Three steady lights hovering in the sky

Calter

Senior Member.
I found this "sighting" of mysterious lights, which I'm pretty confident they are just spotlights (given the fact that they look and move like spotlights)

https://enigmalabs.io/sighting/305767

Driving home from vets office around 9-9:30 pm with mom and sister. Sister spots these lights while I was driving and says they have been following us. Probably 10 mins later I find a spot to pull into. No sound on video but there was no sound from these lights and no wind or weather other than overcast clouds. All 3 of us thought it was some sort of UFO, my mom seemed uncomfortable. The lights stayed within a central area or circumference, and no beams of light were visible coming from the ground. After 20 or more minutes the lights got more and more dim. We finally drove away because we needed to get home.




But I am curious in how people here would tackle this sighting, if the objective were to find the source of the lights and the location it was filmed from. Ideally, giving an explanation on the decisions/process taken.

Personally, I was thinking of starting from veterinary offices around Denver and trying to look for the road, but that sounds fairly inefficient, so I'm interested in learning other methods of tackling potential sightings.

Sidenote: I'm not sure if this thread should be in Skydentify or Practical debunking, but I put it in Skydentify since we would be identifying something.
 
First off, I would be doing a Google search for any light shows on the night of December 19, 2024 in the Denver area, or any mentions of "lights in the Denver sky" on social media platforms. Denver is a pretty big place and the description of the video doesn't really help much, but any other mentions might help narrow down the location a little.

If that doesn't lead you anywhere, ideally you want to find landmarks in the video that will help you nail down the location. There's not much to work with in this video other than the high voltage overhead power transmission line tower. If I really wanted to track down the location this was recorded from I might start by looking at a map of power transmission lines across Denver, and then use Google Earth/Maps/Street View to follow the lines looking for towers of similar size and structure until I was able to find a location that matches the other features present in the video.

That's a fair bit of effort though, so I would have to be really keen to solve the problem.

In this case I wouldn't even bother. I see light patterns like this in the sky to the north and south of where I live all the time, the source of which is just a bunch of spotlights that social clubs in those areas use to attract attention their place of business. I don't expect these to be any different.
 
Boy, so little useful info is given, it's almost as if someone wants it to be difficult to check out:

Driving on what street?

Lights were in which direction?

Was Sis correct? Were the lights following your car? Did they stop following when you finally pulled over?

Do bursts of light in different directions usually make you think that it's "some sort of UFO"?

When Mom "seems uncomfortable," is it often because of aliens?

Have you submitted other similar views to "Enigma," kind of a UAP clearinghouse?


I hadn't heard of this Enigma group before, and yes, they do seem a bit sketchy.

But they at least give lip service to a "scientific" approach, and they actually have an interesting

page of "10 Objects Commonly Mistaken for UAP" (Items that will be very familiar to MBers...)

https://enigmalabs.io/blog/10-objects-commonly-mistaken-for-uap
 
Something noticeable about the video, is that the lights appear to be raised considerably above the level where the video is recorded, suggesting the lights may be located on a large hill in the Denver NC area.

Looking at Google Earth (GE), there appears to be just two major high points, which are located on either side of the Interstate 16. The largest (the the West of I16). The larger (by some margin) of the two, has no name, but has a single road (Tower Road) running up it. There are various cell phone and probably TV masts scattered along the road approaching the peak, which is at 35°33'58.48"N 81° 5'25.21"W.

In the image below from GE, the hill is the area in the red circle. The blue circle is where I'm suggesting that the video may have been taken from.
Locations.jpg


Looking at the video, the location the video is taken at might be where construction of some kind is being done, judging by some of the features visible. These being what looks like a partially constructed sidewalk on the left (as well as possibly newly planted trees/bushes), and portaloos on the right, as well as the cleared dirt visible to the right of the road. On the assumption that the video location may have been in an area of some construction, I went looking for some and found a large area of it to the east of the hill.

The construction is a housing development called Shannon Woods lennar.com/new-homes/north-carolina/charlotte/maiden/shannon-woods), which according to the GE imagery was in the early stages of development in June 2023. This was divided into three sections, with paved roads and construction begun in one part, another, cleared of trees with no roads yet in the GE image (but with roads marked on it in GE) and another marked for roads in GE, but no tree clearance as of June 2023. A map on the developer's website shows that a large part of the development is not yet available for sale, so most likely, there would be parts of the location that would have the partially constructed appearance (road and sidewalk, but no houses) of the area seen in the video.

Possibly the three red reflective "dead end" markers could be blocking off access to an area of the development not yet being worked on, at the time the video was taken. I don't have a specific road to suggest as the specific location, but there are a few in the area of the development, not yet started on in 2023, that could give the appropriate view of the Tower Road hill.

Below are two images. The first being from the video in the OP, the second is a view from Google Streetview (35°33'49.84"N 81° 3'52.22"W), showing the West entrance to the Shannon Woods development, from a road also named I16 but running a little way to the east of the interstate.
Video Road Features.jpg


Shannon Woods Entrance.jpg


The two roads have a number of similar feature, these being from the road outwards, what looks a strip of roadside drainage, then the raised kerb stone. outside of that a strip of dirt (grass grown on this in Shannon Woods image), then beyond that the sidewalk. Finally beyond the sidewalk are saplings.

One issue with this theory, is that the hill has no major clearing of trees on it, just a narrow road to the top, with a few small buildings alongside it at intervals and a larger building at the peak (possibly for a TV tower). So for this to be the location for the lights, the lights would need to have been arranged along the side of the road, rather than in something like a playing fields, parking lot or stadium. However the hill is a pretty striking feature of the area, so possibly a light show was located there, due to the height of its peak above the surrounding area.
 
I hadn't heard of this Enigma group before, and yes, they do seem a bit sketchy.

But they at least give lip service to a "scientific" approach, and they actually have an interesting

page of "10 Objects Commonly Mistaken for UAP" (Items that will be very familiar to MBers...)

https://enigmalabs.io/blog/10-objects-commonly-mistaken-for-uap
I hadn't heard of them before either, and that it is a useful little reference to show people. Props for even digging that up because when I go to the Blog link, I can't even find that "10 Objects" page.

As for the rest of the site... :rolleyes:
So many painfully dumb entries that I had to back away. Just like the one linked in the OP, the descriptions provided typically have nothing in common with what is captured on camera. And when searching for locations familiar to me, the inaccuracies and inconsistencies were staggering.

But to keep this on topic, this is probably the last way I would describe the obvious search lights as seen in the OP. What is wrong with people?
Three lights over Denver NC.png


The only accurate descriptor in that meager 5-word title would be the word "lights."
There aren't "three."
They most certainly aren't "steady."
They are not, by any definition, "hovering."
And there's nothing "slow" about any of it. If anything, the movement is quite rapid.

I would argue that one would have to exert a measurable effort to come up with a headline less accurate.
God help us. If 2024 is any indication, 2025 is going to be colossally stupid.
 
But to keep this on topic, this is probably the last way I would describe the obvious search lights as seen in the OP. What is wrong with people?
Three lights over Denver NC.png


The only accurate descriptor in that meager 5-word title would be the word "lights."
There aren't "three."
They most certainly aren't "steady."
They are not, by any definition, "hovering."
And there's nothing "slow" about any of it. If anything, the movement is quite rapid.

Yeah I was a bit puzzled by that as well, and the first time I watched the video I actually thought they were talking about the reflections from the three road signs.
 
so little useful info is given, it's almost as if someone wants it to be difficult to check out
I doubt that. The truth is, few people these days express any desire for actual information about what they see and hear. I joined Facebook a year ago, and have been astonished by images posted without context, and responses that do not express curiosity about such. I cannot even imagine the thought processes behind this.
 
Last edited:
This is a family Christmas light show in Denver, NC ("Coleman Lights") that is apparently a big enough deal that it appears on Google earth. No, I think what the OP saw was search lights, not this, but here it is anyway. Video is one of several from the 2023 show. Of course it's possible that they added searchlights for 2024.


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYiZc91DSn4&list=PLdhIP1GoFV5MSyMlZN-IpIwzoc0OXhWNs&index=1

I also came across that when searching for Denver NC and "light show". One of the issues I've got with the lights being in the location I suggested, on the edge of Denver, is that I can't find a single mention of them anywhere. For them to be where I've suggested would have taken quite a bit of work, so unlikely to have been just a quickly pulled prank, but instead something that would likely have been publicised locally.

Unfortunately all we have to identify the location as Denver NC, is the map image on the Enigmalabs website. The short report of what was seen, has nothing to link it to the location in the map image (e.g. a road name), so doesn't provide complete confidence in Denver being the actual location the lights were seen. For all we know, the person reporting this could have seen the lights when some distance away, but didn't know the exact location, but lives in Denver (they said they were driving home), so gave that as the location in the report on Enigmalabs. It could be that the location reported is correct, but find no mention of a light show (for something that looks exactly like one) in the area reported as the location for them, is puzzling.

I'm hoping that the facebook group for Denver NC might have something about this (e.g. an announcement of a light show), but it's a private group, so looking at it isn't simple. They use a few local questions to try to weed out people who aren't locals, but they seem to be answerable with the help of a web search and Streetview. I've applied to join the group and hopefully (if my answers were correct) I should be able to check there fairly soon.
 
I doubt that. The truth is, few people these days express any desire for actual information about what they see and hear. I joined Facebook a year ago, and have been astonished by images posted without context, and responses that do not express curiosity about such. I cannot even imagine the thought processes behind this.
Absolutely. I've been following a "drone sightings" group on Facebook and the majority of the photos don't specify time and location or anything useful like that. I think a lot of people prefer the mystery and don't want to risk having the bubble burst with a mundane identification.
 
Absolutely. I've been following a "drone sightings" group on Facebook and the majority of the photos don't specify time and location or anything useful like that. I think a lot of people prefer the mystery and don't want to risk having the bubble burst with a mundane identification.
I have mentioned it many times before. UFO/UAP and everything connected to it, is just seen as plain old entertainment by the majority of the people.
 
I found this "sighting" of mysterious lights, which I'm pretty confident they are just spotlights (given the fact that they look and move like spotlights)

https://enigmalabs.io/sighting/305767



View attachment 75315


But I am curious in how people here would tackle this sighting, if the objective were to find the source of the lights and the location it was filmed from. Ideally, giving an explanation on the decisions/process taken.

Personally, I was thinking of starting from veterinary offices around Denver and trying to look for the road, but that sounds fairly inefficient, so I'm interested in learning other methods of tackling potential sightings.

Sidenote: I'm not sure if this thread should be in Skydentify or Practical debunking, but I put it in Skydentify since we would be identifying something.

It would be nice if the pertinent information was in the OP. This is in Denver NC? And was back in 2023? It seems others have gotten this from viewing the report.

The lights look very similar to the Christmas light show in Wisconsin from this thread:

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/se...rs-family-christmas-lights.12811/#post-285426

Video from Mick's investigation:


 
Back
Top