Orange Lights Over Longcommon Parkway In Elgin's Providence Subdivision Illinois

Date: August 14, 2010
Time: Approx: 9:30 p.m.

Saturday night (August 14, 2010) about 9:30 or so, my son and I were on my driveway on Longcommon Parkway in Elgin's Providence subdivision when I spotted an orange light in the sky traveling from the southwest, and moving northeast. As the first one faded out, a second one came into view, then it faded, and another one behind it.

 He thought it looked like fire as if someone was flying a hot air balloon. I didn't think so as flying hot air balloons at night would be suicidal. Maybe there was more of them and we only caught the last 3? It did appear to be flickering like a flame though, He took some pictures with his phone camera. Any speculation as to what we may have seen? Thanks.

Additional Information:

Found this website, this may explain what it was we saw. http://www.nightskylanterns.co.uk/products/sky-lanterns/white-traditional-sky-lanterns/

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