Learning to fly Sky Lanterns

[aaronldyess]

Our quest to reach out and connect with one another is the same quest that all beings in the Universe have or will eventually set out to accomplish. Why else would we pump billions of dollars into the search for ET's? I type this message because I am a rational thinker. It makes no sense that we are the only intelligent being in this universe and the quicker we as a human race accepts the possibility that we are not alone, the quicker we can work together to improve our way of life.

[aaronldyess]

Also, if we were proven with hard evidence that UFO's exist and there are other forms of intelligent life, then the existence of ET's in our universe should not cause any religious person dismiss the belief in God. In my opinion, God is too powerful to limit Himself to the creation of one intelligent being in the universe. He created us just as He created the ET's.

[aaronldyess]

When it comes to the thought of whether ET's exist, there is nothing our world should be scared of. If a race of advanced beings(advanced enough to travel so far to get here) were undoubtedly our enemy, they would have the power to eliminate us easily with no chance to defeat them. Otherwise they would never even try, being the intelligent beings they are. The fact is, if they are visiting us, they must be here for a different reason, maybe to help us or simply study us.

[QueenReigns1]

So how many incidents have you heard about where someone has been harmed by a flying lantern?

[eliz7212]

IT TOOK LONG ENOUGH TO LET THEM GO!!

[superj881]

all those days........

[FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7]

my neighbor was lighting these think the other night and one landed b a house

[Siobaras]

One question pops to mind : Who cleans the universe?

[rob741258]

Question: What happens if a lantern enters a cloud? Will the flame always go out? OR will it stay alight?

[courtneymg93]

I'm really excited. My boyfriend and I are doing this for my 18th birthday as a good luck to adulthood and starting my new life in college. =)

[thecrazemenchannel]

UFOS LOL

[HunterMeatEater]

new terrorist bombs when they come down they explode on whatever they land on lol

[beratalbania]

@HunterMeatEater hahahah lol

[OneStudPuppy]

Awesome, I would like to get some of these. Send some up in memorial of my family.

[Billbobaker]

Perfectly safe if used responsibly and bio degradable as well.

[james58390]

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency says coastguards and lifeboats are sent out needlessly. In 2010 the agency recorded 1,500 flare incidents, of which 500 were believed to be false alarms caused by lanterns, while the CAA says they also pose danger to landing aircraft.

[james58390]

Crops are also at risk; last summer in Oxfordshire, a blaze from a lantern destroyed 2.5 hectares of barley. Litter is also a problem, said the NFU: "The people releasing lanterns wouldn't dream of dumping rubbish, but that's what is happening."

[james58390]

Civil Aviation Authority wants a ban on the sale of the sky lanterns, which are paper and wire hot air balloons fuelled by a naked flame. "People have no control where they land," said Nick von Westenholz, government affairs adviser for the NFU. Dorset and Somerset fire service said it had seen a sharp increase in lantern fires in the past year. Farmers say cows suffer stomach damage from eating the wire of fallen lanterns.

[QueenReigns1]

I see some people condemning these lanterns as being dangerous.

Like so many other things..cars/guns/knives etc, they are only dangerous in the hands of a maniac or an idiot.

Use your brain..follow the instructions and they are perfectly safe

[allprotravis]

@QueenReigns1 ...that was the dumbest argument I've ever seen. Even an idiot has control over a car/gun/knife. Fucking Einstein can't keep a floating fire from going where the wind takes it.

[QueenReigns1]

I can't believe that on a video about Flying lanterns there are idiots having an argument about the word Knob/Nob.

Is there a connection between lanterns and knobs that that I don't know about ?

[SmoothTrance]

..i like nob

[KidCaptainCoolout]

I saw 6 of em go up last night at a concert in Tennessee & they went so far that they looked like stars almost, it was awesome. The weather was hot and very still. No breeze what so ever.

Today i bought 2 of them & the temp was the same as it was last nite but, there was a slight breeze that you couldn't tell was in the air, until the Lantern reached 50 feet or so. In both cases, the Lantern lifted off smoothly & then came down after traveling 5 minutes. Very unlike what i saw last nite.

[dazlia2]

"how to fly a sky lantern" ?????

Simple, you light the fucking thing and let go of the fucker, how.fucking simple is that?

Why do silly cunts like you bother making 'tutorial videos' for something that fucking clearly doesn't need one! Are you that sad, lonely and fucking bored that you have to 'invent' a problem which doesn't exist just so that you can solve it lolol

Tossed!

[ScarFace9797]

@dazlia2 why did you have to say that. just shut your mouth. Get a life.

[dazlia2]

@ScarFace9797

who the fuck opened your box and let you out? lol I said i becuase i wanted to say it so shut the fuck up, take your dads cock out of your ass and listen up............

ITS A FREE FUCKING WORLD !!

WANKER!

[dazlia2]

@ScarFace9797

P.S I just looked at your videos that you've 'uploaded' and theres one called ......

"Woman Farts Loud!!"

That just shows what a sad little bastard you are! loloollol

muppet!

[ScarFace9797]

@dazlia2 oh ok shut up and continue licking your moms anal warts.

[PyroIsAwsome]

@dazlia2 you have no life. why did u watch this video if youu already knew how to light sky lanterns u dick licking piece of shit.

[spacemanspiff33]

@dazlia2 Honestly? just browsing videos and seeing your comment here makes me think of what a sad little bastard YOU are..... :( Really....who checks peoples uploads, then comments on them in a petty fashion in the middle of an internet argument on someone ELSES video? Come now, children....

[dazlia2]

@spacemanspiff33

And who (obvioulsy you) bothers to look at all the other comments on other peoples videos llolol

So your a sad little cunt lolool

Now, unless you have anything amusing or useful to say then i suggest you shut the fuck up, grow up and remove your tiny little penis from your pedophile dad's arse!!

WANKER!

[spacemanspiff33]

@dazlia2 You ever see that picture about arguing on the internet?? Youve obviously got time on your hands, you should google it. And who DOESNT read comments....nob......

[dazlia2]

@spacemanspiff33

Your the KNOB (notice how i actually spelt it correctly because unlike you I had an education you sad fucker)!

Yes people read comments but unliek you they dont start trawling other videos to see what other comments a particular person has made on other videos! SAD LITTLE NERDY BASTARD! lol

Anyway, you go back to day dreaming about being a fucking astronaut Mr Spaceman lolololol What a fucking sad little muppet you are!

Wake up, grow up, and shut the fuck up lol TWAT!

[spacemanspiff33]

@dazlia2 Congratulations! If I was referring to a door knob, you would be correct! Unfortunately, nob is simply a slang term (and is even in webster's dictionary!). Also unfortunate is while you took utmost care with spelling the word 'knob' correct (in your own mind)...the rest of your comment is atrocious (when it comes to spelling and grammar..) but heres a star *

As well....I was only referring to your comment in THIS video....YOU are the one perusing other videos on peoples accounts...sad.

[dazlia2]

@spacemanspiff33

urbandictionary dott com

1. Slightly less harsh term for the male anatomy than pecker or dick.

2. Also can be used as a term similar to goof, tool or moron.

1. I went to the Yukon during the winter and almost froze my knob when I took a whiz outside after the party.

2.Dude, did you hear Bill locked the keys in his car again - what a knob!

[dazlia2]

@spacemanspiff33

now whos the fucking KNOB! lol KNOB!

[spacemanspiff33]

@dazlia2 Yes because if it's in urbandictionary it MUST be correct. Again, nob is in Webster's, so my level of education here is beside the point. Stop skirting around the *fact* that:

a.) Everything I have already said is true, and

b.) You are a sad little boy with no life.

I'm sure you will spend 45 minutes coming up with a response to this, and visiting other websites as 'sources' ........so here's your star in advance *

[spacemanspiff33]

@dazlia2 And just for fun....

From urbandictionary dott com....

nob 337 up, 59 down A derogatory term for an individual or slang for a penis. Can also be used as a verb as slang for sexual intercourse.

1. That guy is such a nob!

2. Did you here, Bob nobbed that girl last night?

Case in point - urbandictionary is all over the place.

[Olphus]

UFOs!

[yurusan]

good

[Maverick747uk]

learning to fly................good god how thick to u think we are...its not the bloody wright brothers flying for the first time??????????u just let go of the damn things

[eqtworld]

Some kids launched one of those in my neighborhood when I was young. There was too much wind and the balloon was tilted sideways, the whole thing caught on fire and landed on my parents house; it burned the house to the ground : (

[NoogahOogah]

Heh. Sure.

[bootifulbeck]

they are really dangourous they nearly burnmt me it was horrible never buy them they could land in someones treee

[candoduck]

bull shit

[Maverick747uk]

i agree mine set fire to the neighbours conservatory........awful dangerous things

[BlinkWinkel]

@Maverick747uk Yeah... mine went up maybe 20 meters, then started to go down landing on a treetop and setting it on fire. Luckily I was able to climb the tree and put the fire out, but yeah this thing is a real fire hazard...

[SpeedStickAbuse]

@BlinkWinkel That's a load of crap.

[BlinkWinkel]

@SpeedStickAbuse No it's not. I tried like 5 of them, they all went up a few meters, then started to go down and crash into something. Those things are real fire hazard. I am guessing they might only work in areas with very low humidity.

[SpeedStickAbuse]

@BlinkWinkel I've flown them in Georgia without any problems. Try a different design.

[BlinkWinkel]

@SpeedStickAbuse The design I tried is identical to the one in this video. I imported them from Japan since they don't sell any where I live (and now I know why). But since I live in a region with a lot of humidity, I am guessing that is the problem.

[tubofbologna]

arent those hugely dangerous? i mean cant they land on someone's house and burn it down!

[wolfiesmith1966]

No, they are higher than a house within seconds of 'launching' and they keep going up while the flame is burning.

They will only come down, or 'land', when the flame has died so there's no flame to burn anything.

[MikeAKATheBoss]

Think about this man. They only go up BECAUSE there is a fire making hot air. They WILL NOT go down if there is a fire. SO they only go down once the fire is out.

[dzine3d]

@MikeAKATheBoss Check out a video called "Indonesian Sets Sky Lantern World Record" where you will see them set the world record for number of lanterns launched AND most balls of fire falling from the sky at the same time!

[peaceoutyomama1]

look at da video dumbass!

[spreadthehate]

ok i wonder how fast will these things travel in the air by wind,cause yesterday me and my friend where smoking some stuff outside in the middle of the night,and we saw 4 of those things fly,but i dont believe it was sky lanterns,cause they fly way to fast,it wasnt an airplane or a heli,otherwise i would hear it,maby it was a sky lanter but i dont believe they go about 200 mph in the wind ???? weird

[yhettiprinceJR]

you guys are stupid they dont look like aliens and they were used by the terrorists in ww2 look it up its acutally interesting

[fayik123]

these could be dangerous to GA aviation

[Username28469]

wow those look exactly like the ufo reports in mexico lol..... musta been those

[8tot4xz9e]

sky lanterns only last for a short period of time, they cannot do damage.

unless they are not flame proof paper than they can catch fire to objects yet again that is impossible as they burn up very quickly, all fire lanterns are safety standards otherwise they wouldn't be sold.

[fodsaks]

...And they land on a roof three streets away, burning the house down and killing a family of 5.

[apomarkkos]

Heat which is lighter than air makes these lanterns fly, it ascends continually until the source of heat (flame) is exhausted, heat will then be of course extinguished and gone which would cool the lanterns down and would make it to descend without the presence of flame. Once flame is still present the lantern wouldn't descend.

[Razimus]

These chinese flying lanterns are what the phoenix lights were, for those that don't know, a neighbor of the guy who created the original phoenix lights hoax saw the guy releasing the lanterns this year, he tied them to fishing wire and they were much farther apart, the neighbor was NOT anonymous and can be tracked down, he said they were lanters just like these.

[galpeace1]

You obviously didn't do your homework. There are thousands of credible reports concerning the anomalous STATEWIDE sightings of huge balls of light that were attached to a mile wide V or boomerang CRAFT silently traversing for HOURS at 30 mph at low altitude and then taking off at tremendous speeds. The jury is still out concerning the 2008 sighting, but the now historic 1997 event was certainly NOT balloons or flares! By the way, a CA group tried to reinact this 'claim' and it was impossible.

[DODwebdotorg]

Cool lanterns, have to make sth like that myself some time.

As for ETs (not sure how they made their way into these comments) - considering the ammount of planets I doubt ours is the only one with life in one form or another.

I also doubt "aliens" are 1,3 meter tall carbon based oxygen breathing bipedals, that sounds more like limited human imagination.

Real ET's are formed by the laws of physics (which we're able to understand fractions of) and not a hollywood art division/FX artists.

[tehrandomolli]

i really really would love to see someone duplicate the phoenix lights, if it was done with a bunch of lanterns, then by all means, someone around that area, get some of those and just re-do it, try n get them to the same spot that would be even more convincing :) heck why not make 2 of them!

[tehrandomolli]

For those that believe it was aliens, whoopieh doo is there anything better than if the experiment would fail, and on the otherhand in ur face if it was do-able, and for those that dont believe it was aliens, that would definately prove their point + even make the governor look stupid :O :)

[aizhuandong]

Flying your wish,sky lanterns can help you! Please contact us !

[SteveWard3928]

The government/CIA will always try and discount all the sitings no matter how credable the witness is (Doctors, lawyers, nurses etc...)

Can you imagine the global panic that would occur if the government verified these as UFO's?

[SteveWard3928]

someone just wanting noteriety.

[BeatleUniversity]

let this guy who claims to have done the hoax of the phoenix lights (he won't even identify himself) do it again so we all can see if it's the same thing.

[insanelane1]

this cant be the phoenix lights the lights moved together these things are all over the place!

[machalot]

If the Pheonix lights were released one minute apart like the guy claimed, they would be separated by hundreds of not thousands of feet, and these little wobbles would be imperceptible. They would appear to move together based on major wind currents.

[bobdylan4562]

These couldnt have been the phoenix lights

[hburg1975]

Why isn't this coming up?

[MASSAGAMAN]

Santa's a HOAX? Oh come on don't tell me that.!!

[bigrpb]

Youtube is a hoax!

[MasterSysop]

next time he pulls a prank like this can he announce it ahead of time. Cuase it seems like the Gubment boyz have always had someone stand in willing to take the flak for what they do. Area 51 shizzle fa rizzle

[WOODPUSHER3810]

Hey isn't that the guy from the grassy knoll? damn it! I knew it.  And I just know Elvis and Tupac are in on this.

[lisatroy25]

lmao

[yukonmike7]

Klaatu barada nikto

[volcanochaser]

Clearly this ploy by the CIA isn't going to fool anybody.

[Razimus]

cool... yep this was the phoenix lights alright... this I suspected but until this video didn't know how common they were, but yeah ufo just means unidentified fo and even the airforce couldn't identify them which causes them to officially be ufos not alien space ships.

[INMYSCOPE]

I belileve in UFOs. If it is flying? and you cannot identify it? it is a UFO!

[tlpitts]

Al Gore did not create teh Internet,

but

He did invent Global Warming.

it is all a Hoax, just like santa

[bulletproofsmurf16]

right on the money tlpitts.

[cracksmokez]

UFOs are definitely real. The are most likely also military experimental aircraft. If you believe its aliens, more points for them. The US government is one of the few remaining major governments to deny the existence of any such type of aircraft.

[evilspeak2292]

Boy, skip directly to 45 seconds if you don't want to be totally bored by this one. Three geeks hanging on for that amount of time. Stupid.

[slayter0]

haha . . . this loser watched a video of "Three geeks hanging on. . ."

[bereabeard]

Darthphill speaks the truth. Bin Laden is hiding out in Ohio, and that damn Bush has him working at the Speedway gas station on the corner of Pearl and Brookpark. That bearded bastard goes outside and changes the price signs every morning, and W calls him and makes him always raise it up more. Then they all laugh and watch while I fill up my SUV. And it's raining. That's Bush's fault too. Stale Cheetos too. Cold coffee. Everything that is or ever has been wrong is his fault.

[Darthphill]

Anywho my opinion, their might be life out there in distant gallaxys, but earth has not been visited by UFO's. That's just my opinion, you can have your own.

As for Bush, he's trying to diverte atention, from him hideing Bin Laden in Ohio, and rigging the lottery and him using gitmo detainies for alain experiments. lol

sigh, we talk too much about the UFO, and bush hoaxes. The real hoax is Global Warming.

[crucesignati]

Oh, and, we can't forget "Big Oil."

[bereabeard]

This video is a hoax launched by the corrupt Bush administration to coverup the truth about the REAL Illegal Aliens, who zapped the World Trade towers, assasinated JFK, impregnated Britney, chased Princess Di into that subterranean hideout and killed her, and made Elvis fat talentless and stupid. I even heard Bush's voice in the video, lying.

[crucesignati]

Absolutely - thank you bereabeard for the courage to speak out on this. Bush and his minion goons are everywhere. If you don't make it, know this, your bravery and courage to tell the truth will be your legacy.

[RTINSC]

These are definitely UFO's, not balloons launched by humans. I hope space police catch these aliens before they hurt a human.

[veyr0n1]

LMAO

[CaboThomas]

Sky lanterns are the best explanation for a public that's ignorant and scared.  The simplist premise can take away all the sheepels fears. (Do sky lanterns block out 1,000's of square feet of the night sky?)

[oneandatwo]

No, they don't.

[WGRYSEN]

I have launched one of these before and as a fire marshal I can tell you they got barn fire writen all over them!!

[antanitis]

al gore invented the ufo

[fool4Jesus52]

Amos!!!I'm with you buddy...Pelosi was ON one of the craft!!!!!If they come over Oklahoma,I'm outta here...

[AmosNomore]

Sky Lanterns my eye! Those are highly classified top-secret captured extraterrestrial spacecraft awaiting reverse-engineering. Don't be deceived by this obvious shadow government disinformation campaign ploy.

[bweck000]

Do you have a metal plate in your head?

[AmosNomore]

Do you have a funnybone in your body?

[smitty195]

I agree. These are highly classified UFO transportation devices. I'm sure of it, because I read it on the internet. Or maybe I heard it through the voices in my head...I can't remember now. I'm calling Mulder right now.

[Rystenthelion]

They're easy to make, ^^ four gores *sides* to construct the balloon, a thin, bamboo hoop or dowel and wire with a thick cotton wadding soaked in some sort of fuel. *be cautious, some fuels are rather explosive due to fumes generated. try to use a fluid a bit like coal ignition fluid to soak the cotton with.*

[sooloopy]

I think I saw one of these on Christmas Eve, over Sheffield.

[zeesham13]

u thought it waz ufo, lol!

[sooloopy]

yeah I did wonder!

[zeesham13]

i saw a light in the sky when i looked it was just a private jet lol

[goobectomy]

How did you guys make these? Could you make a video showing the construction?

[magicpinkmonkey]

wow! ive never seen anything like that! thanks for sharing. Em in UK.