Note: Ray has posted another possible answer on our Facebook page.
A friend living in the Eastlake area reports she and two others saw beautiful floating globes of light over either Maple Leaf or Green Lake last week.
“We were leaving the moorage where I lived, and saw perhaps 8 of these beautiful golden orbs floating in the sky… No sound came from them and they seemed erratic in their movements….”
It was about 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 29.
Our sister site My Wallingford posted in November about a memorial at Gas Works Park that involved sky lanterns – an Asian tradition involving airborne paper lanterns heated by candles. The photo at right, from Matthew McSheehy’s Photography, appeared in the My Wallingford post.
Anybody know what was going on last Thursday night?
We saw several of these just to the east of us when we went down to Maple Leaf Park to see the New Years’ fireworks. I thought they were a great way to start the new year.
I read about lanterns like this in Encyclopedia Brown books when I was a kid, but had never seen them in person til now.
Unless, that is, these were alien spacecraft cleverly disguised as lanterns.