(June 5) - Clusters of orange lights that have been illuminating the night sky across Britain and Holland are baffling onlookers, the Daily Mail reported Thursday.
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There are different explanations for the lights, which one man said he captured on his cell phone. An ex-military official told the Daily Mail that the lights were dropped by jets to simulate the path of a missile in order to test the warship's radar systems. But a woman in Lincoln, England -- where some lights were spotted -- said they were nothing more than Chinese lanterns that had been set off at her wedding reception.
Still others said the glowing orbs were an armada of invading UFOs, a theory that elicits scoffs from some experts.
One man who saw the lights on May 27 described them this way:
"They were traveling 15 at a time and every six minutes more seemed to be coming over the horizon. They were not planes. They were not balloons. Each one was the size of a building," said guesthouse owner Auberon Hedgecoe of Huntingdon, England.
The sightings even prompted military officials to check their logs for aircraft activity. But an air force spokesman for a nearby base said it was closed when the last activity was sighted.
Read the full story from the Daily Mail.
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UFOs? Maybe They're Just ...
Some UFO sightings may be due to a natural phenomenon known as sprites, like this one shown above in February. "Lightning from [a] thunderstorm excites the electric field above, producing a flash of light called a sprite," said geophysicist Colin Price. Click through the gallery to see objects sometimes mistaken for a close encounter.
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