{"id":1556,"date":"2011-01-05T06:46:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T10:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2011-01-05T06:46:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T10:46:17","slug":"wellington-west-palm-beach-ufo-sightings-were-probably-floating-lanterns-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2011\/01\/05\/wellington-west-palm-beach-ufo-sightings-were-probably-floating-lanterns-expert-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington, West Palm Beach UFO sightings were probably floating lanterns, expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glowing orange and red lights floated across parts of Florida&#8217;s sky New Year&#8217;s weekend, including in the Wellington and West Palm Beach areas, setting off a state of wonderment among witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>But those UFOs weren&#8217;t so unidentified after all.<\/p>\n<p>The drifting bulbs and streaks were probably floating lanterns, said Brian Vike, founder of the paranormal blog The Vike Factor, which fielded about 250 e-mails, 30 or so from Florida, noting the strange sightings worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re all lit up and glowing,&#8221; Vike said. &#8220;They&#8217;ll go up and down and sideways, so it looks pretty weird.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/news\/wellington-west-palm-beach-ufo-sightings-were-probably-1160744.html\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glowing orange and red lights floated across parts of Florida&#8217;s sky New Year&#8217;s weekend, including in the Wellington and West Palm Beach areas, setting off a state of wonderment among witnesses. But those UFOs weren&#8217;t so unidentified after all. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2011\/01\/05\/wellington-west-palm-beach-ufo-sightings-were-probably-floating-lanterns-expert-says\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/1563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}