It was about 2 a.m. on a Tuesday near Austin, and this orange orb just hovered over the treeline for 20 minutes before zipping off sideways faster than any plane or drone I've ever seen, has anyone else had a sighting that turned them from a skeptic into a believer?
I was grabbing coffee at a truck stop outside Flagstaff last Saturday when two airline pilots sat down next to me. One of them was telling the other about a formation of lights over the Superstition Mountains that didn't show up on his radar or any other aircraft's transponder. He said it lasted about 14 minutes and the lights moved in a pattern that didn't match any known military drills. The other pilot just nodded and said 'yeah, we don't talk about those nights.' Made me wonder how many people up there see stuff and just keep quiet about it. Anyone here ever overheard a pro talking about something they can't explain?
I used to just stare at strange stuff like that blinking orange orb over the lake and never pull out my phone because I thought people would laugh. Last week I finally grabbed a clear video of a silent triangle moving real slow, and even showed it to my neighbor without feeling dumb. What made you finally feel okay sharing what you saw?
I was out near Lake Michigan last August during sunset and saw this weird glowing orb. I got my phone out, recorded it, and then realized it was just a seagull with the sun reflecting off it. I still see people posting similar stuff claiming it's aliens and I just don't get the hype. Has anyone else debunked their own sighting like this?
I used to be one of those people who swore every odd thing in the sky had to be aliens. But last week I finally solved a mystery from 2021 that changed my mind completely. I was sitting on my dock at Lake Minnetonka around 11pm and saw this bright orange orb just hovering for like 20 minutes before zipping away. Spent hours on forums trying to match it to anything. Turned out it was a guy named Pete from three cabins down launching his homemade Chinese lanterns for his daughter's wedding rehearsal. He told me he launched like 15 of them that night and most just floated off but one got caught in a breeze pattern. The whole thing took me 3 years to solve just because I never thought to ask my neighbors. Has anyone else had a sighting that turned out to be something totally normal from a weird angle?
I was out back behind the restaurant on my smoke break around 1 AM, saw this bright orange light streak across the sky from north to south with a sparkly tail that faded fast. My coworker swears it was just a meteor but I'm telling you it slowed down and changed direction slightly before vanishing. Anyone else see that thing and which side are you on, meteor or something weirder?
I was parked at a rest stop near Battle Creek around 2 AM last Tuesday when I saw this orange orb just hovering way too low. I fumbled for my phone and it was at 2% battery, then it shut off the second I hit record. Has anyone else had a clear sighting ruined by bad timing or dead gear?
Some guy on here pointed out my video from last Tuesday looked exactly like a drone with a strobe light, and after I went back and looked at flight radar data for that time, I had to admit he was right. Has anyone else had their mind changed by someone being blunt about a sighting?
I was up at my buddy's cabin on Lake Mille Lacs last weekend around 11 PM and noticed these three bright orange lights hovering low over the water for like 5 minutes straight. They didn't move at all, no sound, then just blinked out one by one. Has anyone else seen stuff like this over lakes or am I just seeing things?
I literally watched a guy on the community Facebook page post a blurry video of a plane from last Tuesday that was clearly Delta flight 1482 at 35,000 feet and he swore it was a UFO, so how about we all download a free tracker app before jumping to conclusions lol
I posted a video of a weird glowing orb hovering over Lake Lanier around 2am back in July, and a guy who said he flew 747s for 30 years commented that my camera focus was hunting too much, making it look fake. He said real pilots look for steady light patterns and relative movement against stars, not just bright blobs. So I changed my recording setup to manual focus at infinity and started tracking objects against the tree line instead of just zooming in. Has anyone else gotten a technical critique that actually improved their sky watching?
Last month I saw a clip from a guy in Phoenix that showed three lights doing this weird zigzag pattern over 20 seconds. The footage was shaky and dark, but you could clearly see the lights stop and reverse direction instantly. I spent years thinking all those videos were just drones or camera artifacts. That one clip made me start actually watching these forums instead of just scrolling past.
He told me about a clear triangle he saw over his barn in 1987, no lights just BLOCKING the stars, and I realized I never really thought about how much quieter the sky used to be before all these drones and planes. Anyone else have a chat that made you rethink what you're actually looking at up there?
I've been trying to get a decent photo of weird lights for like 4 years now. Every time I saw something weird up there, my phone pics looked like blurry garbage. Last month I finally tried one of those cheap phone lens clamps that let you hold it steady against a car window or fence post. It made a huge difference, I could actually get a clear shot of this orange glowing orb that floated over my neighbor's barn for about 20 seconds. Anyone else got a simple gear trick that helped your sightings look less like a potato?
I spent $20 on that SkyEye UFO detector app back in March after reading glowing reviews, and after three months of running it every clear night, the only thing it ever did was alert me to a satellite and a high-altitude balloon. It never picked up anything remotely strange, and I felt like I threw my money into a hole. Has anyone actually had one of these apps work for real sightings, or are they all just junk?