Claim: UFO over Gaziantep Airport in Turkiye halts flights - Feb 18, 2025

[ManInBlack]

This is what we know...

Flights were suspended at Gaziantep Airport on Monday night after pilots reported a luminous, unidentified flying object (UFO).

At around 10:00 p.m. local time (GMT+3), pilots of an aircraft reported spotting a bright, unidentified object at an altitude of approximately 8,000 to 10,000 feet. UFO alert in Türkiye's 6th biggest city led to a brief chaos at the airpot

The object, which did not appear on radar, was reported to air traffic control, prompting authorities to halt flights as a precaution.

Source: https://www.turkiyetoday.com/turkiye/ufo-alert-in-turkiyes-gaziantep-flights-halted-120856/

There is a video however it is not clear if it is real or it was created to recount the incident

Source
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHcFx7aAA9g
(from 1:02 minutes)

Looks like a drone, which is mentioned in the article.

 

[Trailblazer]

The article describes the object as "bright" and "luminous", but the video doesn't seem to show that.

 

[JMartJr]

Would an airliner have equipment with cross hairs and such, looking like a cheap knock off of the old Navy vids, for shooting video like this?

 

[FatPhil]

Would an airliner have equipment with cross hairs and such, looking like a cheap knock off of the old Navy vids, for shooting video like this?

And what does the 'N' represent?

Also, the movement of the thing looks more like a C64 sprite (heck, it would probably fit in 24x21 pixels) than an object with mass moving under its own acceleration. Instantanious acceleration peaks enormously, and the jerk associated with such acceleration is likewise off the scale. So if it's real, it's very small.