It's a streetlamp.

Stratford-Upon-MUFON?

Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.

/Obvious

There MUST be a mundane explanation for this, and the countless other unexplainable incidents all over the earth. Anything but aliens. It HAS to be. My rigid thinking will not allow me to accept anything beyond my conceptions.

To think that we're the only living beings in this vast universe is farking lunacy.

I WANT TO BELIEVE!!

FarkinHostile

I wasn't commenting towards you - *sniff sniff* I smell the sarcasm:)

Why do UFO's hate America?

The caption says "Crows gathered to gawp...." WTF?

How do lanterns "break loose" and hover in formation?

/never seen flying lanterns before

i want to be leaf.

i want to de-brief.

/woo!

Hovering things? In the context of the largest helicopter rescue operation in British history? Inconceivable!

Theres not a single searchlight in the town that could be used to illuminate the object?

Whats far more interesting is the article about two lesbians who had babies via a drag queen.

Whos got odds on the orientation of the offspring?

I say one goes gay and the other straight.

Look at em all, standing and gawping

Looks like a flying bowl of dicks to me...

You want to be Leif.

There are five lights.

I don't understand the UFO issue. It hasn't been identified yet, it is in the sky, possibly flying, and most likely is an object of some sort.

Inconceivable!

You use that word a lot. I do not think it means what you think it means.

FTFA: "Sceptics dismissed the UFOs as nothing more than hot air balloons, fireworks or even lanterns which had broken loose from a local rugby club."

Oh come one, 5 hot air balloons at 10:30pm?

Jedoc: There are five lights.

I see what you did there captain.

Does anyone know what "scientific" explanation British ministry of UFO debunking has issued. I feel like laughing at all those who are closing their eyes and ears shut tight against anything that does not comes from the "truth" dispensers (MSM and Ministry of UFO Debunking)

has anyone mentioned streetlights yet?

Gawp?? WTF is that a word?

Jesus Christ!
It's UFO, get in the car!!!

3 G's: How do lanterns "break loose" and hover in formation?

/never seen flying lanterns before

Contrabulous Flabtraption
It depends on who is blowing them up.

This have anything to do with the flooding? I blame UFOs and their super duper space age fuel for global warming!

i need to relieve.

brb.

Old_Fark: Gawp?? WTF is that a word?

I think that's Hagrid's half brother.

Ooooo! Dots!

I'm totally convinced, now.

Aliens! Aliens with the technology to give me a new body. You'll be surprised when that pod opens up and out comes a Quaagarg woman with 6 breasts.

Midnight Quidditch over Warwickshire!

Jedoc: There are five lights.

THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!

Maybe it was time to pick up Camilla.

Is there alien life out there? Most likely. It's a big universe?

Did one of them fly millions of miles to Earth to hover over an English pub for 30 minutes?

Unlikely.

No one in a crowd of 30+ people out on the town was toting around a digital camera with a zoom worth a damn? Or a video mode? C'mon people...

Seems like there's been a lot of these in the news over the past few months.

I'm a UFO, and I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

If the wind is blowing the right way, you can't hear a helicopter, you just see the lights. Why they were hovering there, I don't know. Testing their night-vision goggles?

/in a dark room, a man lights his 50th cigarette of the day and smiles grimly

3 G's: How do lanterns "break loose" and hover in formation?

Don't know about the breaking loose part, but if they're moving upward, the lights will appear to converge and hover. The "formation" looks relatively random to me.

It's an atmospheric reflection of the lights from the cop cars that poulled over Lindsey Lohan this morning, obviously.

I'm usually a skeptic on such matters, but my wife and i saw something almost EXACTLY like this in the woods of southern indiana about 5 years ago.

Seriously, I'm getting sick of these intergalactic attention whores.

Enough with the "oooh, betcha you guys can't do this" light shows. Either land the middle of Washington D.C. and start harvesting or stfu already.

/btw, I hear Republicans are really tasty

Let's see...massive flooding all over England, thousands displaced, roads and bridges out all through the countryside. Medical planes/helicopters? Military flights? News copter?
Nah...must be Men From Outer Space!!!

They're just practicing for their big debut on 12/21/2012.

Hillary Potter from The British Earth Aerial Mystery Society (BEAMS) said they were being inundated with similar calls from across the country but said it was rare for such phenomena to be witnessed by so many people.

- heh, I read that as "Harry Potter"...would have brought a bit of more sense into this topic...sort of.