PEOPLE across Ireland have been left baffled by an “unusual object” that has been spotted in skies for two nights in a row.
Two flashing objects appeared side by side in the night sky over Dublin last night and singular flashing light was spotted off the south coast on Tuesday night.
Alan O’Reilly of Carlow Weather was just as stumped by the sight and took to social media to ask for help identifying the “UFOs”.
He said: “I was sent two videos by followers over of unusual object in sky the last two nights.
“First part of video shows the video from last night over Dublin and second part is the night before off South coast.”
“Anyone got any ideas?”
Followers had a wide range of thoughts on what the objects could be, with some suggesting it could be the International Space Station and others claiming it could be lanterns in the sky.
One person suggested: “Low orbit satellites. They’re very common . seen three and four in a row passing over Dublin probably starlink satellites.”
Another said: “It’s the international space station, it moves at an incredible speed. Very freaky the first time I saw it without knowing what it was.”
And another echoed the same thought process saying: “Most likely the International Space Station. It flew over Ireland at 7.13 pm on Tuesday.”
Another person agreed, saying: “International Space Station. I got a notification last night it was flying over so I went out and could clearly see it.
“And a while later I got notification again and I went out and could see it again!”
Another added: “The sky is now full of lights going in straight lines across the night sky in predicable arcs. Over 7,000 Starlink satellites alone, ISS etc.”
However, others who spotted the strange lights had different ideas.
One person said: “Those usually turn out to by flying lanterns. Very weird looking from a distance.”
Another said: “Saw it south of Celbridge, bright orange light. Assumed one of this lanterns but didn’t appear to be moving very far.”
Another suggested: “The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO.
“Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.”
‘BACK TO WEATHER’
After the excitement of the UFO debate the weather expert went back to his roots to provide a weather update for followers.
Posting on X, formerly Twitter, he said: “From UFOs back to weather and I’m afraid rain returns tomorrow Friday.”
It comes as temperatures are set to soar to 18C today in a dry and sunny day.
However, from tonight rain will return with “heavy” downpours expected tomorrow.
Overnight temperatures will drop down to 0C too.
