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Strange lights over Singapore

By Murray Bourne, 07 Jan 2007

We were having dinner down near Sentosa Island at an al fresco restaurant tonight, and we saw the strangest green lights streaking across the sky. It was just after 8:00pm, and the lights were traveling south, over the eastern part of Singapore.

At first I thought it was a military jet since it was going very fast. The light it was giving off was a neon-like light green, and the strangest thing was that no noise accompanied it. It was difficult to ascertain the altitude, but it went behind some clouds after a while and my (very rough) estimate for altitude would be 8 to 10,000 feet.

I expect that it was just a comet, but it was very strange, since the outline was roughly an aircraft-like delta shape.

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