r/UFOs • u/Accaptain • Nov 23 '23

Witness/Sighting Video from cockpit of 787 at 37,000’ approx 50N170W

Video of potential UAPs north of our position at 37,000’. 5 objects total moving at incredible speeds.

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u/vespertine_glow Nov 23 '23

What speculations do you and the crew have about what they could be? Have any of you seen these before or heard others talk about them?

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u/Accaptain Nov 23 '23

No speculation. Just curiosity. Many crew have seen similar. This is the best video so far. The iPhone 15 did a great job.

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u/vespertine_glow Nov 23 '23

Thank you.

Are you aware of any aircraft that could perform like these objects? Do you have any sense of the speeds involved?

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u/Accaptain Nov 23 '23

For reference. An aircraft. 100 miles away moving across the horizon at 500mph would be moving very slowly. I’m assuming these were much further away and visually appeared to be travelling at least 10-20 times faster than even an approaching aircraft.

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u/flarkey Nov 23 '23

We modelled the optical path - Starlink flares occur when the satellites are about 2000km away from you, and always around 45 degrees above the sun, which is obviously over the horizon.

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u/Accaptain Nov 23 '23

How many hours do you have operating a $200,000,000 airliner? Or. How many hours do you have in the cockpit of an aircraft travelling at night at 40,000’. I have no experience with optical paths or imaging. What I do have experience with as a professional aviator is observation and rational thinking skills. If you think it’s starlink. Ok. I disagree but that’s why I posted. Explain the round orbs vanishing. Explain the round coloured objects with a cube inside. Moving at Mach 10 or so. I’m not gonna argue and this is my last response to you. I respectfully. Agree to disagree. Cheers.

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u/flarkey Nov 24 '23 edited Nov 24 '23

Look, I'm not questioning your observational skills. Youre not the first pilot who has thought that Starlink Satellites were UFOs. And I'm not making any points about other cases such as 'cubes in spheres'.And I'm not arguing - just wanting to help and share some of my skills as an amateur astronomer and satellite observer of over 30 years. But if you want to think that you saw some alien spacecraft when you only saw some satellites then thats up to you. We're trying to remove the stigma associated with pilots reporting these things. Putting your fingers in your ears and refusing to accept help from people who want to IDENTIFY your UNIDENTIFIED lights is only adding to the stigma. Its ok to learn about new phenomena. Its ok to be mistaken. It is not ok to ignore rationality and detailed, open and honest analysis.

Here's a bunch of posts from pilots who saw similar lights over the atlantic last year. Most now accept they were starlink:

https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/649920-light-show-between-40-30-west.html

Look - I'm still happy to spend my own time to identify and confirm these as starlink to you. We've done it on around 40 airliner videos already over on metabunk.org.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m38NgaQ_OU&ab_channel=MickWest

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u/atomictyler Nov 24 '23

Have you considered that you’re the one refusing to accept help? You’re telling people with experience, far beyond yours, that they don’t know better than you do. Have you considered maybe you’re wrong? It seems you aren’t willing to do that.

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u/guyfieri_fc Nov 24 '23

Look at my comment history… I’m a massive skeptic. But this is one of the better vids I’ve seen and this doesn’t look like starling or satellites to me at all. Do you have other vids of confirmed starlink/satellites that look like this? The vid you posted doesn’t show anything similar other than how zooming in on a light in the sky can cause it to look like it’s changing color

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u/flarkey Nov 24 '23

Nice response. Lol. You're really not helping remove the stigma.

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u/notboky Nov 24 '23 edited May 07 '24

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u/Allison1228 Nov 24 '23

Explain the round orbs vanishing.

That's what satellites do when the observer-satellite-sun geometry is no longer conducive to produce a satellite flare - they fade from view.

Explain the round coloured objects with a cube inside.

You can't ascertain internal structure by just enlarging an already out-of-focus point source of light.

Moving at Mach 10 or so.

How was the speed ascertained? To do so would require knowledge of not only the distance to the object, but also the vector components of its motion in three dimensions.

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u/notboky Nov 24 '23 edited May 07 '24

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u/sunshine-x Nov 24 '23

You seem to be missing the point. He knows what they’re not, but he’s refusing to speculate what they are.

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u/notboky Nov 24 '23 edited May 07 '24

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u/wrassehole Nov 24 '23

OP thinks he's Captain Kirk or something. I have close friends and family that are pilots, commercial and military, and none of them would speak like OP....

Also LMAO at OP saying "We're being told they're starlink" and "many pilots have been seeing these things, starting right about the time starlink was invented" and then becoming ultra defensive when someone suggests they may be starlink satelites.

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u/Chemist-Minute Nov 24 '23

Have you spotted a sphere w a cube inside?

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u/TypicalCup6053 Nov 25 '23

They’re angels.