Greenland Video of LIghts in the Sky, Martin Kleist

[Mick West]

Source interview:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awml9Z6eF_M


There's one bright light that resembles a plane with landing lights on, and two smaller lights that resemble satellites. Possibly, the bright light is a large satellite, such as the ISS.

The interview is still going, the location so far is "Southern Greenland", but unfortunately, there is no more precision or even a date.

The interviewee is Martin Kleist. He's made a UFO documentary and seems like a true believer. At one point in the documentary trailer they indicate a location and a direction, but it's not clear for which sightings.

 

[Trailblazer]

At one point in the documentary trailer they indicate a location and a direction, but it's not clear for which sightings.

His finger is pointing to Qassiarsuk there.

That doesn't match the location shown at 2:02 in the video but it turns out that is just stock video footage.

 

[Mick West]

Echo file from the portion of the video after the camera move, showing the three object's trajectories, and the star movement.

 

[Mick West]

Cleaned stack of a few frames showing stars (top right logo removed, so might miss a few)

https://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/12775198#annotated

Center (RA, Dec):	(259.299, 22.160)
Center (RA, hms):	17h​ 17m​ 11.863s​
Center (Dec, dms):	+22° 09' 35.880"
Size:	6.51 x 2.92 deg
Radius:	3.565 deg

Under Hercules' foot

 

[Trailblazer]

The airport at 4:36 is Narsarsuaq, just across the fjord from Qassiarsuk.

The photo he shows at 4:15 matches the mountains seen looking to the north-northwest from the airport, which agrees with the direction indicated when they are pointing at the map.

 

[FatPhil]

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Echo file from the portion of the video after the camera move, showing the three object's trajectories, and the star movement.

Is there anything with a wider field of view, so that we can estimate angles?

 

[flarkey]

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I got the same https://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/12775200#annotated

 

[Trailblazer]

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Echo file from the portion of the video after the camera move, showing the three object's trajectories, and the star movement.

Wider context of the mountain skyline. Filmed from near the airport terminal. The boxed talking head hides some of it but the skyline matches.

So the bright light is here:

Google Street View link

The mountain ridge is approximately 10 miles northwest of the airport. As they say in the video, there is nothing beyond but ice cap – although there does seem to be an open fjord behind the ridge.

 

[flarkey]

The mountain ridgeline seems to match here:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Narsarsuaq,+Greenland/@61.1552305,-45.4294643,3a,15y,316.38h,90.59t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sprdFptRDpNRbYsvdC33f8w!2e0!6shttps://streetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com/v1/thumbnail?cb_client=maps_sv.tactile&w=900&h=600&pitch=-0.5892382671985104&panoid=prdFptRDpNRbYsvdC33f8w&yaw=316.3821538665299!7i13312!8i6656!4m6!3m5!1s0x4eabe1a5a82ad921:0x50f11a07e274158d!8m2!3d61.156703!4d-45.4254299!16zL20vMDFzZmxf?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDYwMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw==

edit @Trailblazer - SNAP!

 

[Mick West]

Clean image of the stars with the horizon

To find the time of year we'd have to match the contours of the hills.

Random Sitrec Match 3.75° vertical FOV.
https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?cu....amazonaws.com/1/Greenland/20250604_165459.js

 

[Trailblazer]

I wonder if the bright light could be a plane approaching the airport from Nuuk. Edit: in fact I'm fairly confident that it is - see below.

Playback of an example flight shows that it would appear over those mountains and seem to be moving slightly up and to the left. Blue marker is the airport.

Viewed in Google Earth. Not perfect but perhaps the approach path varies with different flights...

I put a few recent flight paths of flight GL411 from Nuuk to Narsarsuaq in and viewed from the airport terminal. They all appear just over that ridge line.

Seems a striking coincidence that planes would be approaching almost head on, directly above that range of mountains, before turning to make a final approach. I wonder if the UFO sightings were correlated to arrivals at the airport?

With the bright light streak from the video overlaid in position...

Some of the other flight paths seem to be a good match for this daytime object a bit further right, above the flat topped mountain at the end of the ridge.

 

[Mick West]

Here's a better match in Sitrec.

https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?cu....amazonaws.com/1/Greenland/20250604_170908.js

This gives us the direction, and if we have the date we can find the time (and vice-versa), as the stars are always there, just setting at different times of the night (and day, but you can't see them)

 

[flarkey]

I dont think its the ISS. The high latitude of the location and the 51.6° inclination of the ISS's orbit mean that it would only ever appear low to the southern horizon when viewed from Southern Greenland. This UAP light appeared in the North West.

For example, this pass on 28 November 2024.

 

[flarkey]

Instagram post with a comment....


Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKfH8osIDOb/

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DD5yhvSoNOQ/



Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DD8XSmdo6Bo/?igsh=MW1yb2plYThvOXR2cg%3D%3D

 

[Mick West]

I've emailed Ross, asking if he could help with the date and time

 

[Mick West]

Looking at the flight history of GL413, it seems like there might be gaps in the coverage.

FlightAware is even worse, showing only a few flights in May. ADSBx does not seem to show any low altitude flights in that area, even when I try to match it with the 03 Dec flight, which landed at 4:14PM (17:15 UTC)

 

[flarkey]

Posted without comment.

Source

 

[Trailblazer]

Is that date American or European format though?

 

[Mick West]

Is that date American or European format though?

It has to be US, (Dec 6) as Jun 12 would put it at 10AM local time (daylight) - based on lining up the stars (turn off "Atmosphere" in Lighting)

 

[Mendel]

As an aside:

Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DD8XSmdo6Bo/?igsh=MW1yb2plYThvOXR2cg%3D%3D

These papers both have Rhawn Joseph as primary author, Impey is named 3rd on that "Impey at al." paper, which should be cited as "Joseph et al." as well. The papers are both published at a pay-to-publish journal without peer review, and the quality is as expected. See https://www.metabunk.org/threads/shapeshifting-color-changing-orbs-plasmanoids.14222/post-345184 for details.

 

[Mick West]

There's a live webcam of the airport, but unfortunately

• The area of interest is just off the right side
• There are no archives I can find
• It's summer now, so light all the time

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qjUhPCFA9o

 

[Edward Current]

Posted without comment.

Source

Google translation of the text on that Instgram post. The team seems slightly less than objective documentarians.

Today I'm leaving the US and heading back to Denmark.

It's not easy to cross the border in the US, and I thought it probably wasn't the smartest idea to tell people that I came for the UFOs at the border control. It wasn't a particularly fun experience to come in and be questioned like that and actually planted an unpleasant fear in me.

There are many emotions associated with dealing with this topic, and I was confronted with that to a certain extent here. I would really like to make an episode about that. How we should relate to the 'ontological' shock, unpleasant future predictions, how one can become completely absorbed by the topic. And maybe even become a little paranoid. ‍

I went over here to meet one of those who believe they are in contact with the 'phenomenon' - a very special man named @christopherlentzbledsoe. And he is a special man to that extent. A man who embodies a presence and a love that I have rarely encountered. A deeply religious man who believes he receives prophetic messages from the UFO phenomenon, and who is supposed to be able to bring UFOs into the sky with the power of thought.

That sounds exciting - but most of all, I have actually experienced that I had to deal with a fear inside myself about this subject that I did not know existed in that way. One evening, while we were out looking at the night sky with Chris Bledsoe, I met a wonderfully sweet lady of 75. A therapist who specializes in the emotions associated with being interested in the subject. That was probably just what I needed. I will do an interview with her.

I will also talk about everything I have experienced over here, when I have just digested it. But right now I am just looking forward to getting home. See my family again. Especially my little nephew. When you're so far away, what's close to you suddenly becomes the most important thing. Not everything that's out there.

I'm a little worried about what it's going to be like getting out of the US again, so please send me some loving thoughts on my way out.

 

[Maury Markowitz]

Looking at the flight history of GL413, it seems like there might be gaps in the coverage.

Given the times, the last being at 3PM landing, it would have to be winter if it's this flight, But it could be any coming from that direction going into Nuuk, depending on the winds.

I've written to the flight planning people for Greenland to see if they have a searchable database.

 

[Mick West]

I sent a DM to @UFOrklarligt on X, asking for the exact date and time, and the original video.

 

[Mick West]

It has to be US, (Dec 6) as Jun 12 would put it at 10AM local time (daylight) - based on lining up the stars (turn off "Atmosphere" in Lighting)

And this post is from Dec 19, 2024, and says "About two weeks ago", which would be about Dec 5

Source: https://x.com/UFOrklarligt/status/1869767957108207650

 

[MapperGuy]

Another video that ends too soon...
Before it becomes obvious that it is just an airplane I assume.

The way the brightness changes certainly suggests an airplane that is initially flying toward the camera position and as it gets closer its orientation becomes more toward the left of, and above, the camera position.

 

[Mick West]

Another video that ends too soon...
Before it becomes obvious that it is just an airplane I assume.

The way the brightness changes certainly suggests an airplane that is initially flying toward the camera position and as it gets closer its orientation becomes more toward the left of, and above, the camera position.

It would have to turn quite some distance away, for them not to see it enter the pattern and land.

The original video presumably has more.

 

[JMartJr]

It would have to turn quite some distance away, for them not to see it enter the pattern and land.

The original video presumably has more.

Of course, almost definitionally, any video that gets submitted as UFO evidence will be missing the bit where you can suddenly tell what it was. That may be through chicanery, with the give-away bit edited out, but may also be just by chance as some other reason prevented that part from being filmed, or even being seen.

 

[Trailblazer]

Another video that ends too soon...
Before it becomes obvious that it is just an airplane I assume.

The way the brightness changes certainly suggests an airplane that is initially flying toward the camera position and as it gets closer its orientation becomes more toward the left of, and above, the camera position.

Yes exactly my thoughts. In videos like this you tend to get an "orb turning into a drone", that is a bright fairly stationary light that then transforms into a faster moving object with flashing lights. I reckon if the video kept rolling then the flashing lights of the plane would become obvious as it headed more horizontally across the field of view.

Regarding flight paths: the most usual flight path into the airport from the northwest turns to the right (southwards) and then loops round to land on runway 06 (landing from the southwest), as in the screenshot I posted earlier.
However depending on the weather they will sometimes turn left and land on runway 24 (from the northeast).

The video in question matches a flight heading for runway 06. The daytime photo of object over the mountain would match a flight heading for runway 24.

 

[Mick West]

Lining things up, the camera locations seemed to be around the Hostel Narsarsuaq - and interestingly you can't see the planes land from there, as the runway is humped, and kind of behind a hill.

 

[Easy Muffin]

There's a live webcam of the airport, but unfortunately

• The area of interest is just off the right side
• There are no archives I can find
• It's summer now, so light all the time

There's a second live stream named 'Airport East,' although in fact it seems to be pointed almost exactly north (well to be fair, it's probably named that because it's looking over the eastern part of the airport). This one has the interesting area off to the left, and obviously it too is in daylight pretty much constantly this time of year.
But there is a 24-hour recording from back in February. This is the first part.



I don't think there's any aircraft movements before sunrise so probably not too helpful. I did however happen upon a moving light in the sky - go to 57:20, it appears as the clock ticks over to 7:02 and is visible for about 15 seconds. Can't say if this is a regular occurence, I pretty much clicked on random parts of the video for a minute or so and then this light showed up, and I haven't got all that much time to spare today to give it a closer look.

EDIT: I should add my first hunch is it's just a flaring sat.

 

[Mick West]

I sent a DM to @UFOrklarligt on X, asking for the exact date and time, and the original video.

I've not heard back yet, but I emailed Ross to ask the same thing, and he forwarded my email to Martin.

 

[Ravi]

I don't think there's any aircraft movements before sunrise so probably not too helpful. I did however happen upon a moving light in the sky - go to 57:20, it appears as the clock ticks over to 7:02 and is visible for about 15 seconds. Can't say if this is a regular occurence, I pretty much clicked on random parts of the video for a minute or so and then this light showed up, and I haven't got all that much time to spare today to give it a closer look.

EDIT: I should add my first hunch is it's just a flaring sat.

It is a lens reflection caused by the bright headlights from the car below it.

 

[Easy Muffin]

It is a lens reflection caused by the bright headlights from the car below it.

Nicely spotted, that does seem like what's going on here. Around 7:09 there's another vehicle pass with a similar reflection, that would clinch it I suppose.

 

[Ravi]

Nicely spotted, that does seem like what's going on here. Around 7:09 there's another vehicle pass with a similar reflection, that would clinch it I suppose.

Much obliged. The video is also a great example of how bright simple (car) lights can appear to be, on camera.