Not sure how you say: "However it LOOKS like a human aircraft of some sort."
Lights in the sky must be either natural or artificial.
Something in the air or near Earth with clearly visible, regularly strobing red and white lights is unlikely to be natural.
Artificial lights in the sky come from many sources. All known artificial lights in the sky are of human origin.
There are many examples of lights of human (and natural) origin being interpreted by some as exotic craft.
But there is no reliable, testable evidence for extraterrestrial life
at all at present, much less that extraterrestrial intelligences/ their artefacts are visiting Earth.
The vast majority of crewed aircraft carry strobing lights. There are many thousands of such aircraft in regular use.
If something in the air is following a reasonably steady course and is visible because of regularly strobing red and white lights, it seems a reasonable default to assume it is a conventional aircraft carrying the lights mandated by regulations around the world.
It is absolutely commonplace to see aircraft only by their lights, or in daylight at such distances that their shape cannot be reliably resolved.
A flying craft with strobing lights that cannot be definitely identified by the observer at that time is nevertheless probably an aircraft of human origin.
It
might be an extraterrestrial craft, if extraterrestrials exist, and they are visiting Earth, and their craft have visible flying and lighting characteristics very similar to human aircraft, and they visit your locale, but why assume those premises?
If its an aircraft, why no other lights (red and green) other than a white light and a red blinking light...
If you are viewing the port (left) side of an aircraft, the green position light (also called a navigation light) might not be visible.
Aircraft with mandated lighting only have one green light, the position light on the tip of the starboard (right) wing.
There is a corresponding red position light on the port wing. But there are other highly visible red lights on most aircraft.
Light aircraft often carry a single red anti-collision beacon on the top of the fuselage or tail.
Larger passenger aircraft usually carry bright red anti-collision beacons on the top and underside of the fuselage.
See also Pilot Institute website, "Airplane Lights: What Each Light Does (Red/Green, Strobe, Beacon)", updated 25 Feb 2026
https://pilotinstitute.com/airplane-lights/). AFAIK there isn't a requirement to have an anti-collision beacon on the underside of light f/w aircraft,
the second set of line drawings in article "Compulsory Aircraft Lights", Redback Aviation
https://www.redbackaviation.com/compulsory-aircraft-lights/#google_vignette implies this is also the case with small helicopters.
Note that in the side elevations of the aircraft in the pics above, the green starboard position light is not visible.
As far as I understand, the strobing anti-collision lights are brighter than the position lights.
(The tables below are not quite comparing like-with-like; but again
AFAIK anti-collision lights are generally much brighter than position lights- could be wrong!)
From Code of Federal Regulations website, Federal Aviation Administration,
(L) § 25.1391
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-...ect-group-ECFR0cb7970b9d1fd5f/section-25.1391
(R) § 25.1401
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-...ect-group-ECFR0cb7970b9d1fd5f/section-25.1401
At a sufficient distance the strobing red and white anti-collision lights might be more visible than the green and red position lights.
From some perspectives, e.g. if the aircraft is passing from right to left in front of the observer, the green position light might not be visible even at close range.
...a white light and a red blinking light at 120 blinks/min? FAA requires an anti collision red light blink rate to be between 40 and 100 blinks / min.
More than one strobing light of the same color (red, white) may be visible. Perhaps surprisingly they do not have to be closely synchronized.
External Quote:
In overlaps, flash frequencies may exceed 100, but not 180 cycles per minute.
§ 25.1401 Anticollision light system, Code of Federal Regulations website, Federal Aviation Administration, link as above.
However the aim is to have an apparent frequency of no more than 100 cycles per minute as viewed from a distance at most angles. It might be worth reviewing the footage in view of Mick West's estimate of 90 Hz in
post #53, but a frequency above 100 Hz does not rule out normal aircraft.
max video zoom on the iphone 16 pro max results in a red blinking light with a diameter of at least ~ 50 pixels (for the inner yellow core of the red light - not the full blooming of the red light) - so its pretty close in my book- possibly less than 0.5 miles.
I know very little about videoing/ photography! But nonoptimal focus and/ or atmospheric conditions can cause a lightsource to appear larger than it would otherwise be, accompanied by a drop in viewed intensity, e.g. some out of focus photos of Venus.
