Reddit "drone/uap" that turns into a plane

[jarlrmai]

This thread was posted to Reddit


Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1hawy7s/unexplained_aircraft_north_carolina/


It shows a light filmed from a car the video starts here:

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.4538985,-78.1142512,3a,75y,273.43h,84.75t/data=!3m10!1e1!3m8!1szdeI-37b430Q_k2aWGCYPg!2e0!6shttps://streetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com/v1/thumbnail?cb_client=maps_sv.tactile&w=900&h=600&pitch=5.253091607673085&panoid=zdeI-37b430Q_k2aWGCYPg&yaw=273.4272663438177!7i16384!8i8192!9m2!1b1!2i25?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIwOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw==

Sure! It was Saturday December 7th 2024 11:42pm in Currie, NC

At the time and on the date they were filming a plane, an American Airlines A319 reg BN737US flight AAL357 was on approach to Wilmington.

Driving down that road they and it would have been approaching each other looking at it's landing lights, later as it passed they would see it side on and as in the video you would see the other strobe lights.

It should be noted that the OP in this case is not adamant it not a plane, but they are curious about what aircraft it could be and they seem to have a leaning towards less mundane subjects.

 

[john.phil]

The author of the video replied in the thread that she knew it was a plane:

Strangewithoutacause OP
I am a paranormal investigator, tattoo artist, musician, and all around creative. I love mysteries, the paranormal, psychology, and learning about consciousness and spirituality.

I know there's a lot of fake videos out there trying to prove something, but I swear that I didn't cut the audio. I'm actually pissed I lost the audio because I'm explaining what I'm hearing and seeing and the fact that I realized it was a plane as it flew over me. I didn't think it was anything unusual until I reviewed the video and noticed that I lost the audio. And it's very strange to me because on another occasion recently where I filmed another low flying, slow moving aircraft, my audio also went out in that video, with no explanation. And the white noise in that video also produced some kind of pulsing static as well. Those two videos are the only videos that I've taken on this brand new phone where the audio has cut out unexplainably. I know it's hard to trust people out there but it's the truth and I understand if you don't believe it. Thank you for your comment either way, I appreciate you participating in this conversation. Here is a video I made detailing my other sightings, including disappearing orbs and the other low flying craft I filmed near my house. My YT channel is Spirit Realm Investigations and I have full videos of the unexplained orbs and other sightings that I believe are all connected in some way
Source: https://youtu.be/hB7RjPCCtdA?si=lffI6UDJlMKWP2zX
. Possibly military, most likely human produced aircraft, but the orbs have me curious. And unfortunately I wasn't able to film two of my close up sightings, but I can tell you they were the same thing as what I was able to film on November 16th 2024. In the close up sightings, the golden glowing orbs were an estimated 3-400ft in altitude and an estimated 250 yards in front of me. It slowly flew in my direction and then slowly faded out and disappeared completely. The same thing happened 2 years before in a different location. Because I saw them so closely, I can't deny that they were there (whatever they were) and then they were completely gone. So if I had just filmed them from far away I would be less inclined to believe they were unusual and unexplainable. So I just wanted to give some context there and explain some strange connections to this sighting. As I said, more thorough information in that video I shared above.

source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1hawy7s/comment/m1fje72

 

[jarlrmai]

In short OP is a land of contrasts

 

[Jack Mallory]

They see a plane.
They record the plane.
It looks exactly like a plane.
Behaves exactly like a plane.
Sounds exactly like a plane.
Then, according to the OP, she confirmed it to be a plane as it passed overhead.

So why did she even bother sharing the video in the first place?
These people have way too much time on their hands.

 

[JMartJr]

They see a plane.
They record the plane.
It looks exactly like a plane.
Behaves exactly like a plane.
Sounds exactly like a plane.
Then, according to the OP, she confirmed it to be a plane as it passed overhead.

So why did she even bother sharing the video in the first place?

If I understand correctly, because the sound "mysteriously" cut out, and since she was videoing the lights in the sky, that MUST be what caused the sound to fail, so it can't be a regular plane because planes don't have that capability, even though it visually looked like a plane and was recognized as one -- it MUST be a mysterious plane, at the very least. The other way of looking at it, that it was recognizably a plane and since planes don't make sound cut out on video then something else (flaw in the phone microphone? user error? editing in post?) caused the sound to cut, is not to be considered.

What struck me in the comments was this sort of stuff:

Looks like a drone then either its your focus or it turns into an orb. Note, judging by its rotations and movements it looks like its scanning shit with those green lights on the bottom.

Safe to classify this one as a mimic? Looks like plane, becomes an orb, returns to plane.
It does mean that the ones in NJ might not be planes or drones at all. I don't know how I feel about that.

Did that [expletive] just turn from an orb into a drone?

The idea that UFOs shape shift from orbs to planes opens up the idea that ANY plane seen flying past might be a secret UFO -- heck ANYTHING, no matter how identifiable, might be a disguised UFO. It's insane.

To be fair, there is some push-back in the thread (including at least consideration of a reality-based explanation in the first of the three quotes above):

Lmfao people like you were exactly why society thinks UFO believers or kooks. The bright light was out of focus so it showed up as a blob. it did not become an orb in return to a plane…

Even with that, if you wanted an illustration of the idea that "It is easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled," this would be a good one. The video shows clearly what it is, even the poster of the video pretty much concedes what it is -- but it obviously CAN'T be THAT because "I want to believe!!

 

[JMartJr]

Also, THIS might be a motive to post something:

(Snipped from the bit john.phil posted in the second post of this thread.)

 

[Gaspa]

They see a plane.
They record the plane.
It looks exactly like a plane.
Behaves exactly like a plane.
Sounds exactly like a plane.
Then, according to the OP, she confirmed it to be a plane as it passed overhead.

So why did she even bother sharing the video in the first place?
These people have way too much time on their hands.

Completely agree, but, just to try and explain how I think her mind works...:
Looks like she thinks that, because the sound cut off, there is something more to it.
Add to that her belief that "everything is connected", and the sound cutting off has happened before with another video in "strange circumstances".
Makes zero sense, but that's the superstitious mind, for you.

 

[Maury Markowitz]

Came to post about this one and then saw this thread. As jarl notes, this is absolutely AAL357, it's the only plane in the area so there's no mystery.

The OP was quick to accept this explanation.

 

[Kyle Ferriter]

The idea that UFOs shape shift from orbs to planes opens up the idea that ANY plane seen flying past might be a secret UFO -- heck ANYTHING, no matter how identifiable, might be a disguised UFO. It's insane.

I have a couple really good videos of distant planes going from looking like small white dots, to larger white "orbs", to then "shapeshifting" into 3 lights, green/white/red and into the shape of an aircraft, and I know what flight it was and the type of aircraft. Maybe I'll crop one later and post it to reddit to see what people think.

 

[JMartJr]

I have a couple really good videos of distant planes going from looking like small white dots, to larger white "orbs", to then "shapeshifting" into 3 lights, green/white/red and into the shape of an aircraft, and I know what flight it was and the type of aircraft. Maybe I'll crop one later and post it to reddit to see what people think.

If you do, please post it here, too!