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Strange lights off the Outer Banks spark UFO debate: Was it aliens or the military?
MSN ^ | 10/04/2019 | Mark Price

Posted on 10/04/2019 7:43:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Commenters on YouTube are divided as to whether the lights are UFOs or just flares used by the military. The latter is plausible, given the proximity of the Outer Banks to multiple military facilities, including Camp Lejeune and Fort Bragg in Eastern North Carolina.

“I know what those lights are,” posted Derrick Chennault on YouTube. “As a former Marine based at the 2nd Marine Air Wing in Cherry Point, N.C. ... we used to regularly drop flares out of the back of our plane in the evenings for military exercises... Glad to see the Marines are still spooking people.”

Guy doesn’t appear to be completely convinced of that explanation.

“A lot of people I have talked to here on the island said it was flares, but they also said they have never seen anything like what I captured,” he wrote on YouTube. UFO? strange video of lights capture off the North Carolina coast

North Carolina is considered one of the most active places in the country for UFO reports, including an incident in November when a fisherman filmed two sets of lights floating off Cape Lookout National Seashore. National Park Service officials at Cape Lookout told the Charlotte Observer they were not sure what the lights were, but labeled them “peculiar.”

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: astronomy; flares; lights; northcarolina; outerbanks; paranoiaonfr; science; skepticultists; strangelights; ufo; ufos
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1 posted on 10/04/2019 7:43:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

As seen from the wheelhouse of the SS Californian


2 posted on 10/04/2019 7:47:07 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: BenLurkin

Does anyone realize HOW HARD that kind of space travel would be, if it was even possible!?!?!!

Star Trek isn’t the real world!!

So a society would have to progress in a straight line for MANY, MANY thousands of years without having to start over like China constantly did with a new emperor or if a war holocaust set the planet back to square one.

Or a meteor. Or a dead sun.

Or a million other things.

And it would have to be intelligent life

And....


3 posted on 10/04/2019 7:47:17 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: BenLurkin

they are out of formation supposed to be a Q /s


4 posted on 10/04/2019 7:48:02 PM PDT by rolling_stone (no justice no peace and leakers)
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To: Roccus

“Those rockets are just fireworks. Everybody hit your bunks and get some rack time.”


5 posted on 10/04/2019 7:51:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: dp0622
Consider alternative theory #58...it makes a lot of sense.


6 posted on 10/04/2019 8:14:34 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: DoodleBob

RBG, your nanoseconds are running out here, and it's almost time for you to return to your evil master.

7 posted on 10/04/2019 8:19:33 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: BenLurkin

Ben;

Looks a bit like an array of drones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOd4-T_p5fA

Or...

It could involve some weird air inversion or mirage. If parking lot lights on shore are transmitted and bent or mirrored back that might explain it.

https://atoptics.wordpress.com/category/air-mirages/

(has Pictures of the Green Flash!)

https://www.atoptics.co.uk/

Methane Gas/ball lightning?

Could be associated with a release of methane gas in the costal areas off of the Outer banks resulting in ball lightning?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Mx3g0JmQU Methane.

(I Would suggest that the leak from the hydrate would have to be substantial to make it to the surface!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4vV3KxQ16c

Some examples of multiple ball lightning!


8 posted on 10/04/2019 8:29:06 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

It’s the Saltwater Redneck.


9 posted on 10/04/2019 8:29:59 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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10 posted on 10/04/2019 8:39:14 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: BenLurkin

11 posted on 10/04/2019 8:47:32 PM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: BenLurkin

Dare County has a bombing range.

That is named from Virginia Dare for those interested in history.


12 posted on 10/04/2019 8:59:14 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: DoodleBob

Back around 1980 I read a long report on why UFOs and Aliens where fallen angels, or demons. As a relatively new Christian I thought it was Bionically solid and so shared it with a lost friend of mine who became furious with me. He really believed in them as some sort of saviors to humanity.

I find it interesting that in places like California, there are more and more reported sightings of these strange things, as our society tears itself apart.


13 posted on 10/04/2019 9:10:38 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord!)
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To: BenLurkin

I’ve seen flares first hand. Those look an awful lot like flares. There’s some kind of aviation maintenance depot just inland from Ocracoke Island... Bet it was a post maintenance checkout flight and they dropped some flares. I have personally been in Howard’s Pub on Ocracoke and talked to maintenance techs. They flew a chopper over for lunch as a checkout ride.


14 posted on 10/04/2019 9:31:29 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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15 posted on 10/04/2019 10:10:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: DoodleBob

Klaatu Barada Nikto.


16 posted on 10/04/2019 10:14:37 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: DoodleBob

How about ‘’dry cleaning bags filled with marsh gas’’.


17 posted on 10/04/2019 10:15:36 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: DoodleBob

Yup


18 posted on 10/04/2019 10:26:43 PM PDT by Salamander (I May Be Lonely But I'm Never Alone...And The Nights May Pass Me By...But I Never Cry...)
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To: DoodleBob

Oh demoncrats I get it


19 posted on 10/04/2019 10:49:28 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: BenLurkin

Definitely a flare event - there were similar events over the continental US during the past year - seems to be some sort of radar?FLIR masking technic usually done by larger planes.


20 posted on 10/05/2019 3:43:14 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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