I think we've had enough examples by now not to put much credence in the estimated values for an unfamiliar object's size or altitude, especially at night and in the absence of known objects with which to compare it.
The OP photo by @Charlie Wiser and the similar photo by @NorCal Dave appear to show lights mounted around a suspended ring, and also obscured by that ring.
If we look for an explanation that is not a prank, then an AEM loop suspended under a...
that isn't fully accurate: "A Response to Watters et al. (2026)", Villarroel et al. say the dataset "might include plate defects, scanning artefacts, and variable stars" and that "up to two thirds may be false positives". So even if the reported...
BTW, it didn't have to be ultra-lights. And I doubt they were. Just ordinary light aircraft. And they didn't have to be painted black.
Southbury Connecticut is only a few miles east on I-84 from the towns, like Brewster and Yorktown New York...
EDIT: I got beat by a few minutes...
Come now, folks. The case was solved at the time. One of the sources says...
https://www.thinkaboutitdocs.com/1985-close-encounter-on-interstate-84-connecticut/
The author of this articleloid (a bit of...
During the Hudson Valley 1983-84 sightings, single engine aircraft fitted with special illumination and flying in formation at night supposedly created a UFO hoax by accident.
The 1984 Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, also called "The Westchester...
In the lore, there are claims of thought-reading from a distance and bedroom abductions for the purpose of installing implants that would connect the host to the aliens themselves. There are also claims that aliens walk among us.
I'm relatively new here, so forgive me if this was posted already. I've looked, but I haven't found it. I thought it might be of interest to people here.
About a month ago Kirkpatrick gave a really interesting speech about how AARO was setup and...
Nice find! I listen to a little over 1/2 of today while futzing around in the shop.
Absolutely. He provides a good outline of what AARO could and could NOT do per its congressional mandate. What he says is just not what the UFO community wants...
I can't find any helicopter suspended circular light arrays, either. But the picture being taken by a pilot. I did wonder what sort of things a pilot might see that could be photographed if he wanted to "get in on the act" and do the "T saw it...
This links to a "Best UFO Pictures" site.
Interesting, if one goes to this link of "Best UFO Pictures" for given years one gets the photo in question from 1987, but also a similar photo from 1982-83 from the former East Germany...
I promise not to post this in every thread about these videos (though I almost could) -- but this is yet another UAP that does not do anything anomalous, it (or they) just flies smoothly by. As any non-anomalous flying thing would. I agree...
Initially this looks like a low-flying craft skimming over the water with a shadow. But I think, on zooming in, that it's actually just four birds and parallax.
Stabilized
Zoomed in:
You can practically see them flapping
The camera is...