself? Why do you accuse people of "pushing something under the table" when they were actually correct?

I find this type of behavior very disturbing. Some people want to believe so badly, that they don't even think of what real-world objects these could be before they automatically assume those objects are UFOs. Then accuse others of pushing something under the table. Unbelievable.

Originally posted by Vio1ion
Since when lanterns pop up out of nowhere? No one seems to have notice them going up either. And at this height, I think there's too much wind.

Your not making sense

where did they "pop out of nowhere"?

What has the "height" and "wind" got to do with anything?

Originally posted by _BoneZ_

Originally posted by TripleSalCal
Seriously, lets get over Chinese lanterns. That is the worst excuse to just push something under the table. Or you could just be the Air Force and call it "swamp gas"

I'm kind of curious what people like the above have to say for themselves after it was found out that these are, in fact, Chinese lanterns.

TripleSalCal, it has nothing to do with pushing anything under the table. Some of us have been researching UFO's our entire lives and most of us can easily identify alot of these objects in the sky most of the time. These appeared to be nothing more than Chinese lanterns at first glance. Turned out they really were. What do you have to say for yourself? Why do you accuse people of "pushing something under the table" when they were actually correct?

I find this type of behavior very disturbing. Some people want to believe so badly, that they don't even think of what real-world objects these could be before they automatically assume those objects are UFOs. Then accuse others of pushing something under the table. Unbelievable.

He has nothing to say because he has egg on his face, He completely discounted the most plausible explanation becuase ''he wants to believe''. Most UFO sightings are easily explainable but to the blind followers they wont except the truth being down to earth

Originally posted by _BoneZ_

Originally posted by TripleSalCal
Seriously, lets get over Chinese lanterns. That is the worst excuse to just push something under the table. Or you could just be the Air Force and call it "swamp gas"

I'm kind of curious what people like the above have to say for themselves after it was found out that these are, in fact, Chinese lanterns.

TripleSalCal, it has nothing to do with pushing anything under the table. Some of us have been researching UFO's our entire lives and most of us can easily identify alot of these objects in the sky most of the time. These appeared to be nothing more than Chinese lanterns at first glance. Turned out they really were. What do you have to say for yourself? Why do you accuse people of "pushing something under the table" when they were actually correct?

I find this type of behavior very disturbing. Some people want to believe so badly, that they don't even think of what real-world objects these could be before they automatically assume those objects are UFOs. Then accuse others of pushing something under the table. Unbelievable.

I'd also like to hear what they have to say now.

It feels like these kinds of "believers" spend their whole time jumping between unexplained phenomena making wild claims that things are of "extra terrestrial" in origin without adding any evidence of their own.
Then as soon as someone provides proof that they were wrong they'll just move on and do it all over again with the next bunch of lights.

If they honestly believed any of these photos were evidence of visitations from another world they would still be in threads like this claiming those things and giving their side of the evidence.

From their actions I have to conclude that they never truly believe the claims that they make over and over.

It gets very frustrating watching them act like this. Grasping at straws looking for evidence that deep down they know doesn't really exist.

I heard about this on the radio this morning (WBBM 780) I was disappointed but better to get the false sightings out of the way if anything.

Renee Hutchinson, who started the Baby James Foundation, explained the lights were actually sky lanterns released in memory of abuse victims. "You light the bottom of them and they heat up, and as they heat up, they fill up like hot air balloons and they go into the sky," Hutchinson said.

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Originally posted by Majestic Lumen
I heard about this on the radio this morning (WBBM 780) I was disappointed but better to get the false sightings out of the way if anything.

Renee Hutchinson, who started the Baby James Foundation, explained the lights were actually sky lanterns released in memory of abuse victims. "You light the bottom of them and they heat up, and as they heat up, they fill up like hot air balloons and they go into the sky," Hutchinson said.

News Source

Amazing that the news reporters didn't do any basic research before they said anything.

I guess taking the time to look into the facts first doesn't get them the page views.

reply to post by skyjohn


Well they interviewed the lady that released them, and the location of the release coincides with the area of the sightings. Now, to be fair, I was not at the release, so I can not say for sure if it is true or if it is a cover up, but just how not all UFO sightings are lanterns, the same goes not all "lantern" sightings are UFO's

reply to post by Argyll




Since it is using fire, the light coming from it should not be as bright as depicted in the multiple sightings and some were really bright.

As for the height, the more altitude, the less oxygen available to enable combustion. And also with altitude, the wind is stronger because there's nothing in the way like houses and buildings.

Originally posted by skyjohn
I'd also like to hear what they have to say now.

It feels like these kinds of "believers" spend their whole time jumping between unexplained phenomena making wild claims that things are of "extra terrestrial" in origin without adding any evidence of their own.
Then as soon as someone provides proof that they were wrong they'll just move on and do it all over again with the next bunch of lights.

If they honestly believed any of these photos were evidence of visitations from another world they would still be in threads like this claiming those things and giving their side of the evidence.

From their actions I have to conclude that they never truly believe the claims that they make over and over.

It gets very frustrating watching them act like this. Grasping at straws looking for evidence that deep down they know doesn't really exist.

Well, I reckon the 2 posts above this one will give you some insight into the minds of the true believers.

It has been conclusively proved that these lights were lanterns yet these people still cling to the hope that they were something extraterrestrial.

Neither you nor I will ever change their minds because they are so desperate to have their mundane existenses relieved by ET.

We're wasting our breath.

Listen to the girl in the first video. A very lame "What the hell are those...*cackle*"

1117 UFO Sighting in Chicago April 2, 2011

There are tons videos on this one. And reports.

I read a great line on another site, if lanterns are so bright and well lit at 30 000 feet (or whatever this is) why would anyone be using fossil fuels or nuclear energy?

They're not lanterns.

My question is, whats going on that so interesting in Chicago? any events planned?

Its a joke, something really interesting, even according to the reporter, and the weatherman says no they're not meteors, and its a real mystery, and this thread is overlooked. Only 9 flags. And cries of chinese lanterns,. Just remember the koolaid isnt good for you, so stop drinking it, OK?

Originally posted by Unity_99
I read a great line on another site, if lanterns are so bright and well lit at 30 000 feet (or whatever this is) why would anyone be using fossil fuels or nuclear energy?

I know you're just having fun making yourself look like an idiot in a debunked thread, but i'll bite.

Where are you pulling the figure of 30,000ft from? Apart from out of your butt.

They are lanterns, and they aren't more than a few hundred feet up.

reply to post by skyjohn


ITs not debunked. Thats the real joke. That is whats so funny. There are many like that, some are in the hoax bin. Seems somebody like to herd people off the threads and throw a few lines out.

Yeah that video really looked like lanterns too, didn't it.

Again, wonder what event is happening in Chicago.

Because they're either ours or theirs. A lot are ours.

And due to their underground bunkers, cloning and dna etc etc, we have our own fleets of UFO's and henchmen flying the ones that aren't droids.

You never know when Russia or China, or Cuba could spying on you.

I'll just note that you didn't answer the question.

If you're going to claim we are wrong here you need to offer at least a shred of evidence for your claims of them being at 30,000ft.

reply to post by skyjohn


The comment was a joke, concerning how apt people are to call different colored lights, lanterns. They're not often. Generalization, get it. I also said who knows what height these are because that part was irrelevant.

Doesn't mean just because they put it occasionally on the news its the real thing either, that could go other way I suppose, some news might act like Sorcha Faal making fun out serious issues.

However, this was captured by quite a few.

And cameras capturing anything are very poor pictures to do analysis on. For example I managed to capture a craft that I saw, and what is the video is a red orb. Someone called it a light, like a stationary light, which it isn't and wasn't. The only thing that was important is the testimony because I saw what it was, it was quite low, maybe a couple hundred feet in the air, above the school area, which considering what I know about the black ops and dumbs and my own experiences, and considering the agendas of the leaders and their "gifts" they like to give us, sometimes viral, etc. etc. who knows the nano gifts they could be seniding, the idea of this over a school isn't a welcome one.

So, a visual of a red orb moving very slowly, or a description of what the person saw, I'd be curious. What the descriptioins are here, if these things were only a few hundred up, surely descriptions would be forthcoming.

Mine was the size of a small plane, without the wingspan, covered in a red light, soundless, and nearly hovering it was moving so slow, out back, for about 5 minutes. I'd seen it my bare feet and had to run in after 3 minutes I think, my feet were frozen.

This was the 3rd and last time of seeing something there in a week. The only time I thought to try my camera out. I don't know if its the same thing in each occasion, but the two times from my property, it was over the school. The time I didn't catch it on film it flies off slowly. The first time was while leaving the store with my mother. I knew there was a ufo/craft and looked up. Though I don't think its one of theirs, do think its one of ours. No choppers arrived on the scene and no connection to it save for knowing it was a UFO, which is I think related to the energy or scalar waves or what it uses. Then I almost crashed into another car. So I pulled over to the side and stopped. Instantly, this craft that was soundless, hovering and flying very slowly, the size of a small plane, with a red light, seemed to have odd weird not quite wings. Somthing very short with elbows that went back and not very large to the size, nothing like the planes that fly over iwth wide wingspan, white, red and green /blue lights and lots and lots of noise. Plus they keep this speed thing going!!! As soon as I pulled over it flew off. So this one I captured that looked the same, except I couldnt see short stubby elbowed wings, in the dark from my lawn, have no idea if it was.

So, there is the testimony. What it was, what 3 tmes something was, and even my mother saw. No choppers or chase was on, so it must have been ours. Twice over the school.

And heres the video, quite a difference I'd say.



No, its not a light on the hill, its not a lantern, its not a bird. I know what I saw and it was quite large. Not too far. We border the school fence and field. So about a couple blocks away kind of.

Edit to add: They're doing things to the kids. Thats my opinion. Ours/US/Russia/China? They don't do things randomly however, its a pyramid, the differences are for our eyes only, theres a top however world wide.

Also note, my camera is a Kodak easyshare z1012, 10. 1 mega pixels (had to look it up! ) I'm not good with cameras, so this was my trying my video mode out. It takes still shots in night vision, but not video.

What are most cell phone cameras like nowadays? I don't use cell phones.

The picture does no justice to the siting.

I'm going to say more, this is the part that confuses me, for we get planes flying overhead, and as an example. One of them appeared as a weird bluish/greenish star, which meant it had to be at a certain angle I guess, then it grew bigger, and finally whole plane, wings, noise, 3 lights. The height I can't guess at, but would call it low plane height, very common for planes flying low.

A higher height than this was.

So, I don't know if the 3 sitings were the same thing though same size, same red light, same soundless slow motion, almost hovering.

The first time near the store it had really short stubby bent back wings with elbows, odd looking.

The second time was shorter, and the third time was longer, two attempts were made to film the first was a flub. Anyway, couldn't tell what the wings were, roughly a week or a little a part from first to last.

Then I was trying my camera out in still shot, with night vision around the yard, when my feet were in boots, and this red light, soundless craft, flew over again. I saw no wingspan, along the side of the property. None. But it was higher, like a typical plane height, though not the same path normally.

I was trying to walk around the clump of treetops this disappeared behind and switch it back into video mode because I couldn't even get it into the viewfinder for a still shot attempt. I saw nothing show up on the camera. Nothing came out the other side past the trees when I walked around them quickly it was gone.

I thought they might have noticed I was out back close to the fence filming them and flew over.

If it ever stops raining I'd like to try and capture a typical plane but not sure if it will turn out as they move fast and I know the still shot night vision mode won't work.

But it would really useful for people to make a thread where they captured, planes at various heights and angles/directions near them, preferable with sound. Choppers anything else. For comparison sake and also to show what various cameras, cell phones and videos can produce for the "average" not expert.

reply to post by MiTS1965


No, you didn't waste your time.

I just don't know what it was and I wanted to know why it was so bright. Anybody could just say that they released chinese lanterns and you would take it as fact ?

You, sir, are a True Skeptic.