Fireball UFOs over Ireland: Clever Hoax Or Unexplained Objects?
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A YouTube user, named Naktis Ireland, posted his video a few months after recording odd lights over Cork, Ireland, back in December.
Ireland uploaded the video on March 16, and it's only now starting to get some attention, according to Open Minds.
In the video, bright objects keep materializing in the sky and move in formation until they slowly seem to fall behind a group of trees, before another group of them appear out of thin air and do the same thing.
Many questions about the legitimacy of these UFOs are being raised by online commenters and a handful of photographic and special effects experts, who speculate on whether these are flares, balloons, lanterns or simply, unexplained.
Writing on YouTube, Ireland addressed concerns about the shakiness of his UFO video.
"I was afraid that they would disappear by the time I got my camera so instead, used a phone to record as much as possible."
Whitley Strieber, best-selling author of numerous books, suggests the Ireland UFOs could be sky lanterns or something else.
James Beeson, a web designer, doesn't give credible marks for the video.
"This event, if real, would surely have drawn not only media coverage, but also other videos from different locations."
A photographer and documentary cinematographer who prefers to be identified as Dan told Huffington Post in an email,
"The only other possibility I can think of is that these could have been little remote-controlled quad copters carrying bright lights."
Dan also pointed out the realistic manner in which the UFO-orbs seem to "diminish in brightness and size as they pass behind the tree, lampposts and bushes.
I imagine it would be possible to fake this detail only with considerable skill.” Naktis Ireland states on YouTube, "I never mentioned aliens. I said they are very bright, strange orbs that are unidentified which means that I cannot even say that they were lanterns because no such detail was seen.
Believe what you want to believe, anything is possible."