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For a few days, the strange case of the Cincinnati Lights intrigued UFO fans, but it looks as if the person who took the original video has come up with the likeliest answer: The spooky lights floating through the sky are best explained as skydivers doing a show during a football game at a nearby high school.
The Sept. 28 light show was certainly reminiscent of more celebrated UFO cases, such as the Phoenix Lights of 1997 — but it was also similar to the El Paso Lights of 2010, which were similarly traced to skydivers using pyrotechnics. This time, it was the video shooter (known on YouTube as Galuyasdi) who figured out that a Start Skydiving team was doing a pyro show for La Salle High School's homecoming game at just about the time that the sighting took place. (La Salle lost to Moeller; sorry about that, Lancers.)
Even though this case appears to be solved, echoes of the Cincinnati Lights are still reverberating among UFO fans. It's always harder to track down the likely cause of a UFO sighting than to put up a video and just leave it at that. Hats off to the videographer and fellow investigators who solved their own mystery before it became a full-fledged UFO meme.
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When I was in elementary school , I would sometimes ride my bike by the laundry mat on my way home and ask for a large dress plastic bag covering and stop by the hobby store for a 1/8 inch balsa wood stick .
I would melt the top of the bag closed and fit an X shape from the balsa wood to the bottom of the bag .
Then I would melt several candles to the center of the X creating a hot air balloon .
It would really glow nicely in the evening as it floated away .
When the candles reached the balsa wood , parts of the candles and balsa wood , would fall on fire for a short distance .
This video reminded me of those hot air balloons .
Thanks
Gotta tell my UFO story....
Back in 1966 I was the Base UFO Officer at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. (Hey, it was better than being the Base Mortuary Officer.) It was just a detail --- a small routiner task that was randomly assigned to someone new. I was in intelligence so someone thought it was a good fit, I suppose. Most of the calls were from people who had witnessed low-level mid-air refueling practice at night. Occasionally there would be reflections of car lights off optic layers in the atmosphere.
But one weekend day, we all watched as a 30-story balloon that had been launched near the Canadian border came near the base. I took pictures as local helicopters and small planes flew around the balloon like gnats. I think it was called Skyhook. Late that evening, a call was routed to me from the Highway Patrol. A woman was on the phone and she was reporting that she had captured a UFO full of aliens. I asked her how she did this and she said that it was trailing a bunch of ropes and that she had tied them to shrubbery, her carport and her chain link fence. I demanded that she immediately untie the "UFO" but was too late. All I got was a shriek and she hung up the phone. All the rest of the night I got phone calls from rural central Louisiana about a UFO moving slowly along taking down all the power and telephone lines by dragging a large metal object resembling a carport tangled with a chain link fence.
Chris: LMAO! GREAT story. I had no idea that there was such a thing as a Base UFO Officer......I bet you laughed a lot!
A skydiving pyrotechnic show ? Why that explains absolutely everything! Except there were no firework noises or explosions witnessed. Chinese lanterns would have been more believable. Next thing you know it's going to be a Christmas parade of military fighter jets.
No offense, but depending on wind and distance, you may not here anything, on the other hand, if everything is just right, as to wind and distance, I can hear the railroad trains from about 11 miles a way, but it has to be quiet too. And usually I only hear the sound during winter, I live in New Mexico and weather here is messed up, just wait 5 minutes and it'll change. Oh and last I heard I think Chinese lanterns go up and not down. Just sayin.
I live in near this location and the story is...... absolutely true, you see sky divers with pyro from time to time in middletown too..
The photographer was over 3 miles away from the show which is the closest Wal-mart to the school. It takes about 15 seconds to travel that far. Only the largest fireworks could be heard that far.
A skydiving pyrotechnic show means that skydivers were carrying flares and were parachuting in formation.
They were not carrying explosive fireworks so there wouldn't have been any fireworks noise at any distance.
I hope we have a few conspiracy theorists weigh in on this matter. There is nothing like a whacked out freak show to make a simple explanation sound like a huge international plot. Go for it, boys!
So, becoming a "full-fledged UFO Meme" is evil? Or, are you saying its evil to believe in UFO's?
It's not evil to believe in UFOs; it's just damned embarrassing. Unless you're ten or eleven, that is.
Why? Why is it embarrassing to believe in Flying Saucers and Little Green Men when in fact only a few cases have been debunked by Pseudoskeptics. So far the Pseudoskeptics have NOT explained away Flying Saucers and Little Green Men, to my Skeptical Satisfaction.
Getting popcorn this should be a good piece of entertainment watching how they try to explain this to me.
and this is my opinion only
I went to the University of Cincinnati and before every Saturday night football game members of the sky diving team fly down on these rockets and land on the field. It looks like you can see a football stadium in the background so I am guessing they are near the stadium and this is what they saw.
You are confused. Skeptics are those who question the claims of blithering idiots and the people who will believe any bizarre story, no matter how preposterous, are anything but skeptical.
Let me make this easy for you: aliens are not visiting the Earth. Period.
forget about these ufo video's that they love to easily explain away read steven m greer's briefing to presidant obama about what's going on behind his back
So the aliens are doing skydiving shows now... pretty smart, they know how to make a buck and have fun too
Where do I apply, need some bucks!
this? made news?
Yes it did.
I know all the Pseudoskeptics want to squash anything that does not fit the Main Stream society of ideas but too bad, its called Freedom of the Press. As a Skeptic I have no problems with hearing the occasional UFO or Little Green Men report on the News. It just means to me Freedom of the Press is alive and well despite the Main Stream.
And thats my opinion.
Seriously? sky divers with pyro for a high school football game. It's not the NFL
Hey, no offense, but HS football is getting weird. We just played and looked at film on either 8mm or 16mm. Back then people would have never thought about this stuff. But even ESPN is doing HS games. These guys take HS football seriously, once had a guy walk into my ER with a screwdriver in his upper back after being at a football game, I guess his team won and somebody didn't like. Just sayin
Two of Team Fastrax's professional skydiving team members, myself and my brother Alex Hart, are La Salle High School alumni and we enjoy skydiving into their football games. High school football in Cincinnati is celebrated to a degree unlike any where else. People who grew up and went to high school in Cincinnati will agree with this statement.
Nonsense... Goverment always trying to make us think the way they want us to think.. it is an alien craft..
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why the hell does facebook keep trying to open when I comment on stuff? Should I just cancel my crappy, good for nothing facebook account?
I don't deal with facebook, but I ain't sure what's happening with you. I use facebook very seldom as I don't people that can see everything about me. Not sure but you might have a virus or trogan horse. You have to get some sort of security I think. I ain't that smart, but only have one question. Do you have a PC or a MAC? Only reason why I ask is cause I had/have a PC and the amount of money I spent was stupid, now I have a MAC and ain't spending any money. I think you are as stupid as me so the only thing I can say is Good Luck. I'm still working on how to use what I got. Just like movies and maybe you tube. Try and stay away from all these programs that offer to fix your problem for a price. Most stuff you can get for free, like SOPHUS(ain't sure of spelling). Plus if you use comcast(as much as it sucks) you get Norton protection for free(better than DSL)
ivan, it was a video recording, there is no reference to it having sound. Your making up facts. You could simply look up the news in that area and SEE if there were any sky diving teams preforming during this time.
Hey John, you post this reminder again and I'll ask you to walk into that propeller...
Well I see the U F O nuts are on the loose. Has anyone noticed that since everybody has a camera on their cell phones that you don't have all of those U F O an Bigfoot sightings Like there used to be when I was younger. The Aliens must be camera shy.
Why are those of the public that believe in UFO's or Little Green men considered insane (You call them nuts)?
Don't people have a right to believe in anything they want?
Hey! Don't put Bigfoot and little green men into the same category. They both exist, but one is too far away to consider making the journey.
High school? What kind of a high school gets a parajump performence for a football game? I mean I know they have homecoming around this time, but still.
Two of Team Fastrax's professional skydiving team members, myself and my brother Alex Hart, are La Salle High School alumni and we enjoy skydiving into their football games. High school football in Cincinnati is celebrated to a degree unlike any where else. People who grew up and went to high school in Cincinnati will agree with this statement.
This is a massive, conspiratorial cover-up. Those really are UFO's, piloted by beings from an alien world, hovering over a Walmart. They are in negotiations with the "super-store" because the company is seeking to now out-source to the planet Glaxelon rather than China because labor costs there are cheaper and profits would thus be even greater.
Write a book, seriously.
Is it really necessary to make fun of those of the Public who believe in Flying Saucers or Little Green Men?
Just state that you do not believe these were Flying Saucers (Alternately that you believe what the Cameraman Said that they were Parachute jumpers) and leave it at that eh?
Yup, it is. Besides, it's fun.
Whatever! We need Scully and Moulder stat .... A definite conspiracy there in them thar hills.
And this is news because....? It has occurred to me that the whole thing is an attempt to get free marketing for the skydiving company.
If you don’t think that there is a conspiracy regarding how our government is handling the existence of ETs and their craft, then you are part of the “whacked out freak show”
Sad, but oh so true! How niave to think that Human Beings are the only intellegent life in this galaxy... honestly have a little perspective folks... if you look at Earth from a galactic point of view, our planet is but a grain of sand on a Florida beach. WE ARE NOT ALONE! Mathmatically it's an impossibility.
Skydivers go down usually, these lights were doing somehting like a wing roll and hung there for some time. This can be done by synchronized toy helicopters though.
There is no way the lights are skydivers with pyrotechnics.
1. The lights output is too uniform to be from flares.
2. The descent rate on the video is way too small to be descending parachutests even under an open chute.
3. At one point the "object" pivots "away" from the camera and the leading light is blocked by "something" more than likely the object's fuselage/body.
That being said, just because it certainly doesn't look like a parachute team, doesn't mean it is from Andromeda...
3 miles bozo, your assumptions are false. They would be slow and uniform at that distance. And tree tops could explain your third point.
Here is all the proof needed for any debunkers of the parachute team theory:
09 28 2012 La Salle Football vs. Moeller
Earth has been, is being, and will always be visited by ET beings from other worlds if not other dimensions. This simply wasn't them.....this time.....
Peace and disclosure,
Jon in Omaha
Years ago I worked for a government aerospace contractor in Texas. We would fly Air Force KC-135 planes at night at low altitude to test new systems on board over Oklahoma. We were on a large aircraft with all the lights on, the gear and flaps down, the lights on inside and would fly at about 1000 feet. We had radio equipment on board to listen to all the law enforcement frequencies on the ground (it was customary to test those functions, as well) and you would not believe the number of UFO sightings that would be called in as we lumbered overhead at 200 miles per hour.
UFO sighting at WALMART. Say no more!
even though this may be just a skydiving show anyone who believes we are alone in this universe is an idiot. There has to be intelligent life out there because it sure as hell is lacking here.
There are billions upon billions of galaxies in the universe, each one containing billions of stars. Anything is possible. The one thing we can be confident of, however, is that we will never be in contact with them, nor they with us. The scales of distance and time are just too large.
Alien life out there somewhere-Yes, absolutely Alien UFO's visiting Earth-ridiculous
What interest would a civilization so technically advanced that it's capable of interstellar travel have in us? Even if it were curiosity they certainly would be able to avoid detection, if they wanted something from us they would simply take it (I don't know what that would be) and there is no conceivable way we could defend ourselves from such a civilization.
Rule One: If a UFO is seen at night, forget it. Rule Two: Giggling is not a component of the scientific method.
It was Obama Eyeballs cause the dumb negro knows his brown butt is getting flushed down the toilet in Nov like all brown turds should
Saw some chinese lanterns that were being lit all over the place down in the Outer Banks, NC this summer at night, pretty cool.
Now if only we had some convenient answers to some of those peskier cases like RAF Bentwaters and Lonnie Zamora Incident....hmmmmm
I don't know ca-ca from shineola about skydiving, but........Seems to me that's a long time to decend. Plus wouldn't it be extremely dangerous to use any type of pyro, to the jumper and folks on the ground ?
Hey John...have you NOT noticed that ALL but two comments have been deleted....so STFU!!!! NO one cares apparently what you have to say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!