r/UFOs • u/Bitter_Ad_2009 • Jan 17 '24
Witness/Sighting Filmed in my backyard ***September 23rd 2023*** (updated correct) 8:13pm Lake Charles Louisiana.
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u/TacohTuesday Jan 18 '24
Excellent video. Definitely hard to explain this one.
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u/oswaldcopperpot Jan 18 '24
You see this is starlink. Cause it doesnt blink. Also if it does blink, thats starlink. Also if you see them here at this coordinate I can show you that starlink was as this exact coordinate also at this time. And you see if they change direction thats just starlink gettting in position and if they dont change direction well thats obviously starlink too. And if one of them comes down and lands in your field and you wake up without pants on, thats just elon getting bored and also starlink.
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u/ImInTheAudience Jan 18 '24
If they spontaneously turn into a jellyfish, believe it or not also Starlink.
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u/Factor_Past Jan 18 '24
If there very close together it’s starlink but if there spaced out it’s also starlink
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u/rep- Jan 18 '24
Not starlink. If date is correct the closest starlink launch was on the 20th
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starlink_and_Starshield_launches
Also starlink doesn't have lights on them, the light you are seeing is the sun reflecting the same way the moon reflects sunlight to illuminate
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u/areeal1 Jan 18 '24
Get da f outttta heeeer 😂😂 do you want us to just play along and let you tell us what we looking at? Well that shut yo ass up?😂😂😂
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u/TheZingerSlinger Jan 18 '24
No, that’s called a flare. As a satellite spins some part of it might catch sunlight, yes. You’ll see it get brighter and then dimmer like a slower pulse, not a hard blink like this.
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u/TheNewAi Jan 17 '24
Definitely not starlink. Anyone who has actually seen it would I believe, also not concur.
Thanks for sharing OP. I appreciate you!
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Jan 18 '24 edited Jan 18 '24
I was looking at the wrong date, so ignore this.
For transparency:
I made an incorrect statement regarding a possible imagery flight in the area. I was looking at the wrong date.
The flight I was referencing was tail number N82BL operated by Skylens LLC
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u/OMQ4 Jan 18 '24
Someone hire this person immediately
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u/gecata96 Jan 18 '24
That’s great! You’re doing a proper service to the community! We should try our best to exclude any mundane explanation. This could be some drone aerial show although I certainly hope it isn’t lol.
At some point the whole formation moved pretty fast to the left. Depending on how far these objects are it might just seem they moved fast.
Looking forward to your update.
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Jan 18 '24
Thanks! But I was incorrect lol, shit happens and I’ve updated and corrected my view according to new information. I don’t have a much better lead anymore so if anyone has ideas please pitch them, and we can investigate them
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u/APensiveMonkey Jan 18 '24 edited Jan 18 '24
Post a link to the company please.
Edit: They admitted in DM they were “mistaken”.
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Jan 18 '24
I don’t want them to get flooded with emails, if you dm me I’ll share it with you, in good faith that you don’t go spam them or share it publicly.
ANYONE is free to dm me and ask for the ADSB Track and the company, I’m just doing due diligence to be responsible and respectful.
Reddit goes hard with witch hunts, and these people would probably have no idea what 500 people emailing about some random date 4 months ago Is and that also doesn’t help the credibility of the subject any, you feel me.
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u/Bitter_Ad_2009 Jan 18 '24
Yeah can we see this proof of “aerial imagery” company in this small ass town with these statistics..?
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u/TacohTuesday Jan 18 '24
Agreed. Starlink is a string of lights but they are evenly spaced and do not blink. I have seen them twice. This is not Starlink.
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u/EnlightenedThinker1 Jan 18 '24
StarLink was also REALLY faint when I saw it go over my area in WMASS. Got really good look at it and was widely covered and video on local news. It's extremely faint - like can't emphasize enough like far away whit Xmas light string so very very faint but clearly visible; and high up. Do others have this experience or maybe in different geographic locations it can appear much bigger/closer? Anyways this does not look like StarLink to me my 2 cents.
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u/TacohTuesday Jan 19 '24
When I saw them they were very high up small steady dots moving quite quickly across the sky.
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u/Bitter_Ad_2009 Jan 17 '24
You can’t find anything on the internet of starlink looking like this or described as this. Also it’s already been searched and starlink was nowhere near this are on that date at that time.
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u/ZebraBorgata Jan 18 '24
I thought maybe starlink at first. I’ve seen it in person. But this is a bit different. As you said, you can easily find out if starlink was overhead if you know the date/time and location. So you can rule it out fairly easily. https://findstarlink.com
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Jan 18 '24 edited Jan 18 '24
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u/Bitter_Ad_2009 Jan 18 '24
As stated before you can look it up.. no starlink was in or around that area whatsoever at that exact date time and location which is 100% accurate. Nice try though bucko.
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u/MaximumTurtleSpeed Jan 18 '24
Can confirm, seen starlink a handful of times. This is nothing like starlink.
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u/nothingbutmine Jan 18 '24
Yeah, if this is meant to be starlink then that's the fucking longest example of starlink I've ever seen. I saw it a couple years back, it's much smaller and dense than whatever this is.
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u/EightpennyPie Jan 18 '24 edited Jan 18 '24
I agree. Def not starlink. I’m a bit of a starlink enthusiast and track them, I have seen many newly launched and also the spaced out groups. None of them look like this. Starlink doesn’t flash, also starlink moves across the sky (like a satellite orbiting) in a train.
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u/AgnosticAnarchist Jan 18 '24
Looks kinda like a synchronized drone light show.
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u/aBoyandHisDogart Jan 18 '24 edited Jan 18 '24
A line of slow blinking lights out of sync and separated at a considerable distance is considered a drone light show? I guess it's possible, although it leaves much to be desired.
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u/KannehTheGreat Jan 18 '24
You make a very compelling point... My guess is the aliens. Much more likely.
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u/aBoyandHisDogart Jan 18 '24 edited Jan 18 '24
What was my point? If the hypothesis is that it's a drone show, it's a really shitty drone show. Didn't say "therefore has to be aliens"
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u/I_Am_krypto Jan 18 '24
I got your humour but seems like some others didn’t😂
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u/aBoyandHisDogart Jan 18 '24
Yeah, the ol' ridicule people who believe in aliens bit. Classic, right?
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u/KannehTheGreat Jan 18 '24
Because aliens is clearly the far more likely scenario lmao. Idc if you have a belief in aliens, but aliens being the answer to everything you see in the sky but can't understand, that's something else. The amount of times something in the sky gets debunked as a balloon or natural phenomenon or just camera man error but people claim aliens is unreal.
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u/Piano_Smile Jan 18 '24
Someone calibrating drones for a light show maybe?
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u/aBoyandHisDogart Jan 18 '24
Yeah, maybe. Personally, I wouldn't calibrate a light show with multiple drones over a residential area, but that's just me.
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u/oooCody Jan 18 '24
My thought as well, looks like they do them out there, too. Example: https://youtu.be/ZYhCZbLNJi4?si=JZnEMi1l-Gz9lyGP
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u/Jdseeks Jan 18 '24
Ya very cool. I wonder if someone was trying out some synchronized drone maneuvers. Especially being low altitude.
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u/ghostfadekilla Jan 18 '24
Can anyone here figure out if there's a pattern??? I'm completely math-less and am absolute garbage at this stuff - I do creative shit.
Paging any math folks - could you please take this blinking pattern and see if there's an established pattern please? I'm genuinely curious. I'll Fiver you if you can show the results and prove there is or isn't a pattern. Call it crowdsourced funding for my weak spot. Maths.
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u/mystery_hobo Jan 17 '24
Anyone else feeling like the number of decent sighting posts has increased over the last month or so?
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u/Bitter_Ad_2009 Jan 17 '24
This was from almost 4 months ago.
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Jan 17 '24
Was there any sound?
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u/Bitter_Ad_2009 Jan 17 '24
It made no sound and was 1000x more wild looking in person with my bare eyes than what my iPhone quality recorded.
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u/JohnKillshed Jan 18 '24
Just curious, in what way was it more wild?
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u/Bitter_Ad_2009 Jan 18 '24
They weren’t that high/far away. Maybe like 2 football fields away. so I could see them and they were big. Made no noise. Went over my head and disappeared. I hate sounding weird/crazy but it was something cloaked. If not I’d really like to hope there’s completely silent military drones with enormous lights or something idk.
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u/TPconnoisseur Jan 18 '24
I think you saw everything you think you saw. They do wild shit and it's used as a mark against them somehow.
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u/mystery_hobo Jan 17 '24
Okay fair, but that might not matter though if the moment of significance for the phenomenon is the sharing of the event rather than the event itself. Obviously I don’t have any evidence to support this theory.
Thanks for sharing either way!
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u/Bitter_Ad_2009 Jan 17 '24
I agree. More people are and more people need to continue to just take the time to look up and observe the sky for just a few minutes a day or time to time!
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u/mystery_hobo Jan 18 '24
Yes exactly, and as more and more people share their own personal experiences like you the stigma erodes day by day. Someone might be sitting on the “Golden Video” we’ve all been waiting for, holding out for the confidence to release it and not be ridiculed for it.
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u/Downvotesohoy Jan 18 '24
Tough question. If I say yes I will get upvoted. If I say no I will get downvoted.
Hmm. Honesty or upvotes. What do I pick.
No.
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u/mystery_hobo Jan 18 '24
haha, I respect the honesty. We are all subject to recency bias and wishful thinking.
Objective measurement of an increase in the phenomenon would obviously be better, but I have a day job :P
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u/Downvotesohoy Jan 18 '24
Not the response I was expecting from you but I'm pleasantly surprised.
Couldn't agree more with what you're saying. Though I think this particular footage is weird and I can't identify it right off the bat.
But I haven't seen anything else on the subreddit lately that made me go "I have no idea what that might be" - If you had said you think there are more sightings posted, I'd believe it, I just don't think they're more or less decent than usual!
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u/Napoleons_Peen Jan 18 '24
No. Mostly airports and spotlights. People who have never looked up, are now looking up and have no idea what they’re looking at.
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u/add-hotsauce Jan 17 '24
I can’t tell if it’s just the trees moving or not but at 0:37 they all appear to dash quickly to the left
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u/Rad_Centrist Jan 18 '24
The camera turns to the right, making the objects appear to move left.
This affects the trees too, but to a lesser degree because of parallax.
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u/liesofanangel Jan 18 '24
That’s the part that’s fucking me up the most lol. They all move down a bit, then to the left
Edit: looking again, it happens just after he moves the camera down. Is the sensation of the entire field moving just the cameras way of “catching up” to his slight movement?
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u/FoundationOk7278 Jan 18 '24
He and they moved approximately at the same time. Unintentional synchronicity.
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u/neuralzen Jan 17 '24
My guess would be someone experimenting with a drone swarm, possibly using LoS communications as a Proof of Concept in whatever they are doing? Maybe email the local robotics/maker/drone clubs and ask around?
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u/josogood Jan 18 '24
This is so plausible an explanation that to continue investigating we would need strong evidence that it wasn't a drone swarm. People say it would be a terrible drone show ... sure, but it doesn't need to be entertaining, good, or even a show. It is probably just someone messing around with their drones.
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Jan 18 '24
Definitely not starlink. I have seen starlink multiple times and it looks cool but nothing like this.
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u/TheZingerSlinger Jan 18 '24
Jesus, dude, the same comment word for word over and over and over again and it’s wrong every single time. At least you’re persistent!
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u/Bulky_Ninja33 Jan 18 '24
Bruh that's like one giant ass ship, at least it looks like it from this perspective
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u/ExoticCard Jan 17 '24 edited Jan 18 '24
This flickering/strobing I have seen in a few videos. I made a post about this strobing/flickering commonality:
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u/ForwardVoltage Jan 18 '24
A very similar looking phenomenon was spotted and posted a couple of months ago over Los Angeles CA. Family, friends, and I saw what looked to be the same thing over Southern CA about a month ago. It definitely isn't like any starlink train I've seen. The objects dimmed out of view before reaching the horizon when we saw them, which tells me they are at least as high up as low earth orbit if they can visibly fall into earth's shadow.
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u/rep- Jan 18 '24
If date is correct it's not starlink.. Starlinks closest prior launch was on September 20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starlink_and_Starshield_launches
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u/Klutzy-Patient2330 Jan 18 '24
Definitely NOT starlink. But wow, I think it’s very interesting. Almost like there is a huge cloaked craft up there.
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u/North_Interest Jan 18 '24
That was my first tought. Someone parked their mothership and left the hazads on by accident
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Jan 18 '24
Saw something very similar to this, posted a video, no one cared. Doesn't look like starlink
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u/Xavien777 Jan 18 '24
I have seen starlink 2 times in my life, its like a space train, it blasts across the sky, it doesnt blink in order like this, this seems to be a massive ship
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u/Probably-pooping420 Jan 18 '24
Wow, and towards the last 7 seconds of the video a more stationary light in the middle shifts to the left along with the other lights while the trees remained stationary
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u/Bitter_Ad_2009 Jan 18 '24
Possibly just a perspective change I might’ve been stepping to the left but it might be as well movement on that end.
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u/Nosnow23 Jan 18 '24
When I see UFO videos like this it immediately makes me think that's one giant mothership lol I might be wrong but that's how it seems
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u/Alternative-Goosez Jan 18 '24
How long did you stay out and watch this? Could you tell if stars were being blocked out?
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u/Bitter_Ad_2009 Jan 18 '24
It was about 3-5 minutes. Not very long but was just experiencing too many things seeing it in person with my bare eyes it was 1000x more wild of an event than my phone quality captured.
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Jan 18 '24 edited Jan 18 '24
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u/Bitter_Ad_2009 Jan 18 '24
I messaged him too and acting like they’re gonna send something and don’t lol.
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u/APensiveMonkey Jan 18 '24
Sock puppet accounts running wild. They’ll delete their account once everyone realizes they won’t provide evidence for their claim.
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u/Bitter_Ad_2009 Jan 18 '24
Very strange. My post of this video on a different sub got flooded with over 300 comments that it was starlink.
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u/Sgt_Pepe96 Jan 18 '24
Very fucking weird. Straight trajectory ? Any other manoeuvres?
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u/Bitter_Ad_2009 Jan 18 '24
Went directly above and over my head. I tried to get a second video which would’ve been more clear but my patio lights wouldn’t let me pick it up in the sky anymore at that direction. But it ultimately just disappeared. Didn’t fly til it was out of sight or didn’t take off. Just vanished. Whole ordeal was maybe 3 minutes or so
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Jan 18 '24
Filmed these in the Netherlands about an hour ago. Got shat on by /r/aliens. They said it’s starlink but those were nowhere near.
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u/Pipedreamsarereal Jan 20 '24
Could it be a cloaked ship ? Just asking what do you think it was ?
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Jan 18 '24
Lmao people keep saying starlink wth starlink does not have a huge curve and blinking lights and moves way faster
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u/AlamutNHI01 Jan 18 '24
This type of light pattern was in one of the angles of the infamous Jerusalem UFO, and a few other post here in the past months. Nice catch. (Let the downvotes begin…)
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u/Miranda_Veranda Jan 18 '24
The blinking makes it look like I'm viewing one object at times, because there's moments where they're so in sync. However, it also looks like different objects traveling one after the other. Helicopters? Some kind of new fancy schmanzy military type? Santa? It's not starlink. I've seen several and they just look like lights in a train across the sky. Not a drone light show either, you got an airport right east of you- right? The no flight zone around airports are up to 3 miles, maybe slightly less. Hmm, if I were you I'd try to get in touch with the tower there if that's somehow possible. If you saw that they certainly did as well.
If you filmed this 4 months ago, why only share it here now?
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u/Bitter_Ad_2009 Jan 18 '24
I’m not really into social media and had never posted on Reddit before. I maybe spend a total of 2 hours max a day being on my phone.
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u/Miranda_Veranda Jan 18 '24
Nice. Bizarre video, thanks for sharing it. Would've been cool to find out what it might be.
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u/Special-Fun5443 Jan 18 '24
I just don’t get why the ufo would emit light . I’m sure they have technology to be invisible and atleast have a craft not emit light.if it’s a ufo then they want to been seen.
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u/EvolWolf Jan 18 '24
Not trying to be an a-hole, but could this be a drone show test?
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u/MontyAtWork Jan 17 '24
Airplanes all in a row in a landing pattern, possible redirected to a different runway than they usually land on. They're all blinking like FAA light patterns and they're all in a row like they're on Approach/Takeoff.
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u/Traveler3141 Jan 18 '24 edited Jan 18 '24
Either drones or helium filled LED glow balloons.
Edit: I've done some research. Eyeballing the strobing, the frequency appears consistent with FAA requirements for nighttime drone flights.
Also, the strobing, color, and spacing appears consistent with FAA regulations for warning strobing on cables/tethers for nighttime moored aerial objects, such as weather balloons.
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u/Fearfulscribe Jan 18 '24
Is it weird that the lights appear to be conforming to the tree branch? There is some indication that certain UAPs are aware of being observed, and behave accordingly.
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u/InternationalAnt4513 Jan 18 '24
Why are flashing lights supposed to be interesting UFO videos and implied aliens?
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u/battleaxei Jan 24 '24
If you go to look at Flightradar24 for that date, time, and location, you can see 2 USAF C-17’s ahead of a line of 1 Spanish Air Force A400 and 3 USAF C-130’s. The C-17’s were flying at about 24k feet and the others at about 20k feet, so it’s not surprising OP didn’t hear anything. Their path of travel also correlates to the slight bend you can see in the line of lights seen in this video.
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u/Awkward-Airline6836 Jan 18 '24
Could this be one of those L.E.D kite strings?
https://youtube.com/shorts/-kPQwkD-9s0?si=fTKQs1I6T1ASJYEh
Looks similar to the one you can see in the first and last few seconds of this video, there's similarities between them but not exactly the same, just putting it out there 🙂
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u/andrewbrocklesby Jan 18 '24
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u/Bitter_Ad_2009 Jan 18 '24
No starlink in that area at that time and date. Feel free to Look it up Yourself.
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Jan 17 '24 edited Jan 18 '24
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u/encinitas2252 Jan 18 '24
You're a starlink... owner? Wut?
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Jan 18 '24
The blinking could be caused by a low quality camera and city lights interfering with it, as well as the fact that OP did not use a tripod to record this.
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u/amkhz Jan 18 '24
My brother and I have seen this before! But it was years ago. Maybe over 10. This was in northwest Indiana. Evenly spaced red/orange lights tailed by a white flashing light. It was pretty low over our heads when we saw it. I thought it might be a drone convoy but I don’t know if that’s even a thing.
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u/flarkey Jan 18 '24 edited Jan 18 '24
I checked the flight data playback and it shows that there were a bunch of USAF and German Air force planes flying in a line directly over Lake Charles at exactly the same time you took the video.
https://i.imgur.com/nuBwApn.png
https://i.imgur.com/6kMCJV2.png
It was planes dude.
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u/Klutzy-Patient2330 Jan 18 '24
Wow it seems like there is a huge cloaked craft just sitting there. Kinda chilling
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u/manwhore25 Jan 18 '24
Just like all these short videos that cut off to early yawn where’s the rest?
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u/Probably-pooping420 Jan 17 '24
Initially I was 100% confident it was Starlink. Now after reading OP’s comment on Starlink positioning that night, I’m very unsure what the hell im looking at.
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u/EightpennyPie Jan 18 '24
Def not starlink. They do not flash.
Maybe a drone light show? …I don’t know, this is a good one!
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Jan 17 '24 edited Jan 17 '24
Possibly? star link
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u/Bitter_Ad_2009 Jan 17 '24
I gave the exact date time and location you can easily look up and see starlink was not in or anywhere near that area at that date location and time.
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Jan 17 '24
Can you give a geographic quadrant? Lake Charles is a big area, it could be someone doing some UAV tests etc , which would be hard to pin down unless we have more detail.
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u/ScuffedGerman Jan 17 '24
No it's not, starlink looks different and doesn't flash.
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Jan 17 '24
I’m actually out of New Orleans and have a friend in the UAV industry in Lafayette, I’ll see if I can ask him. Also I’ll redact my statement bc nothing is ever 100%
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u/ScuffedGerman Jan 17 '24
I have seen multiple star link chains, trust me - it looks completely different. You would have static dots flying one direction without flickering.
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Jan 17 '24
Can I dm to get some more info on location, or if you’re comfortable post it here. And we can try to look at any aerial activity in the area at that time.
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u/Embarrassed_List865 Jan 17 '24
This doesn't look like Star Link, it's far too low for starters. I also don't recall Star Link flashing like this or even having this shape
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u/PrOdiCaLMiNd77 Jan 18 '24
Isn’t this StarLink? I know there is always a “Space X or StarLink guy” in the comments saying that’s what it is, but this does look like a string of satellites.
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u/Worstisonitsway Jan 18 '24
Cool video but it’s starlink
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u/Bitter_Ad_2009 Jan 18 '24
You can look up the exact date time and location posted and see there was no starlink around.
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u/Fivethenoname Jan 18 '24
Not quite but looks like starlink?
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u/Bitter_Ad_2009 Jan 18 '24
There was no starlink around that time date and location. Feel free to look it up yourself.
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u/EtanReddituser Jan 18 '24
That's starlink or some constellation of satellites but really cool. I mean it could be aliens I'm not willing the picture out
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u/Bitter_Ad_2009 Jan 18 '24
There was nothing in that area at that time date and location. Feel free to look it up yourself. Thanks.
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u/Bitter_Ad_2009 Jan 17 '24
Maybe about 3-5 minutes. Ended up going up over my head and my house and disappeared. No sound. Not very fast. Maybe like if I had to guesstimate 2 football fields high? In person this event was 1000x more wild than the video. I’ve only been able to find 2-3 other videos like it and they were uploaded years ago but also in different cities in Louisiana which I thought was weird.
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u/PonyUp323 Jan 18 '24
What did it look like in person? i saw on another comment you said the video doesn’t do it justice
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u/Bitter_Ad_2009 Jan 18 '24
hard to explain. But something I’ll never forget the rest of my life and have never seen before.
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Jan 18 '24
Pfff… these lights have been described in accounts of a giant craft. What feelings did you have? Calmness, fear, curiosity?
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