Reddit - Strange glowing orb. No sound, emitting a bright glow. NOT a spotlight. NOT a helicopter.

[jarlrmai]

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1ud4vfe/strange_glowing_orb_no_sound_emitting_a_bright/


This was posted to Reddit

Geo-located to here https://maps.app.goo.gl/9rkmJ9u1ov2WPMhX9 as per OPs maps

Original video was requested and uploaded to me time metadata on the video seems to match claimed date and time, location data is missing, but the geo-location is accurate

It looks like a plane with landers on and there are 2 that are candidates for direction but they don't match exactly based on the video time, however 1 matches somewhat for 25 minutes earlier except maybe its a bit too high.

But it shows that planes would approach the runway in that sort of area regularly.

Here is a sitrec for that match that you can use as a starting point

https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=11433/reddit Elyria/20260623_194743.js

I have the orginal video but it is too large to attach here is a dropbox

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3gnm...rphy.mp4?rlkey=6n0r57s5wcz7nv0doye3rbquc&dl=0

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[Z.W. Wolf]

I agree that it looks like a distant landing light on a fixed wing aircraft.

It seems to reverse course several times, but that seems to be a parallax illusion, because the guy taking the video walks from side to side. The tree branches are close, the aircraft is distant. If the camera shifts slightly, you get this parallax illusion. The illusory changes in course might make one think of a helicopter.

But because of the distance, there would be no noise. Thus the preemptive objection that it's not a helicopter. Helicopters are noisy, this was silent.

We can't rule out the possibility that it might be a helicopter, and that at least some of the course changes are real, but more distant than the witness assumed. I doubt it, because the apparent brightness of the light doesn't change much. That indicates a powerful and directional light source that is steadily pointed at the witness. Like a landing light on an approaching airplane.

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

Re-watch. The light is moving from our right to our left, then there is one real course change. It begins to move from our left to our right. There's too much movement relative to the basketball hoop to be explained by a parallax illusion due to the camera movement.

This is consistent with a fixed wing aircraft making a fairly slow left turn. The witness assumes all motion is in 2 dimensions (lateral movements), but it is a 3-D world.