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What Was the Giant Pulsating Orange Disc Over the River Thames Monday Night?

Nov. 7, 2012 1:34pm Liz Klimas

A disc-shaped orb was seen floating over the River Thames near London Monday night, confusing some onlookers. But if they looked closer they would see it wasn’t a UFO but a promotional stunt for the next edition of the popular video game Halo.

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 celebrated the release of Halo 4 with this “Halo 4 Glyph,” which it states in its announcement was one of the “largest and brightest man-made structures to ever fly over a capital city.”

Xbox 360 Promotes Halo 4 Release By Flying Three Ton Orange Glyph Over Londons River Thames

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

Take a look at the official trailer of the glyph’s flight:

The glyph measured 50 feet in diameter and weighed more than three tons. It was flow by a helicopter.

“’Halo’ launches are renowned for being entertainment game-changers and we are back with our most ambitious projects to date,” Chris Lewis, Vice President, Interactive Entertainment Business, Microsoft EMEA, said in a statement. “Last week we created a replica of the “Halo” universe within the heart of Europe. This week we have one of the worlds’ largest and brightest performance art objects being flown over London.

“The Glyph flyover makes the seemingly impossible world of science fiction a reality, a 50 foot symbol of the Didact hovering in the skies of a major capital city, seems a fitting way to herald the next chapter of this phenomenal blockbuster franchise.”

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

The glyph was made by a team of more than 50 people over the span of eight weeks. It included 455 LED light strips on 37 panels, which totaled more than 113,000 lights using 20 kilowatts of power. Although the glyph was flown, the lights were remote controlled by a boat following it in the river.

Check out this footage of the glyph taken from a further distance away:

(H/T: Daily Mail)

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blair152
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 4:53pm
It’s a hoax. Everybody knows that UFOs don’t exist.

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gobluebuckeye
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 10:19am
As a staunch Conservative, and Constitutionalist I have to say, I love it. I am 34 tomorrow and I have been playing video games since I was a child, and it’s a medium of entertainment that is here for good, and Halo is one of the better games in the industry.

If we are smart we would start getting our conservative messages out into games and popular media, because as long as we let popular media (movies, music and games)be directed and dominated by the liberal socialist in this country, Obama will only be the start of the complete transformation of this country. Our message is not accessible to people who have been trained to keep a close mind to what the philosophy of our political beliefs are, thus they will never hear it properly. Until we start changing the minds of those in the inner city, we will continue to get out voted and brushed to the side. We must change!! Not in our beliefs but in how we spread our message. If we are correct (which we are) why is our message falling on deaf ears? Maybe it’s because we have given away the schools to liberal agendas and teachers, we have given away the film industry to be a mouth piece of the anti-capitalist fever that is killing this nation. Popular music glorifies the takers and looters and this has got to change. Our message is universally appealing when it’s properly displayed, and the left will never tell their sheep the truth about conservatism, but only what they view conservatism as. We will lose if this continu

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- ItsNotThatDifficult
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:22pm
  Right…. The libs are ahead of the game (no pun intended) with video games, as well. Turn an xbox 360 on and one of the first things you see is an msnbc link.
  
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conserv2011
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 8:24am
brilliant.. for a publicity stunt.. hauling a 3 ton monstrocity in the dark over a city using helicopters.

What if the line broke or the helicopter had a problem. Most lifting using helicopters are carefully controlled events that are done only in daylight.

These folks who planned this are a bunch of idiots

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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 12:38pm
  I was in a helo squadron in the Navy. We lifted heavy stuff at night all the time on moving ships.
  
  Try again.
  
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JACKTHETOAD
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 4:47am
C’mon everybody now! Let’s dull our senses with video games and dope while the Rothschilds. Bildebergs and their crew of HUMAN FILTH take over the Planet without firing a shot! …sounds like fun, no?

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My_Ears_Bleed
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 11:18pm
Sorry folks, after the election results I had to turn into something. I prayed for vengeful bolts of lightning over DC. Imagine my disappointment when I turned up as a “pulsating disk of orange light” in England, of all places! DANG!

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BlessedONE333
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 5:32pm
you realize UFO’s do not sound like helicopters right? lol

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- db321
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 6:45pm
  How do you know, have you seen and heard one.
  
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- Dan_o
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 11:36pm
  Ummm, because helicopter blades won’t work in space? I don’t know, just a guess.
  
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- asybot12
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 12:46am
  @ dan-o, that is a good observation but then who knows is space really empty? Maybe there is a helicopter type craft that can use Boson Higgs particles to propel it through worm holes using the gravitational fields of twin collapsing suns , just proof to me it ain’t so!
  
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trueamerican40
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:40pm
Obummer would enjoy an anal probe…so…

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mbean
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:33pm
Looks like a scene from the new James Bond movie… Supper Villain sends up flashy device which contains some deadly toxin?

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DeltaCharlieCain
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:15pm
Amazing game! Worth buying an XBOX 360 for if you don’t already have one.

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- Disabledvet
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:34pm
  You cant buy that game, you wont have any time to play it, you need to go out and get a second job or third job, so you can pay more taxes so the moochers, leaches and parsites on welfare can stay at home or Rob your house while you are gone.
  
  MANDATORY DRUG TESTING FOR ALL ON WELFARE OF ANY KIND.
  
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- 1TrueOne55
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 5:40pm
  NO thanks already have a MAC gaming machine, its called a Mini. 8gb ram 500gb HDD intel core i5 not a 1998 PPC G-5 designed by Apple/IBM/Toshiba and sold by Apple to the Hollywood and Grahphics industry as the G5 Quad-core Tower.
  
  Read the chip specs on the X-box 360 you will see the PPC-G5 spec with added Xenon code for backwards compatibility which they recently stopped.
  
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South Philly Boy
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 2:53pm
obummer’s HALO

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SUNTZU
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 2:28pm
Sola pow Obo frt

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Government_Goodies
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 2:23pm
I enjoy the live action series on youtube: Halo “Forward Unto Dawn”.

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- SerikFox
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:57pm
  I loved it personally. Last halo I really liked was Halo 2, however I have to say, the new game is extremely well done. I give it 9.5 out of 10.
  
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Lando
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 2:08pm
At least one good thing happened yesterday… HALO 4 is amazing!

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Rowgue
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 1:58pm
If you have to do that to promote your product then it’s probably not worth buying. Good products sell themselves.

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- Ed_Kel
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 2:09pm
  You must not have ever been introduced to Halo. The buzz around this game started before many people even knew which studio would produce the 4th installment. This isn’t marketing – this is grandstanding a cultural icon.
  
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- gobluebuckeye
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 10:30am
  I hate to tell you this, but you really don’t know what you are talking about. This game will bring in Billions of dollars with a B, Billions. Don’t mock this, as the video game industry is where the next evolution of entertainment has taken society, and if conservatives give up this medium to liberals they way we have the movie industry, music, and television, then it’s going to be increasingly harder for our message to permeate with the next generation of Americans and people in general.
  
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 1:51pm
It’s the arrival, finally, of the race of beautiful women dressed in 1950′s spacewoman curve fitting spacesuits, come to pick me up and take me off this collectivist ball of dirt, and then have their way with me.

Well, looks like I better start packing.

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- Stelex
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 2:28pm
  I thought only I had that fantasy……..
  
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Metallicat
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 1:50pm
as established by ancient alien theorists all religions are a farce that actually worshipped flashing lights in the sky which led to the establishment of every religious tenant ever written. yeah thats the ticket!

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2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 1:47pm
Great – yet another video game for the Kenyan’s supporters to play in their mother’s basement while I work to support them.

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- Ed_Kel
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 2:12pm
  Video games aren’t just for Liberals. People like you are what gives Conservatives the bad perception of being old and angry. You only have yourself to blame for this election. Show some respect.
  
  Signed – a young conservative that enjoys playing video games.
  
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- AloysiusKnight
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 2:39pm
  Thank you kind sir, I happen to be one of those gamers you automatically assume voted for Obama and you have to work for.
  
  Wait….wait a second here, no I’m not. I happen to be a gamer and conservative, I just prefer my entertainment to be video games, is that a problem?
  
  Before you open your mouth and show what a bigot you are, maybe you should stop and think.
  
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- 2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:24pm
  You guys make me laugh. A comment on a video game gets you all worked up? You caught me, I’m an old, angry video game bigot. I will seek counseling – thank you for showing me the light.
  
  Actually, I congratulate you on your conservative views. There are far too few “youngsters” who understand or even care about the direction of the country. Be strong.
  
  BTW: There’s a whole wide world out there, turn off the XBOX and go outside and find it. You’ll be glad you did.
  
  Signed,
  
  A Not So Old and Not Really Angry Guy who occasionally plays video games too.
  
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TSUNAMI_22
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 1:46pm
This is what’s important to all the Obamazombies. Halo 4, X-Box, and unlimited choom.

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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 1:57pm
  …and free rubbers, phones, and EBT cards.
  
  Sorry, the coffee hasn’t kicked in yet.
  
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- Lando
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 2:23pm
  I was just hoping the game would keep a lot of theme home. Guess not…
  
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blanco5
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 1:43pm
I wish it was a spaceship coming to take away all the world leaders!

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- Yeah_Buddy
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 1:56pm
  Yeah, or at least a comprehensive anal probing.
  
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- aproudinfidel
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 1:57pm
  I wish it was coming to take me away. The next four years will be difficult to say the least.
  
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- blanco5
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:33pm
  Yeah_Buddy—-I think I like your idea better!
  
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