From everything we know, these recent Oxfordshire objects
are not so-called Chinese Lanterns:
For a start just look as the camera zooms
in closely, how there is no tell-tale flickering from an internal
tea light-type candle/fuel cell, which is normally used to illuminate
these paper hot air balloons; then see how tight and perfectly
spaced the formation remains throughout its flight...
(whereas sky lanterns just tend to drift and blow around with
the breeze when aloft);
and notice also, the sheer duration of this sighting, when
usually Chinese Lanterns can go out after anything between
5 to 15 minutes, depending on size;
nor, of course, were these usual aircraft.
The objects were totally silent and the camera person only
managed to film half of them because the camera phone being
used had to be switched off for a short while in order for it to
power up and then activate the camera.
The objects were moving in an easterly direction from
Sonning Common towards Henley.
Click here to compare this with another filmed sighting in
Oxfordshire that took place way back in 1989 at Abingdon,
which is approx 16-18 miles from this latest happening.