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A California couple near the San Francisco Bay area watched a slow moving bright light in the sky at 7:05 p.m. on July 11, 2010, that they were unable to identify, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The couple is considering that the object may have been a balloon, although they wonder that it "seemed too large to be a general group of balloons, and too small to be a high altitude balloon."
The object then turned a "bright orange, similar to flame."
"Upon seeing the orange flame like color my curiosity really peaked and I wished I had binoculars," the reporting witness stated. "I then thought of my camera and took two fairly poor quality photo's (see attached) hoping through the zoom I might gain some details. As you see in the photo's not much is determinable."
Comment: Of course, a new type of flare tied onto choppers. That explains it all. Not that this couldn't be the case, but could it be that the Chinese lantern theory didn't hold up to scrutiny so now we have a new theory in the US?