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PatrickLondon Jan 17th, 2010 07:09 AM

Mysterious object sighted in the skies over London
 
Big golden-yellow/orange glowing sort of thing. It's been giving out light all day.

Our best minds are baffled.

Surfergirl Jan 17th, 2010 07:12 AM

??? Give us a link!

azzure Jan 17th, 2010 07:17 AM

Saw one of those yesterday over Seattle. It disappeared after about five minutes, though.

Surfergirl Jan 17th, 2010 07:18 AM

Ahh, just thinking -- you must have had a sunny day!

PatrickLondon Jan 17th, 2010 07:19 AM

Nope, definitely there all day, azzure. People were quite giddy with it. Some of them weren't even wearing hats.

Surfergirl Jan 17th, 2010 07:21 AM

Yep, had to be the sun. I know it's an oft hidden sight in London, PatrickLondon, but I can assure you, it exists.

flygirl Jan 17th, 2010 07:23 AM

hahahaha

annw Jan 17th, 2010 07:31 AM

Please send it back to California.

annhig Jan 17th, 2010 07:31 AM

so hot here [cornwall] I was gardening in just my t-shirt. [well, not quite, i had wellies on as well!]

I can remember t-shirt weather here before in february, but never before in Jan.

who'd have thought it?

MelJ Jan 17th, 2010 08:06 AM

You can thank central Ohio. We took your fog.

flanneruk Jan 17th, 2010 11:24 AM

The disc's been following us all over southern England all day.

But don't get excited. Snow's coming back round here on Wed night

Viajero2 Jan 17th, 2010 11:41 AM

Refraction of Light (bending) as it passes from one medium to another with different densities would create that sort of effect when observed at a certain angle.

PatrickLondon Jan 21st, 2010 04:42 AM

It's back again.

Not unpleasant, but unnervingly unfamiliar.

hetismij Jan 21st, 2010 05:20 AM

Can you send it over the North Sea please?

alanRow Jan 21st, 2010 08:43 AM

<<< so hot here [cornwall] I was gardening in just my t-shirt. >>>

No trousers? But what happened a week ago Cornwall folk were going in to their freezers to get warm

Palenque Jan 21st, 2010 08:46 AM

reminds me of a conversation i overheard in the Sidcup Police station once - a copper was on the phone taking a report from some Aussie about things that were stolen from him - cop asked what things were stolen and then when the cop repeated 'sunglasses' he added 'what did you bring them for?'

flanneruk Jan 21st, 2010 09:00 AM

Hmm...

It was about Dec 20 when we got the first snow. And since then, the fields have been constantly white and iron-hard - but the air's been astonishingly dry.

Till this morning. Back to our familiar mud, mist and damp breezes (and that's just in the utility room). Completely forgotten what winters were: probably the first full month of freeze since 1963.

Missing it already in a funny sort of way.

gertie3751 Jan 21st, 2010 09:02 AM

I arrive tomorrow. Can you hang onto it until then?

Palenque Jan 21st, 2010 09:04 AM

The Sun Never Rises on the British Empire (the U.K.) it seems?

Cholmondley_Warner Jan 21st, 2010 10:03 AM

so hot here [cornwall] I was gardening in just my t-shirt. [well, not quite, i had wellies on as well!]>>>

Were you in the WI calendar?


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