A report of several bright light UFO's over the Southaven skies, Mississippi, USA was doing the rounds on most UFO and even some main-stream media outlets over the past few days.
"UFO Sightings Weekly" did not report this as it was obvious these were Chinese Lanterns, as most reports of bright orbs floating in the night sky probably are.
Now, a Southaven woman says she and her family members were responsible
for the bright, yellow lights above their neighborhood that were mistaken for UFOs Sunday night.
Wanda Bell said she and several relatives set off 15 to 20 sky
lanterns outside her house on Charter Oak Drive to celebrate the lives
of loved ones they’ve lost over the last few years. She found out a day
or two later someone had mistaken them for UFOs
“I thought it was joke but then I laughed because my daughter said
it. She said, ‘What you bet somebody is gonna say they saw UFOs,'” said
Bell
David Howell, who lives about four streets away on Bridgewater,
spotted the lights late Sunday night when he went to get something out
of his car. Struck by their formation, he began recording the lights on
his cell phone and called his father outside to take a look. His video
has since received some international attention.
“Everything went through my mind. Is this UFOs or aliens?” said Howell.
Howell and his father said they knew the lights were too large to be drones and said they appeared to be dancing in the sky.
While Bell doesn’t believe in UFOs, she said she can understand why
the paper lanterns might have been mistaken for something else.
“When we released them and like I said, we were in awe because of the
way they just lined up and they just floated and they went higher than
we thought,” Bell said. “That might be why they thought that, because
they went way up and you can see it was just the beautiful bright yellow
light like a star.”
Howell said, on the one hand, he’s relieved to know the source of
those lights, but he’s a little disappointed it wasn’t an encounter of
another kind.
“It’s okay. That’s good. Maybe we are alone,” said Howell.
Howell said after he recorded the lights he put it all over his
social media accounts hoping he would hear from someone else who saw the
lights or could explain what he saw.
