Things to be aware of: Nocturnal Sky Divers -- LEDs and Pyrotechnics

[JMartJr]

Greetings. Watching the Monday Night Football tonight, the pre-game show featured skydivers with LEDs in their chutes dropping into a darkened stadium. I suppose I must have known this was a thing, but tonight it struck me as "Oh great, one more thing to generate UFO reports!"

From a previous game, here is some video from the Denver stadium:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IU2E4aH9Dhg


While I'm here, might as well post some reference footage of skydivers with pyrotechnics, which I have already seen generate UFO reports:


Source: https://youtu.be/0esBkrtFl1s?list=PLn95Vk05FrXE7jRO77N9nrplE-OhvS5Si


Source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Utk3a6ubXq8


Source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YviGMpNzglE

 

[jarlrmai]

We've already seen and solved some cases of pyrotechnic skydivers reported as UFOs

eg

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/daytona-ufos-28-may.12458/

Often the key is finding the dive plane on ADSBI

 

[JMartJr]

We've already seen and solved some cases of pyrotechnic skydivers reported as UFOs

Yeah, I would have not done a post just for them. But since I was already doing one for the LED parachutes, I decided to stick the pyrotechnics in there as well.