Wellington West Palm Beach UFO Sightings Were Probably Floating Lanterns Expert Says

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Newspaper Article.

By Mitra Malek

Posted Jan 3, 2011 at 12:01 AM

Updated Mar 31, 2012 at 8:46 AM

Glowing orange and red lights floated across parts of Florida’s sky New Year’s weekend, including in the Wellington and West Palm Beach areas, setting off a state of wonderment among witnesses.

But those UFOs weren’t so unidentified after all.

The drifting bulbs and streaks were probably floating lanterns, said Brian Vike, founder of the paranormal blog The Vike Factor, which fielded about 250 e-mails, 30 or so from Florida, noting the strange sightings worldwide.

“They’re all lit up and glowing,” Vike said. “They’ll go up and down and sideways, so it looks pretty weird.”

A woman and her fiancé saw two “red orange” lights float over them while taking a walk in Wellington around 6:55 p.m. Jan. 1, the blog showed.

A West Palm Beach resident saw four red lights “spread equally apart coming in from the south heading north” at about 10:30 p.m. on New Year’s Eve,, according to the blog.

Wellington resident Carol Coleman spotted a “reddish-orangish-yellowish” glow at perhaps 9:30 p.m. Jan. 1, but didn’t think much of it other than noting it was “strange.”

“It reminded me of the tails of the fireworks,” said Coleman, who didn’t write to The Vike Factor.

Massachusetts resident Brian Milne and his wife spotted similar floating orbs of red on New Year’s Eve in Fort Myers. The couple had a pretty good idea of what flew slowly above because they have set off paper lanterns in Cape Cod.

“If you don’t know what the thing is, you’re going to think it’s a UFO,” Milne said. “A couple of them up there gives it an eerie feel.”

The lanterns are often made of a flame-retardant paper, similar to a paper bag. In the opening, which faces the ground, a wire frame holds a candle. The flame heats the inside of the paper, making it glow like a lantern. The heat causes the lantern to rise, like a tiny hot air balloon, up to about 500 feet, Milne said.

When the flame dies and the bag cools, it floats back down.

Vike said he’s fairly certain people spotted floating lanterns over the weekend. In fact, many wrote to him later confirming it.

“There’s some good stuff out there that you can’t explain, but this is probably” the lanterns, Vike said.

The Palm Beach Post News - https://www.palmbeachpost.com/

The Newspaper Article - https://www.palmbeachpost.com/article/20110103/NEWS/812017798

Floating Orange Object Over St Catharine’s Ontario

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Date:  May 27, 2011

Time:  Mid-evening.

Hello, I live at Roehampton Ave., in St Catharine’s Ontario. On May 25th (mid-evening) my girlfriend and two friends (her cousin and his girlfriend), were outside on the balcony (facing due east), and observed an “orange-type orb” floating northwest.

She later described the object as being the size of a basketball and had reddish stuff dangling from it. She rushed into the apartment and said “come quick honey, you got to see this!” Unfortunately, by the time I came out to the balcony it was going around the other side of the building.

My girlfriend and her two friends rushed-out of the apartment, into the hallway, to try and further observe the object. I eagerly followed. We got to the window in the hallway, which faces northwest. I saw a little reddish orb in the distance, travelling north, approximately a hundred-feet or so from the ground and a few miles out.

The object in the distance quickly disappeared within roughly 30 seconds. I can’t say exactly what this orb shape was, but it was definitely out-of-this world! P.S. If you would like my girlfriends email or whatever, just let me know and I’ll get it for you

Thank you to the witness for the report.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at houstonbri7@gmail.com with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

File your UFO sighting to Brian at: houstonbri7@gmail.com

Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: houstonbri7@gmail.com

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Floating Campfire Colored Objects In The Sky Over Jacksonville Florida

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Date:  October 2010 and July 4, 2011

Time:  8:45 p.m.

Number of witnesses: 2

Number of Objects: 1

Shape of Objects: Floating fireball.

Full Description of Event/Sighting: I have actually had two encounters of this kind. The first time was in October. My boyfriend and I were just getting out of my car, I was waiting for him to take our baby’s car seat out when I looked up.

I saw what appeared to be a floating "campfire" traveling fairly low in the sky. It was moving slow enough for us to watch it for a minute or two before it zoomed toward the southwest. We had not seen anything like that before, and it was not until a few weeks ago that we saw it again.

On the fourth of July, we went out to Jacksonville beach to watch the fireworks with our child. I happened to look up and see the same kind of floating fire that we had witnessed before. At first I thought it could have been from the fireworks, but it was going the opposite direction the wind was blowing.

I pointed it out to my boyfriend and he was amazed to see it again also. I have tried researching it, but I have only found a Will-o'-the-wisps for a matching description, and neither time was around a marsh.

Thank you to the witness for the report.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at houstonbri7@gmail.com with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

File your UFO sighting to Brian at: houstonbri7@gmail.com

Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: houstonbri7@gmail.com

The Vike Factor Blog.

Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.

Circular Balls Of Fire Floating In The Sky At The Eastern Side Of Windsor Ontario

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Date:  October 31, 2011

Time:  11:00 p.m.

Number of witnesses: 2

Number of Objects: 40

Shape of Objects: Circle.

Full Description of Event/Sighting: My husband and I were smoking in the backyard when we saw these circular balls of fire floating in the sky. They were flying from the west to the east. They were flying in a straight line and would disappear into no where.

These objects looked like balls of fire.

Thank you to the witness for the report.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at houstonbri7@gmail.com with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

File your UFO sighting to Brian at: houstonbri7@gmail.com

Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: houstonbri7@gmail.com

The Vike Factor Blog.

Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.

4 Floating Glowing Spheres/Lights Change Direction Over Calgary Alberta

Date:  September 20, 2014
Time:  Evening.

Saw 4 last night in Calgary, Alberta. 3 at first then another. Glowing spheres seemed to be floating at first but then changed direction and sped up.

No noise, reminded me of hot air balloons in a way with constant glow.

If anyone has witnessed the lights/objects, please send me an email with details of what you saw. Please remember to include the date and time and location. (Town/City – State or Province) and as much detail as possible.

Brian Vike.
Box 1091
Houston, British Columbia, Canada.

Email: sighting@telus.net or b_vike@telus.net
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Yellow/Red Colored Object Floating In The Sky East Of Napenee Ontario

 Date:  June 18, 2014
Time:  Approx: 8:30 p.m.

Brian Vike, seen it about a half an hour ago, approximately 5km east of Napenee, Ontario, on Hwy 2. I was on my way back from the store. At first I thought it was an aircraft warning light on a tower.

I got close to it as it was like it was floating above a few homes in the area. I pulled off the road and watched it. It looked to be the size of a basketball, and the colors (yellowish core, encased by red) where much more sharp, bright and defined compared to your picture. Bright like a flare.

But I can assure you that's not what it was. A flare descends. This thing floated horizontally like a bubble from a bubble maker. First I seen anything like that.

Unfortunately I didn't have a camera, but I know what I saw, and will never forget it. It was pretty freak in cool. Funny thing, a string of cars passed me by when I was pulled over watching it, and none of them slowed or even stopped. People up here have tunnel vision at night I guess.

Anyway, figured I'd let you know what I saw, if your tracking this stuff.

Brian Vike.
Box 1091
Houston, British Columbia, Canada.

Email: sighting@telus.net
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4 Triangular Shaped Orange Lights Floating In The Sky Over Montreal Quebec

 Date:  June 14, 2014
Time:  Approx: 10:50 p.m.

I saw the same 4 triangular shaped orange lights floating in the sky last night June 14, 2014.

They floated to each other and than they all disappeared?

It was around 10:50 p.m., very strange!

Brian Vike.
Box 1091
Houston, British Columbia, Canada.

Email: sighting@telus.net
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Witnesses Stopped Vehicles To Watch UFO Float Around In The Sky Over Smithers British Columbia

 (From Brian Vike’s UFO Files) Re-posted by Brian.

Date: 2001
Time: Approx: 12:00 a.m.

I will start when I first noticed a UFO, way back in 2001.

It was the Summer time and I was coming home from my grandmother's house on Slack road in Smithers, B.C.. I noticed the bright white light in the sky immediately after departing my grandmothers house, and assumed that it was a large star or satellite.

When I got to the bottom of the hill, I realized that light was very bright and close, so I slowed down. By the time I reached highway 16, I was by the golf course and I had pulled over behind a truck who was also watching this thing.

I can describe why I ruled a plane flying by. I called the airport to find out if an medevac or any flights were due to arrive, and there weren't any.

The couple that was standing on the hill with me, thought that maybe it was a meteor, but it just floated in one spot. It was very close. I went home and told my husband, he laughed and said that I needed some sleep. It was almost midnight.

Thank you to the witness for the report.

 If people have seen unusual lights or strange craft in the sky over British Columbia, Canada, please drop me a line and I will get your sighting report to a group for investigation. (Email: sighting@telus.net)

Brian Vike (Retired)
Box 1091
Houston, British Columbia, Canada.

Email: sighting@telus.net

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Three Orange Globes Floating In Formation In The Sky Over Sooke Vancouver Island British Columbia (Picture - Case Solved – Chinese Lanterns)

Date:  March 16, 2013

Time:  Evening (Approx: 10:45 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.)

I was leaving a party last night and I looked up at the sky and saw three orange globes floating in formation and traveling in the same direction towards the west.

I managed to take a picture, but I only captured two of the three.

My name is (name removed) and I live in Sooke, B.C. I will send photo in next email.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting.

All personal information is kept confidential.

Also, please feel free to send in your sightings that have happened years ago. So many of these older sightings are nothing short of amazing.

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4 Glowing Orange Lights Floating In The Sky Over English Bay Vancouver British Columbia

Date:  February 12, 2013
Time:  Around 9:35 p.m. - 10:15 p.m.

I was just settling in last night around 9:35 p.m. - 10:15 p.m. I received a text from my partner that has an unobstructed view of English Bay (Pendrall and Denman ) where as I live at ( Cardero and Davie ).

We where watching 4 glowing orange orbs floating moving in various directions and seemingly blinking on and off.

This was the only related information I found online to substantiate what I was seeing. 

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Also, please feel free to send in your sightings that have happened years ago. So many of these older sightings are nothing short of amazing.

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Object In The Sky Looked Like Floating Lava/Orange In Color From YVR Vancouver B.C. International Airport

Date:  January 1, 2013
Time:  Approx: 9:15 p.m.

Hi Brian, around 9:15 p.m. I was actually northbound on an airplane and saw this blobish like floating lava.

I figured it may have been Mount Baker, but then at 9:35 p.m. just as I arrive at YVR I saw it in a distance.

I'm very curious.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Also, please feel free to send in your sightings that have happened years ago. So many of these older sightings are nothing short of amazing.

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Two Floating Triangular Shaped UFOs Over Cobourg Ontario

Date:  2007
Time:  Evening.

Hi there, I'd like to share my UFO sighting with you. 5 years ago when I was 15 years old, along Elgin Street in Cobourg (Elgin & Ontario St. to be precise). I saw two strange "floating" crafts.

They were triangle in shape with a light at each point, and one in the centre.

One was hovering above the Mill, on the NE side of the street, and the other was hovering over the SW corner of the intersection. They were hovering just above the tree lines and were massive, but oddly there was no noise.

I am just seeing some similar videos to what I saw and it's something called TR3B - which is supposedly a new military aircraft being tested. As I was only 15 I did not have a camera phone to take a picture of it, but I have found a video showing exactly what I saw in another location!

The only thing I can't figure out is, I've only read speculation that this is a USA craft using alien technology, what is it doing up in Canada (and far from any of the States military test facilities).

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Also, please feel free to send in your sightings that have happened years ago. So many of these older sightings are nothing short of amazing.

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7 Or 8 Bright Floating Objects Seen Flying Over Vancouver British Columbia

Date:  August 12, 2012
Time:  Daytime sighting.

Hi there, on Sunday August 12, 2012 in the afternoon in Vancouver I saw what looked like bright floating stars. There were about seven or eight of them.

It was pretty strange since it was broad daylight and they looked so bright. Has anyone else seen this?

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

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Bright Floating Red/Orange Lights Seen In The Sky Over Burlington Ontario

Date:  July 28, 2012
Time:  10:20 p.m.

From my driveway near North Shore Blvd and King Road in Burlington, Ontario I stepped out of the car and looked up at the moon to see two bright lights beneath it, which I thought might be planets, but soon noticed they were moving.

Then I saw about 4 or 5 more of them approach from the north at roughly 30 second intervals heading southward over the bay, and I lost sight of them as they disappeared over the trees.

I ran inside to get my video camera and saw 2 more when I came back out. Unfortunately my video footage is really just your classic shaky and blurry footage of what could be anything.

My mother saw them too. They were silent, most of them were red-orange, but I think there was one distinctly yellow one. At first I thought they might be Chinese lanterns, but they were gliding horizontally really fast, not floating like Chinese lanterns.

They looked like balls of fire. The only rational explanation I can think of is that they were people hang-gliding with flares. I've never seen anything like this before.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

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3 Floating Orange Lights Spotted In The Sky Over Burlington Ontario

Date:  July 9, 2012
Time:  11:16 p.m.

Hi, I was just on-line researching the orange glowing orb sightings as I just witnessed 3 of them floating past Burlington, Ontario about a half hour ago which would have made it 11:16 p.m. EDT July 9, 2012. 

They were heading east to west out over the lake, and by their nature you could discern that they were definitely not any type of flying craft we are used to seeing especially since they were orbs of bright orange light that floated more than flew. 

They headed toward Hamilton and then disappeared. This is a first for me as I have never before seen any UFOs.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

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Red/Orange Lights Floating In The Sky Over Long Point Ontario

Date:  July 21, 2012
Time:  Evening.

So I was at a cottage in Long Point, Ontario this past weekend (July 21st 2012) with some friends. We were all sitting around the campfire having a few drinks, when out of no where we saw these orange/red lights floating in the sky.

I almost want to call them orbs, they glowed all around themselves and for how far away they were they looked huge. They were floating in a clearing between some trees in the sky above the marsh.

One of them slowed down and stopped right in front of us (while still being far away) and the other one stopped to let that one catch up.

They both just hovered there for a while as we stared at them in awe. The last I saw of them they went down, and behind some trees. I thought it was really crazy, the only thing we could come up with was UFO's, because no plane is that big or moves like that and it was brighter than any star or satellite.

It didn't make any noise either. So I looked this up online, and found your post, which I think confirms a few things for me. It's also crazy because it was almost exactly a year after this posts sighting, and around the same time.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

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Floating Flame Like Object Over Brampton Ontario

 

Date:  June 22, 2012

Time:  9:45 p.m.

 

Number of witnesses: 2

Number of Objects: 1

Shape of Objects: Round.

 

Full Description of Event/Sighting: My husband when to let the dog out, he saw this object in the sky and listened, when he heard nothing he realized this is not a typical object.

 

Quickly he banged on the window to get my attention. I went out and he asked me what I thought it was. at First it was floating so I said it looks like a balloon with a light in it.

 

Then we noticed it was traveling in a steady path at the same height from north to south. From Sandlewood Pkway towards Bovaird. Very low not more than 500 meters high.

 

It appeared to be a clear ball with a flickering Flame at times it looked like there was a energy tail. We kept looking outside to see if we could see it again. I have Googled lots of searches and it appears to be something that has been spotted many times in the same area around the same time of night.

Can't explain it; therefore, a UFO. But it was not a plane and not a spot light it was definitely a ball of some sort of energy. I have officially seen something with my own eyes that I can not explain.

 

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

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40 Circular Balls Of Fire Floating In The Sky At The Eastern Side Of Windsor Ontario

 

Date:  October 31, 2011

Time:  11:00 p.m.

 

Number of witnesses: 2

Number of Objects: 40

Shape of Objects: Circle.

 

Full Description of Event/Sighting: My husband and I were smoking in the backyard when we saw these circular balls of fire floating in the sky. They were flying from the west to the east. They were flying in a straight line and would disappear into no where.

 

These objects looked like balls of fire.

 

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Floating Orange Object Over St Catharine’s Ontario

 

Date:  May 27, 2011

Time:  Mid-evening.

 

Hello, I live at Roehampton Ave., in St Catharine’s Ontario. On May 25^th (mid-evening) my girlfriend and two friends (her cousin and his girlfriend), were outside on the balcony (facing due east), and observed an “orange-type orb” floating northwest.

She later described the object as being the size of a basketball and had reddish stuff dangling from it. She rushed into the apartment and said “come quick honey, you got to see this!” Unfortunately, by the time I came out to the balcony it was going around the other side of the building.

My girlfriend and her two friends rushed-out of the apartment, into the hallway, to try and further observe the object. I eagerly followed. We got to the window in the hallway, which faces northwest. I saw a little reddish orb in the distance, travelling north, approximately a hundred-feet or so from the ground and a few miles out.

The object in the distance quickly disappeared within roughly 30 seconds. I can’t say exactly what this orb shape was, but it was definitely out-of-this world! P.S. If you would like my girlfriends email or whatever, just let me know and I’ll get it for you

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

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Formation Of Floating Lights Over Inter River Park North Vancouver British Columbia

Date: January 8, 2011

Time: Approx: 7:15 p.m.

Tonight, January 8, 2011, at approximately 7:15 pm my neighbor and I saw strange unidentified objects in the sky about Inter River Park in North Vancouver, British Columbia. There were six objects flying/floating in formation equal distance apart with a larger object trailing behind them all.

The objects were like nothing we have ever seen before and there was no sound of engines or power. The objects were like lanterns and they flickered. My neighbor said there was, like a flickering flame. The eventually flew (slowly) up behind the cloud cover and we could not see them.

The sighting was approximately 4 minutes. Very strange, I have no idea what we saw. The longer we stared at them the more startled/confused we were.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

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