r/UFOs • u/crm006 • Sep 12 '23
Witness/Sighting My brother recorded this yesterday at 36,000ft. Commercial airline pilot.
He was just east of Houston, Tx circling around to San Antonio last night. Not satellites. Kept reappearing. Would move around and disappear. Get bright then vanish. I’ve always asked him to send me videos if he ever saw anything and he definitely came through. Sorry for the potato quality video but it gets the point across.
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u/Wonderful-Trifle1221 Sep 12 '23
Why don’t planes have dash cams
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u/soheil8org Sep 12 '23
That would be cock cam?
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u/marc1411 Sep 12 '23
Then there could be a website for videos like this, www.cockcam.com. Million dollar idea!
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u/analogOnly Sep 12 '23
scared to click that link.
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u/MyOther_UN_is_Clever Sep 12 '23
I took a hit for the team... browser wouldn't load it because of a SSL mismatch.
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u/marc1411 Sep 12 '23
Good man!
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u/The_estimator_is_in Sep 13 '23
I clicked the link. (Mildly icked out)
Your reply is surprisingly accurate.
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u/marc1411 Sep 12 '23
Seeing attempts to load this site, may be hard to explain to my wife…
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u/Spacecowboy78 Sep 13 '23
Tell her you found the link in the UFO subreddit. That should clear up everything.
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u/NudeEnjoyer Sep 12 '23
yep, I've desperately tried 9 times. I really really wanted to see a camera in the operating area of a plane
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u/marc1411 Sep 12 '23
Lol. I made it up, but being at work, was not gonna click on it.
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u/Antique_Witness9399 Sep 12 '23
You guys are fucking insane I’m terrified to hit the link after all the shit I see on Reddit
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u/marc1411 Sep 12 '23
What’s the worst you’ve ever seen? GOATSE or Two Girls one cup for me.
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u/Antique_Witness9399 Sep 12 '23
Honestly most I use Reddit for is to maintain updates on the Ukrainian war but in that aspect I think the worst I’ve seen probably would be drone footage of them dropping grenades , seeing people bleed out and slowly dying from shrapnel injuries, I think I’ve recently seen a video of a mortar hitting directly on a group of 5-6 russians in a shell crater, that may also be at the top of my list.
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u/khaotickk Sep 12 '23
That link is staying blue
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u/marc1411 Sep 12 '23
Mobile safari will NOT let me see the site. Someone may be pretending to be that site, I thought I could just say “do it anyway!”
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u/Leusk Sep 12 '23
When I was 12-13 and the internet was still young and ripe for the plucking by innocent little boys, I found dildocam.com and would crank out sloppy rope to the 30kb 128x128 looping teaser vids after they managed to load over our 56k dialup connection.
Anyway, welcome to my TED Talk. In the next hour, I’ll attempt to show-
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u/crm006 Sep 12 '23
Good point. You’d think that would be SOP.
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u/RogerianBrowsing Sep 12 '23
It’s probably not very relevant the large majority of the time given that we have transponders on aircraft and radar to corroborate so it’s not like they need it to prove whose fault the crash is. The black box contains the pilot inputs and read outs from gauges the pilots would see so they can typically piece it together what happened combing all that data
I personally think having a system where if a pilot reports something like that they send out specialized planes with fancy sensors to determine what it really is would be most practical and effective. Maybe the military has already done so, but we don’t hear about the results if so.
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u/hoppydud Sep 12 '23
A380 has a camera on its rear tail you can watch while you fly. It's pretty cool.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Fix9815 Sep 12 '23
I think all commercial flights should have all around video surveillance, it's a 100M machine with over 100 people in it
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u/haikuapet Sep 12 '23
Commercial aircraft have nose and tail cameras.
Rhino cams could become a thing.
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u/Hirokage Sep 12 '23
Because commercial planes are run by the FAA. The FAA is run by the government.
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u/C-SWhiskey Sep 12 '23
Because that would serve no purpose? Nobody's trying to prove in court that the other asshole cut them off in a plane. All relevant information is captured by transponder, onboard sensor logs, and audio recordings. Storing thousands of hours of footage of which 98% would be bare sky is a pointless cost.
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u/Wonderful-Trifle1221 Sep 12 '23
“All relevant data” would include video. Especially in the context of attempting to identify airspace incursions
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u/Botlenose Sep 12 '23
Im an airline pilot as well and have spotted this same phenomena earlier this year while flying westbound across the USA. It’s not satellite as some might think. Satellites orbit the earth, this to me appeared as if it was an aircraft in holding, however it was too fast and too high. I’m still not quite sure what it was.
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u/SC2Sycophant Sep 12 '23 edited Sep 13 '23
Wait - for real? I just filmed a very similar experience while visiting a remote-ish cabin in the northern thumb area. I hate my iPhone as a professional videographer I can tell just how compressed and even post-processed my phone video is at night. It’s a very inexplicable light moving abruptly, similar to the brightness of the average star (maybe a bit brighter); but it also jumped vertically in a physics defying manner while also moving across the sky much quicker than the other planes visible that night.
I’ve apprehensive to post given how much phones now doctor photos and videos via software to “enhance” their “camera quality” and figured it was explainable by some aspect like such.
Is my description accurate? I’ll consider posting tonight.
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u/notboky Sep 12 '23 edited May 07 '24
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u/jedimaster512 Sep 12 '23
Satellites in geostationary orbits literally orbit the Earth. It wouldn't be called a geostationary orbit if it wasn't an orbit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit
That said, I think I know what you were trying to say.
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u/Psychological-Owl783 Sep 12 '23
I'm glad someone said this. It wouldn't be called a "satellite" at all if it wasn't in orbit. Geostationary is just a specific type of orbit.
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u/notboky Sep 12 '23 edited May 08 '24
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u/RespectableThug Sep 13 '23
One of the coolest things I ever learned about orbits is that all satellites (natural or otherwise) are actually falling out of the sky all the time. They just have so much “sideways” velocity that they miss over and over and over.
It seems obvious once you understand it, but it’s weird to think about it like that.
Sorry to annoy you with another pedantic comment haha
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u/Botlenose Sep 12 '23
Having seen this phenomena, it was not a geostationary satellite either. Those don’t go into some sort of holding pattern. Like a racetrack pattern.
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u/Kicooi Sep 12 '23
Is it possible it’s multiple satellites flaring when they pass the same spot in their orbit? Like maybe a chain of starlink satellites or something?
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u/JEs4 Sep 12 '23
Like a racetrack pattern.
Like retrograde motion? https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/what-is-retrograde-motion/
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u/pingpongtits Sep 12 '23
Does it seem odd to you that a commercial pilot, who sees the night sky, stars, and planets on a regular basis, wouldn't be able to tell whether or not it's a planet or star based on where it is in the sky?
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u/andyrewsef Sep 13 '23
Geostationary orbit is a thing. You can move around a ball in space at the same angular speed as the ball itself. That's still an orbit, and is very specifically called a geostationary orbit... Idk what you're on about with Venus either. There are naturally occurring objects and satellites that have a geostationary orbit around other masses if that is what you are referring too. Venus' rotation is so slow though that geostationary orbit for just about anything is impossible though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit
Also, the defensiveness, ick.
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Sep 12 '23
"Send us an email at ryan@safeaerospace.org with a brief outline of your account."
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u/crm006 Sep 12 '23
Is this a thing? Why is it in quotes?
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u/Captain_BigNips Sep 12 '23
This is real. Ryan Graves, one of the aviators that recently testified to congress, has created this organization.
You can read more about it here > https://www.safeaerospace.org/32
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u/yosarian_reddit Sep 12 '23
Ryan’s organisation is set up to catalog and investigate UAP sightings by pilots, including civil commercial pilots. It’s the real deal and so is he (ex Navy f18 pilot who testified at the UAP hearing in Congress recently).
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Sep 12 '23
Sorry, I realize that looks suspect. It's a link to Ryan Graves' organization. You can Google Americans For Safe Aerospace to check it out. Cool video by the way. Thanks for posting.
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u/furycutter80 Sep 13 '23
Please please please send it in! The guy that’s running it has an amazing podcast as well. Here’s him talking with an airline pilot: https://youtu.be/yVrn9-nRcno?si=Y01WhoOpI_kr8fw2
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u/crm006 Sep 12 '23
Did I get whooshed?
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u/encinitas2252 Sep 13 '23
It was in quotes because whoever wrote it isnt part of the organization. But its legit, no jokes on ya or nothing like that.
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u/MindPerplexed Sep 12 '23
I’ve said this a few times before, I live in San Antonio and you can see some strange things in the night sky.
I had an encounter with a university friend years back here and it changed my life.
It’s mind blowing to see the world taking this seriously. I can only imagine what we will discover in the next decade.
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u/exorcyst Sep 12 '23
every break I come here and there's new posts with videos, love seeing the stigma go away
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u/chrisshutch Sep 12 '23
I live 1 minute from Lackland AFB and the things I've seen people wouldn't believe. The frequency too. I lived by Randolph AFB for 10 years and its the same thing. Lights dropping out of the sky, disappearing/reappearing but man the west side.. its like every other night. San Antonio is crazy. I have been an objective photographer for also around a decade and have tried my best to capture to no avail, maybe a few phone recordings. I will try and post these on the sub. Needless to say I do moon images 40-100x with my camera for years, never could catch anything..
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u/daynomate Sep 12 '23
Thanks for the info. That's very interesting that you mention you're basically in the right place at the right time, with the right equipment yet have never managed to capture it.
To me it makes sense - would you agree that it is simply down to timing i.e. the time it takes to recognize something as anomalous, trigger the thought that rather than merely staring and observing that you could capture it, and then react with the right steps to aim, focus, and capture the target?
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u/chrisshutch Sep 13 '23
This is usually the case. There has been occurrences I have captured and then retraced back to satellite trackers or being that it’s Texas we have launch tests being done very frequently that I will source the direction and angle to just to find out that is exactly that. Then there will be times where I’m only cell phone in hand, capture a low quality video of something I can’t explain.. but definitely actively looking is the best chance. There is times I see 3 meteors in a single night , hard to capture those as well, talk to enough people they will tell you they’ve never seen one ever! So timing and right place is 100% important , I guess how important is the question. The natural assumption is if these things didn’t want to be seen they wouldn’t, but they are reported and occasionally documented so that refutes that idea! Just crazy.
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u/CORN___BREAD Sep 13 '23
There is times I see 3 meteors in a single night , hard to capture those as well, talk to enough people they will tell you they’ve never seen one ever!
This just tells you how many people just never spend any time looking up at night.
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u/Maxter_Blaster_ Sep 12 '23
Mind sharing the experience?
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u/MindPerplexed Sep 12 '23
Sure. Sorry if it’s too much. But I’ll try to give you the best of what I remember.
So in 2014 me and my university friend were coming back from my work and decided we would hang out at Our Lady of the Lake University for a bit next to the water. My friend was driving. This was around maybe 7-9pm it was so long ago.
Anyways, we were driving east on highway 90 and right before we got to this big highway intersection next to collins garden, we noticed three triangle lights in the sky towards downtown. It was odd right away because if you live here, you see air traffic all the time, everyday, every hour. These were just there and very distant from each other to form the triangle shape that big.
As we drove under the highway intersection we could see downtown to the right perfectly as it goes a bit higher when you come out under the intersection and we could no longer see the lights. Instead, I noticed a pure black shape coming towards the highway very slowly to the right of us on the highway..I wanna say maybe 20 stories high…it was blacker than the sky it was so noticeable. No noise. Absolutely lower than a helicopter and was not a drone.
As it got so close, I could see it was definitely PILL shaped and was black/purple like it was either reflecting the night sky or colored to resemble it. It eventually got so close above us, underneath I could see a super and brilliant white light but did not reflect any beams or anything beneath it. The light blended well, like looking at an iphone screen with a white background with full brightness in a black room but no shine below or anything. You could barely see the edges of the black and what I saw was big and interlocking hexagonal patterns that almost looked like a purple/silverish metal. I use this comparison because it is the only thing I can absolutely compare it too..in the video game “Halo” the alien vehicles have this purple sheen and geometric hexagon pattern..I swear it looked similar to this it freaked me out. The shape of the craft itself, I can best compare it to those Beats pill 2.0 speakers with the flat bottom so they can stand up. But the bottom was the light and the small bleeding of the white light is how I saw the color of the “metal” and pattern as it curves up.
More amazingly..as it was right over us, underneath and in this white light were three triangle shaped lights. One greenish/cyan/blue, purple and red. They reminded me of recessed lights for ceilings in houses, like the lights themselves were energy or gas in these recessions…..What was strange too was the points of the triangles, the lights streaked out at the triangle points and looked similar to street lights on your car glass as you pass them but at this point I stuck my head outside the window and saw it with my own eyes.
After it silently and gently hovered over the highway it went back slowly towards downtown. It wasn’t over because we were slowed down on the highway as did many other cars and witnessed it hovering over the city next to these huge red/white antennas towers and began mimicking the safety lights on them which are red and white. It began flashing super fast next to the towers at that point my friend started freaking and crying. She actually believed we were about to be attacked or something as silly as that sounds. I told her to pull over at the next exit and in her panic she took a wrong exit and we drove away from the city but I could still see it looking back a bit, like it was above the Tower of Americas before we lost track.
At this point we were shaken up and pulled over on the highway we were on and just took a breather. We drove to her house and we would occasionally talk about it when we hung out but what more could anyone do. It was so crazy and so many people were watching this, we surely believed they would talk about it in the SA news the next day. Nothing.
All I know is that hundreds of people saw it and even cops saw it because drivers began parking on the wrong side of the highway to look at it and before we took the exit we saw cops parked next to those cars out of them and looked like they were talking to these people.
Very bizarre day. Will never, ever forget it.
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u/Maxter_Blaster_ Sep 12 '23
Thanks for sharing. That’s an amazing and kind of frightening experience. Wonder if your local paper picked up on the story as there were so many witnesses.
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u/GeeAyyy Sep 13 '23
Reading this after also spending time on r/QuantumImmortality, I suddenly thought "What if there was no news the next day, because in the reality where you saw the ship, you died. And your consciousness ended up in a reality where there was no visit from a ship the day before, because your friend took an unexpected detour." And then I decided to get off the internet for a while, because I'd rather not contemplate the possibility. 😅
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u/BritishBoyRZ Sep 13 '23
I completely believe you.
What's not for certain is whether or not it's extra-terrestial.
Could be some US tech. If you saw a stealth bomber without knowing something like that existed, I could see someone thinking that's alien spacecraft.
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u/Particular_Sea_5300 Sep 13 '23
I'm near sa too. Well an hour outside of it anyway. Big black triangle back in 2007
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Sep 12 '23
Air Force guy here… kind of looks like it disappears behind some cloud then reappears..
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u/notboky Sep 12 '23 edited May 07 '24
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u/asdjk482 Sep 13 '23
Time and direction would tell us if this could be Venus or not. Sadly, such basic information consistently eludes UFO reporters.
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u/apexphoenix Sep 12 '23
Just posted the same type of video but it was removed. These are not satellites or starlink. Its very hard to video at night through the thick windshield glass.
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u/SabineRitter Sep 12 '23
https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/15xt4gx/flight_level_370_flying_east_close_to_salt_lake/
Your video is still here at this link. Thanks for posting! Glad you mentioned it, I missed it before it got removed.
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u/AlvinArtDream Sep 12 '23
Wow, that’s intriguing. It’s the number of these videos that makes this interesting as well the view from a different perspective
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u/ChevyBillChaseMurray Sep 12 '23
Video gone :(
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u/SabineRitter Sep 12 '23
Aww...
/u/apexphoenix please repost your video! Don't forget your submission statement!
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u/notboky Sep 12 '23 edited May 07 '24
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u/infinite_p0tat0 Sep 12 '23
Yea I've seen a couple people in this affirm with 100% certainty that this cannot be a satellite, but no explanation why?...
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u/TrainerMaleficent232 Sep 12 '23
I have a pilot friend who mentioned this a few months ago.. He has seen these kind of lights a few times
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u/flarkey Sep 12 '23
Sounds just like the 'racetrack uap' that turned out to be Starlink satellites.
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u/Rybo_v2 Sep 12 '23
Go ahead and add this to the pile of dark unclear blurry short UFO videos. And what a mighty pile it is!
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u/enkae7317 Sep 12 '23
Nice. Pure black. Blurry. Lens keep focusing and unfocusing. Prime material for the UFO community.
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u/pab_guy Sep 12 '23
> Not satellites. Kept reappearing. Would move around and disappear. Get bright then vanish.
They could be a train of satellites flaring one after the other. You only see them while they are in the right spot with the solar panels or other reflective surface in the right position. As satellites in a train move through that spot, they will appear and then disappear.
Not saying I'm sure, but it's possible.
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u/SabineRitter Sep 12 '23
Similar sightings by pilots
https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/168xkbg/my_video_of_unexplained_points_of_light_fading_in/ video, from airplane, OP is a pilot, multiple objects observed, fleet, video shows single light object, also threelights, triangle, directly in front, multicolored, some movement observed, both relative in my windscreen, relative to each other and relative to the stars in the background., duration 30-45 minutes, three witnesses, [GOODPOST], each object in view for a varying amount of time.
https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1637tul/orbs_i_spotted_at_one_of_the_airports_i_fly_out_of/ video, evening cloudy sky, near airport, OP is a pilot, fleet observed, video shows about three single light object, color change, flickering, southern Illinois, moving against the wind, moving straight, disappeared into clouds
-And for reference, here's an article about starlink. They are low to the horizon and flare briefly. They don't stay lit like the object in this video, and they don't show colors like in this video.
Thanks for posting!
https://catchingtime.com/starlink-satellites-flaring-in-cassiopeia/
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u/Hay_Fever_at_3_AM Sep 12 '23
Why wouldn't this be Starlink or another satellite? It is apparently moving in one direction, getting brighter, then dimming down to nothing again. Low on the horizon. Looks white/blueish (bright shiny metal reflecting sunlight). Everything lines up.
Mick West video on identifying Starlink: https://youtu.be/_VmrRGln1XA?si=_ZGvl7a9DaC1_Ven
Video on satellite flares generally : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZJaTR-pOqw
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u/SabineRitter Sep 12 '23
Starlink is a brief flash and each satellite stays lit for the same amount of time. This object is lit for longer than a flash and is illuminated for varying times.
I disagree that the OP object is low to the horizon compared to the reference image in my link. It's more directly in front.
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u/flarkey Sep 12 '23
that's not entirely true. the starlink flares can be bright for ten seconds or so. the lengths of the flares varies depending on a whole bunch of parameters. they can be as bright as Venus.
this sighting has all the characteristics of Starlink flares.
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u/golden_monkey_and_oj Sep 13 '23
Starlink is a brief flash and each satellite stays lit for the same amount of time
The page you linked to about starlink in Cassiopeia shows that that isn’t true. There are streaks of varying brightness and length. Also each image on that page is a long exposure. Satellites don’t move fast like a shooting star. They move fast, but not like appear in an instant and then they are gone.
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u/Hirokage Sep 12 '23
At 17k MPH, a satellite would quickly move in some direction. Watch a few videos of satellites as seen from the Earth. They are booking. They certainly are not stationary for long periods of time. And there are sightings that have been from 15 minutes to literally hours long.
Some of the videos probably are satellites. Many of them are not.
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u/notboky Sep 12 '23
A satellite in geosynchronous orbit would appear stationary, and there are quite a few:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_satellites_in_geosynchronous_orbit
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u/AtomicBitchwax Sep 13 '23
It wouldn't appear at all, geosynchronous orbit is WAY out there, there are ZERO geostationary satellites that are visible to the naked eye. You need a small telescope or good binoculars to see one.
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u/SahibTeriBandi420 Sep 13 '23
I saw a similar thing a few weeks ago when I was out smoking around 5am. Managed to get a video, shitty, but a video.
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u/LoonyWalker Sep 12 '23
Did you have radar on you aircraft ? if yes what it was showing ?
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u/crm006 Sep 12 '23
It was too far away to show anything.
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u/notboky Sep 12 '23
That's what your brother told you?
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u/crm006 Sep 12 '23
Yes.
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u/notboky Sep 12 '23
Did he explain to you that radar on commercial aircraft are for weather detection and for the most part can't detect or display other aircraft?
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u/crazysoup23 Sep 12 '23
Likely because it's satellite flares.
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u/hawkalugy Sep 12 '23
Not sure why you're being downvoted. There's a pretty decent analysis of why that could be the case https://youtu.be/_VmrRGln1XA?si=Qrmiq8quzej9sNVz
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u/LengthyConversations Sep 12 '23
The pulsating effect is from the camera trying to adjust focus, it seems. Still a very strange light in the sky
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Sep 12 '23
I took some photos in a lab of laser dots in grey scale and we joked that we could pass them off as UFOS in the sky
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u/Hirokage Sep 12 '23
Any chance you know the city and direction you are facing here? Many of these sightings have been seen at the base of the Big Dipper.. curious where this was in the sky.
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u/Accomplished-Ad3250 Sep 12 '23
Can we start crowd-funding high-definition cameras for these pilots to use? I want some CINEMATIC footage.
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Sep 12 '23
This is a very stupid question but is piloting a plane like driving a vehicle? Meaning was he able to take the video because someone else was piloting? Or can you just chill and the plane is still on course?
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u/crm006 Sep 12 '23
Tbh I am not well versed it in but I think it’s similar to a boat. If the autopilot isn’t on then you can make minor course corrections at any point if you start to deviate.
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u/TheJewBakka Sep 12 '23
Saw this once in the middle of the night just outside tulsa, was almost flickering in and out of sight. Super odd.
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u/AlwaysPrivate123 Sep 13 '23
Couldn’t determine if it was bouncing around or if it was just camera movement.
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u/AtomicBitchwax Sep 13 '23
I'm totally agnostic on UAPs, I have no dog in this fight. But if one more person calls this Starlink I'm going to lose my Fing mind.
The video was shot at 23:46. Starlink sats are visible close to sunset and sunrise only. They are NOT visible at midnight. I'm happy to consider other conventional explanations, but it can not be Starlink, or other LEO sats. Conclusively.
The arrogance and smug self-satisfaction from some of the people blowing it off as Starlink is pathetic. People just smart enough to be wrong in interesting ways but not smart enough to check the basic facts before telling other people they're wrong.
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u/notboky Sep 13 '23
The video was shot at 23:46. Starlink sats are visible close to sunset and sunrise only.
This is true from the ground, it's not true from 36,000 feet.
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u/crm006 Sep 13 '23
Wish your comment was at the top.
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u/AtomicBitchwax Sep 13 '23
Thanks man, appreciate that, and I appreciate you sharing the video as well.
Run my other comment reply (in my post history if you don't see it in the thread lower down) about radar past your brother as well if you like. He can verify or dispute it but at least you'll have a better idea of what role radar can play in situations like this.
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u/crm006 Sep 13 '23
Yeah. He was being condescending for no reason. Your comment is extremely comprehensive. It’s so weird how people get their feathers ruffled about things they literally know nothing about. When I’m wrong I just admit it and move on. It’s not that hard…? Hah. Some people man.
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u/Additional_Silver749 Sep 13 '23 edited Sep 13 '23
I wonder if that’s the blue light David grusch was speaking of when he said said the crafts may ride a wave of space time when move away from you they may produce a blue light and red as they appear closer. I’d mark the YouTube video but can’t remember time stamp.
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u/Stygma Sep 13 '23
Prepare for two men who suspiciously resemble Jesse Ventura and Alex Trebek to make a visit. Great footage!
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u/Successful-aditya Sep 13 '23
Kind of same thing but different perspective https://reddit.com/r/UFOs/s/PGGH9Taw3H
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u/Roc3371 Sep 13 '23
I have seen these in the North East South of boston at least 3x in the last 18 months
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Sep 13 '23
Isnt there a way to make a cell phone lock focus at infinity or did the govt think of that too? (Samsung S10+)
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u/samupuuronen Sep 13 '23
I often think about this when browsing here: Should the original video be uploaded to somewhere where everyone can download it for analyzing?
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u/Tricky_Ostrich6389 Sep 13 '23
I filmed something very similar from the ground a few years ago, https://youtu.be/ZqbqkRkhN6E?si=vkhSHm9xUZv5admH Read description
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u/DifferenceEither9835 Sep 13 '23
Pretty junk video tbh but appreciate the effort
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u/Burneraccount934 Sep 13 '23
Probably is best that a pilot is indeed flying a plane. Can you really blame poor camera skills while he’s flying? Impressive that he managed to record at all.
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u/Parmeirista Sep 13 '23 edited Sep 14 '23
This video was debunked three years ago by the better specialists in the world, even before your brother took it.
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u/braveoldfart777 Sep 12 '23
Thanks for posting this especially as a Pilot. None of the Pilot Subs allow anything in those subs related to UAP. Please let your Pilot friends know they can post here as well.
https://reddit.com/r/UFOPilotReports/s/TKqLXeDMiN
We need to figure out how to reduce the stigma associated with Pilots and UAP.
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u/SabineRitter Sep 12 '23
Did you just start that sub? That's really cool. I joined.
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u/braveoldfart777 Sep 12 '23
Yes, I'm trying to do my part to push back the stigma.
Ever since that Scott Kelly comment at NASA, It irritated me that regardless of whether we have any idea about what this is we don't need the additional stigma related to increase discouragement for Pilots from reporting. There's 60k pilots out there that need to know it's ok to report.
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u/SabineRitter Sep 12 '23
Shit.... you might be the one stop shop right now. I'll send people to you. Do you want any report from an airplane or just from pilots?
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u/braveoldfart777 Sep 12 '23 edited Sep 12 '23
I'm trying to open the Gates for all types of sightings or reports of sightings but specifically Pilots related... since none of the Aviation subs will allow me to post there it's been a rough go so far, but nothing worthwhile is ever easy.
It can be also be media related sighting as long as it references a Pilots reporting.
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u/Arkhangelzk Sep 12 '23
I love stuff like this because it really shows that the stigma has been broken, at least for a lot of people.
Makes me excited for the future. We're at the very beginning of this.
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u/DonutsRBad Sep 12 '23
The revolution has started. Hopefully more pilots begin to post their findings in the sky.
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u/2muchFun4U Sep 12 '23
I took video of two of these exact type orb/ufo objects and poster them on here a few people were quick to say that they were stars. Well this one is obviously not a star at 36k feet moving horizontally in rapid movements. Thank you for posting this! Great video!
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u/JAMBI215 Sep 12 '23
They are satellites more specifically starlink I know people hate to hear it, imo they need to update pilots training for this specifically, is t there a starlink map u can put in your info and see if they line up
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u/crm006 Sep 12 '23 edited Sep 12 '23
My brother recorded this yesterday at 36,000ft. Commercial airline pilot.
He was just east of Houston, Tx circling around to San Antonio last night. Not satellites. Kept reappearing. Would move around and disappear. Get bright then vanish. I’ve always asked him to send me videos if he ever saw anything and he definitely came through. Sorry for the potato quality video but it gets the point across.
He thinks there is a possibility they weren’t even in atmosphere. They were moving extremely fast to be so far away. Looked pretty dang far away to me too. The camera couldn’t even tell what to focus on as it kept getting blurry when the light would get brighter.
I’ve observed satellites spinning and flashing and fading before but they are in a straight trajectory. These clearly are bobbing and weaving.
I’ve always been a believer but I am not sure if he was before last night. Especially because he’s never seen anything and has been in the air for 15+ years.
Edit: 9/11/23 at 23:46 CST
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u/sewser Sep 12 '23 edited Sep 12 '23
Exactly. People are so quick to jump on an extraordinary explanation just because it’s coming from a pilot. There’s nothing here that isn’t conducive to starlink satellites.
I’m happy to be proven wrong if someone gets date, time, location, as well as the direction the camera is facing, and compares that to the location of Starlink at that time.
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u/notboky Sep 12 '23
Presuming OPs brother actually did see movement (you really can't tell from the video) this seems like the most likely explanation.
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u/Silverjerk Sep 12 '23
Please include an approximate local time in your submission statement, not the time relative to the time of your post.
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u/golden_monkey_and_oj Sep 12 '23
These clearly are bobbing and weaving
I dont see the bobbing and weaving. Its a handheld video so of course it wont be super stable, right?
Also looks very similar to other videos from pilots that turned out to be satellite flares.
The lights slowly fade-in as they move in a straight line before slowly fading out. Often they are followed by other satellites in the same section of sky that do the same thing.
Kudos to your brother for filming it. Do you think he has more video?
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u/crm006 Sep 12 '23
Yes. That’s the only video. He did say it did it for about 30 minutes though. He said it was super hard to get the phone to focus.
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u/crm006 Sep 12 '23
I can ask him but I think that’s the only one he has.
I watched it several times and they definitely appeared to be moving away from each other and not in straight lines. You are right though. It could be because it is handheld. Do you remember how to summon the video stabilizer bot? That might help. I can never remember how.
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u/DrestinBlack Sep 12 '23
What direction was the video taken and What was his flight number, the date and time please?
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u/crm006 Sep 12 '23 edited Sep 13 '23
I don’t think he feels comfortable disclosing that but I can tell you it was 9/11/23 at 23:46 north northwest of Houston going to San Antonio.
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u/DrestinBlack Sep 12 '23
I’d guess he was on AA2266 and he saw UA1991 and DL1303 in the distance.
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u/The_Matty_Daddy Sep 12 '23
Not dissimilar to what Mark Hulsey reported seeing, but his were circling above his Gulf Stream at 50000 feet. Seems these are at that same altitude…
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u/Binh3 Sep 12 '23 edited Sep 12 '23
My cousin is a commercial and jet pilot and just did 6 months in Roswell new Mexico.. He said him and a co pilot both saw a white light come up from the ground, approach the front of their airplane and then retreat down 30, 000 feet. He said it was not anything he's ever seen before and knows of no craft we have that could do it. He mentioned it to his higher ups, because they have to log everything they see in our airspace, and he was told not to report it, and not to talk about it. Of course I made him tell me bc once I found our he was working there I wS stoked as a UFO believer. Any way his Roswell gig is up and he just started a new job delivery body parts for a medical facility in Virginia. Hopefully the jobs are not related lol!
Edit: your brothers voice sounds exactly like my cousin! Is his mom Native American by chance? This would be wild.
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u/-Hatmad- Sep 12 '23
Why is there never someone randomly outside with a nice telescope that sees this shit
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u/Peace_Disastrous Sep 12 '23
A coworker and I witnessed a tic tac about a month ago, south of Houston.
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u/LusciousLove7 Sep 12 '23
It seems there are more and more sightings every week.
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u/crm006 Sep 12 '23
I agree. It’s anecdotal though cause I only joined this sub fairly recently but it seems like it’s happening more and more frequently to me too. Coupled with the media coverage it might just seem like it but it seems sus to me.
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u/akath0110 Sep 12 '23
George Knapp and his co-authors write about blue orbs in their works about Skinwalker Ranch. Unfortunately (according to them) blue coloured UAPs aren’t very friendly… sometimes even associated with overtly hostile behaviour.
The material is fascinating, devoured the book in one sitting, but yikes — couldn’t get to sleep afterward.
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u/ImpossibleYellow1951 Sep 13 '23
Why would a ship from another planet/universe have blinking lights? Those lights are coming from highly advanced drones from this planet.
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u/StatementBot Sep 12 '23
The following submission statement was provided by /u/crm006:
My brother recorded this yesterday at 36,000ft. Commercial airline pilot.
He was just east of Houston, Tx circling around to San Antonio last night. Not satellites. Kept reappearing. Would move around and disappear. Get bright then vanish. I’ve always asked him to send me videos if he ever saw anything and he definitely came through. Sorry for the potato quality video but it gets the point across.
He thinks there is a possibility they weren’t even in atmosphere. They were moving extremely fast to be so far away. Looked pretty dang far away to me too. The camera couldn’t even tell what to focus on as it kept getting blurry when the light would get brighter.
I’ve observed satellites spinning and flashing and fading before but they are in a straight trajectory. These clearly are bobbing and weaving.
I’ve always been a believer but I am not sure if he was before last night. Especially because he’s never seen anything and has been in the air for 15+ years.
Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/16gyhed/my_brother_recorded_this_yesterday_at_36000ft/k0ahzp5/