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Fire balloon

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A balloon raised in the air by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire placed in the lower part<- = hot-air balloon ->
A balloon sent up at night with fireworks which ignite at a regulated height.

See also: Fire Fire



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Mark Romney of the Merseyside Anomalies Research Association (Mara), said: "Based on the description that witnesses have given - a for mation of independent bright orange lights moving slowly across the sky in a rough South East to North West direction, in good weather, I think it is safe to assume that the mystery objects are fire balloons, also known as Chinese lanterns.
UFOs. ARETHEY JUST LANTERNS? Man claims he saw one close up by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Similarly, Joseph Haydn claimed a visit to Herschel, then living in Slough, in 1792 helped him write his oratorio The Creation; Byron's poem Don Juan includes a tribute to Davy's lantern, 'by which coals are safely mined'; while in 1812 Shelley used unmanned fire balloons to distribute copies of his revolutionary pamphlet, A Declaration of Rights.
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He is alleged to have used a catapult to fire balloons filled with pink paint at the magician at 3am.
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