If you encountered the luminous balls described in this video, what would you think they were?
My immediate thought would be that people are very bad at judging motion and distances of context-less dots of light. A little over a year ago we heard many firsthand stories from people who believed they were seeing mysterious orbs fly just above the tops of trees or just over the ground or even below the tops of the trees, through a forest, or making rapid motions that were hard to physically explain, and it turned out they were seeing distant normal aircraft and misjudging the angles and distances to them. Even when it was pointed out that these mistakes were happening people still continued to insist that the witnesses couldn't all be wrong and some of it must have been real. Many of these witnesses even believed they saw these 'orbs' shapeshift from spheres into more defined aircraft that they insisted were not human-made aircraft they were familiar with. The reliability of eyewitness accounts like this is not good, and is not a good basis for drawing conclusions and factual takeaways from.
You can search for patterns among the eyewitnesses and you will find very close similarities. You can build up theory around the categories of things people report seeing and the timings and locations, and try to build a narrative that correlates it with places of interest or dates/times or world events, but this can all just be an illusion. The fact that multiple reports share similarities doesn't necessarily make their accounts more reliable, as in this case with the 'shapeshifting orbs',
they were in fact seeing the same types of things at the same time, but, they were all primed to make similar kinds of misinterpretations by the (mis)information they'd been reading or seeing on TV.
The point I keep trying to make to people is you need to look at all the times people have described anomalous events, in which the factual evidence demonstrates that their description of what happened is either definitely, or very likely, incorrect. And the next time you hear an eyewitness account like it, you should consider all the times and ways similar accounts have been mistaken, and if there's no way to rule out those kinds of mistakes in this story, then it's very possible it is similarly mistaken. Descriptions of miracles or paranormal/"anomalous" events often share similarities because they often involve the witness similarly misinterpreting similar real things.
