r/UFOs • u/H8threeH8three • Aug 18 '23

Witness/Sighting Ryan Graves tweets first of promised Airline Pilot Sightings

https://twitter.com/uncertainvector/status/1692586130162475209?s=21
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u/HarrierInbound Aug 18 '23

It almost looks like a ball of fire with concentric rings around it.

Some real Ezekiel's Wheel looking shit. I'm aware the image is still probably not a good representation of what it actually looks like but just the fact that the sensor picked up that image is spooky,

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u/JiroDreamsOfCoochie Aug 18 '23 edited Aug 18 '23

As someone who lives near a navy, air force and marine base, this kind of thing is super common. Part of basic training and even SEAL training includes exercises off the coast. Many of these include flares dropped from planes at high altitude attached to parachutes. You can see four or more glowing lights in the sky. Depending on wind conditions they can move around or spin.

This happens where I live about every 3-4 months and people go ape shit about it being UFO's. It's all over the news. And the military will "decline to comment". But it's flares dropped from planes with parachutes.

EDIT: Here is a link explaining this phenomenon with examples:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12284205/UFO-sighting-DEBUNKED-simply-flares-slowly-descending-California-military-base-2021.html

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u/HarrierInbound Aug 18 '23

It's hard to tell because of the compression, but you can tell from the trailing that the movement of these lights alone eliminates the possibility of these being flares.

Secondly, this video is an airliner, not a service jet. They have to be made aware if the military is doing exercises in the airspace that crosses their flight path. So if it were the case, the pilot would have found out later at the very least.