Wedding Lanterns Spook Liberty County

• When: March 24th, 2013
• Where: Liberty County/Daisetta (outside Houston)
• What: Wedding lanterns (identified)

Over the weekend, Houston area residents were baffled by a series of red lights they saw in the sky, moving in a straight line, so much so that 911 calls were made and the police ventured out to investigate it - seeing the UFOs themselves. But Texas was not being invaded by aliens, fortunately, More like Chinese lanterns, which are commonly confused for UFOs.

Read more from the local news report:

The citizen reported seeing "red fire balls in the sky" traveling in a south-west direction from the area of Daisetta in East Liberty County.

“It was a 911 call (from someone) deeply concerned of what it might be,” said Captain Keith DeFoor with the Liberty Sheriff’s Department.

In total, about a dozen people reported seeing the red fire balls traveling southwest at an altitude of 3,000 feet. Some laughed it off, but others were scared by the unknown objects.

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As it turns out, investigators said the objects were actually paper lanterns lit after a wedding ceremony.

Here's a video of Chinese lanterns to paint a picture of what Texans may have seen that night: