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Re:UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation by sockgrant on Monday November 12, 2018 @08:38PM (#18437682)
Had that same feeling years ago. Went out to a dark place to see the stars. Ended up seeing a light jumping around on the horizon. Then there was a bright white flash that lit up the whole field and forest, but not like lightning. No shadows, no source of light. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, no thunder. It wasn't lightning.

Pretty scared, I kept watching the jumping light on the horizon. A few minutes later the white flash again. I ran back to my car.

I had the same ridiculous thoughts as you. "what if they know I saw?"

It freaked me out for a long time. The way the light was moving.... Too fast to see the movement even, it was here, then there. I watched it bounce around for at least a full half hour, it wasn't a satellite or a meteor.

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Re:UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation by chris1993 on Monday November 12, 2018 @09:31PM (#18437954)
Similar lights in the Australian desert appear related to inversion layers refracting headlights over the horizon (http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s818193.htm)
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Re:UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation by sockgrant on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:47AM (#18439143)
Interesting. I suppose that's possible. It was a single light and it was changing colors. Its movement tended to stay within a specific range.

Do you have any thoughts on the white flashes? They were the scary part. Everything was perfectly daytime for a split second, and there was no fading of the light like with lightning. It was immediately all white then immediately dark again. It creeps me out thinking about it.

The light on the horizon seemed 50 miles away, but the flash was right on us, extremely bright, and blanketed everything evenly.

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Re:UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation by midrus on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:18AM (#18439029)
That's what the Men in Black would say.
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Re:UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation by jmts on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @04:48PM (#18445224)
Or in this case (if you check the researcher's surname), the Ministry of Magic.
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Re:UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation by mrleinad on Monday November 12, 2018 @08:47PM (#18437731)
Saw a similar light when I was a child, my brothers saw it too. But this one was right above our heads in the sky, and there was no flash when it disappeared. Bounced from one place to another, and it was really far away, so we are talking hundreds of kilometers in a second. Never forgot about it.
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Re:UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation by sockgrant on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:52AM (#18439165)
Dang. That's scary.

While I was watching I started out in awe feeling like "holy crap, I'm looking at a UFO!" But after staring at it for a long time and then having the white flashes I quickly changed to "oh fuck, I'm near a UFO".

I was with someone, they were very scared, too.

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Re:UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation by mrleinad on Friday November 16, 2018 @10:52AM (#18469488)
Was about 10 years old, and the thing was just a bit brighter than the stars. Wasn't scary, it was exciting to see at the moment.
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Re:UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation by LyndsySimon on Monday November 12, 2018 @11:51PM (#18438682)
Check out "Iridium flares" - they sound a lot like you've described, including coming in pairs.
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Re:UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation by sockgrant on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:40AM (#18439119)
Got a good video of one? I watched one and it wasn't similar to what I saw.
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Re:UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation by eeZah7Ux on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @06:13AM (#18440142)
Not at all. They don't jump around and are not extremely bright.
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Re:UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation by cr1895 on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @04:55AM (#18439857)
Sounds like the Marfa lights in the west Texas high desert:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfa_lights

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