We are alone after all

We are alone after all: 'UFOs' spotted in sky above Chicago turn out to be memorial lanterns from a charity vigil


As residents left their homes to gaze up at the mysterious lights in the sky, it seemed it was finally true: they were not alone.
But UFO spotters had their hopes dashed when it turned out the slow-moving orange lights above Chicago - which made it on to local news - had a more earthly origin.
They were in fact 'sky lanterns', released as a memorial to victims of child abuse at a rally organised by a city charity.


The lanterns turned into an unintentional publicity-grabber after one woman filmed the strange formation and sent it into a local television station.

UFO bloggers picked up on the sighting, and linked it to strange lights spotted over Miami the day before.
Nicole Dragozetich was driving through Chicago's southside on Saturday night when she saw about a dozen people standing on the sidewalk staring up at the sky.

She got out of her car and began filming the strange formation of blinking orange lights on her cellphone.



The lights were too close together to be aeroplanes, and too slow-moving to be a meteor shower.
She told CBS: 'I was just going to a local restaurant to pick up food, and as I was driving I saw residents out in front of their house, staring up in the sky.'
She said: 'You could see them – just moving down the street. And they took form. At one point, it looked like an arrow.'
But as television presenters mused on the possible cause and UFO spotters chalked up another sighting, a Chicago charity came forward with a more straightforward reason.