Strange Lights over Georgia

[flarkey]

Recently I've seen two videos showing reports of strange glowing lights in the night sky over Georgia. The first was on a Reddit thread that has now been deleted, but the original YouTube videos are still there. These were taken from Lake Sinclair looking East.


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8lSsV4YBCw&t=102s



Source: https://youtu.be/hGgd7ih_XS0?t=130


And another video was reported on X by RangerH338 who is a known UAP enthusiast (here's another thread investigating a sighting). And although his precise location location isnt known the Ohoopee River isn't very long. I think he's looking towards the North.


Source: https://x.com/i/status/2001466759010795741


Upon close inspection of the videos it seems the 'bright flashes' are at the same spot as pre & post 'small flashes' that resemble aircraft nav lights. I think they have been seeing the glow from fighterplane afterburners . The two (suspected) lines of sight converge onin the Bulldog Military Operations Area (MOA) which is just SouthWest of Augusta Georgia.

What do you think...?

 

[jarlrmai]

I think that the new wave of cheaper low light cameras are boon for those inclined to see the strange in the mundane. Thanks Sionyx

 

[JMartJr]

I think they have been seeing the glow from fighterplane afterburners .

You may be right. I also wonder if planes might be dropping short-lived flares, or might be turning landing lights on momentarily or some reason (or have them on and turn in such a way that they are shining towards us for a moment) or even helicopters turning spotlights on or towards us.. But they have something of a burning/flickering quality that says, to me, flares or afterburners might be more likely.

 

[Mick West]

I think the brighter lights resemble IR countermeasure flares. Some examples.

But the timing and duration seem a bit irregular.

I don't know if afterburners can be that bright.

 

[John J.]

What do you think...?

I think it might be significant that the claimants haven't tried to establish what there is along their lines of sight (or if they have, they haven't shared that information in their videos).

"Lights in the sky I can't identify" can be interesting, "Lights in the sky I can't identify in a military airspace training area where tactical aircraft train for [amongst other things] suppression of enemy air defences"* might be interesting, but less likely to be truly mysterious, though elements of the training schedule/ kit used might be classified.

*E.g., "Wild Weasels train for next fight", Shaw Air Force Base website (US government), 20 Nov. 2017 https://www.shaw.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1377398/wild-weasels-train-for-next-fight/
Edited to add: Thinking about Mick's post above, aircraft training for the suppression of air defences might well make use of decoy flares and other countermeasures, though use of flares isn't limited to that role.

 

[jdog]

I think that the new wave of cheaper low light cameras are boon for those inclined to see the strange in the mundane. Thanks Sionyx

Moving the previously unseen into the LIZ.

 

[flarkey]

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I think the brighter lights resemble IR countermeasure flares. Some examples.

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But the timing and duration seem a bit irregular.

I don't know if afterburners can be that bright.

what makes me think they are not flares it's that they are just happening as singles, not multiples like the Phoenix lights. Flares are usually dispensed as multiples and can be in specific patterns depending on the threat.

I've seen afterburners from a distance over the North Sea and they do look like a very bright star. I don't know what they would like like through an image amplifier like the Syonyx camera.

 

[Mick West]

. I don't know what they would like like through an image amplifier like the Syonyx camera.

Like this:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIvePtTjRSM


Impressively bright!