Triangle UFO Photographed Over South Carolina

I didn't see this posted, figured I'd share with the community.

A Greenville County, SC, witness report that includes two photos of a hovering triangle UFO was closed as an Unknown, the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) announced February 11, 2014, in Case 51888

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reply to post by phrankie79


lol. I see these all the time on the way to work off exit 60 over the gsp airport off exit 57 in greenville. They're called planes.

reply to post by smithjustinb


They don't look like any navigational lights I've ever seen.

phrankie79
reply to post by smithjustinb

 

They don't look like any navigational lights I've ever seen.

A lot of them look exactly like the one in the picture.

reply to post by phrankie79


I agree the configuration doesn't look right for a conventional aircraft. Any more info about exactly where this was? Presumably the red light visible is on top of a mast or something similar?

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Rob48
reply to post by phrankie79

 

I agree the configuration doesn't look right for a conventional aircraft. Any more info about exactly where this was? Presumably the red light visible is on top of a mast or something similar?

Im telling you. I drive past the airport in greenville every work day in the early, dark hours of the morning. I see the EXACT same lights that are in the picture. DEFINITELY an airplane.

smithjustinb

Rob48
reply to post by phrankie79

 

I agree the configuration doesn't look right for a conventional aircraft. Any more info about exactly where this was? Presumably the red light visible is on top of a mast or something similar?

Im telling you. I drive past the airport in greenville every work day in the early, dark hours of the morning. I see the EXACT same lights that are in the picture. DEFINITELY an airplane.

I have to agree with you on this one. I live close to IAH. I see these every night. Airplane.

Have to agree with some other replies it's a plane. I see aircraft fly over of an even from London Stanstead airport. Especially fedex delivery flights. As for the formation of lights may look like a triangle because with have white lights on wing tips but also some aircraft have lights where the wing joins the fuselage

I can't get any frame of reference from those photos. Why is all the stuff in the foreground blurred while the "distant" triangle is crystal clear? And why is image 1 the same as image 2?

I can't really say that the pattern of white dots looks like it is in the distance, the sky, or even not an image artifact.

Is the photo taken behind some sort of window?

From inside a car?


these look like water drops on window,


The red objects seem like reflection of something inside.

Mufon report: mufoncms.com...

riding down hwy 29 out of greenville,looked up out of winsheild of car and saw this triangle like object floating in the air.took picture while driving ,busy hwy with no place to pull over.there is a air force testing and repair in greenville called donaldson center.figure this is where it came from.

Google maps coordinates on a site matching descriptions on report 34.795695 , -82.384557
Highway 29, just north of donaldson center, and south of Greenville Downtown airport.

Out of a moving car, airplanes can definitely look like they are standing still.

draknoir2
I can't get any frame of reference from those photos. Why is all the stuff in the foreground blurred while the "distant" triangle is crystal clear? And why is image 1 the same as image 2?

I can't really say that the pattern of white dots looks like it is in the distance, the sky, or even not an image artifact.

Frame of reference here is the exif data with gps info date time etc

Still on the pictures.

Exposure Time (1 / Shutter Speed) [0x829A] = 0/1 second ===> 1/Infinity second ===> 0 second
EXIF Version [0x9000] = 0220
Original Date/Time [0x9003] = 2013:10:27 19:22:30
Components Configuration [0x9101] = 0x01,0x02,0x03,0x00 / YCbCr
Distance to Subject [0x9206] = 0/1 m
Light Source / White Balance [0x9208] = unknown (0)
Flash [0x9209] = No flash function
Colour Space [0xA001] = sRGB (1)
Image Width [0xA002] = 2560 pixels
Image Height [0xA003] = 1920 pixels
Device Setting Description [0xA40B] = 0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00

EXIF GPS IFD

GPS Version ID [0x00] = 0x32,0x32,0x30,0x30
GPS Latitude Reference [0x01] = north latitude (N)
GPS Latitude [0x02] = 34/1,57123/1000,0/1 [degrees, minutes, seconds] ===> 34° 57.123′ == 34.95205°
GPS Longitude Reference [0x03] = west longitude (W)
GPS Longitude [0x04] = 82/1,10999/1000,0/1 [degrees, minutes, seconds] ===> 82° 10.999′ == 82.183317°
Links to online mapping websites:
Google™ Maps
Yahoo!® Maps
Bing® Maps
Mapquest®
Open KML data with Google™ Earth
Save KML data to file
Save KML data to file and open with Google™ Earth
GPS Altitude Reference [0x05] = 0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00
GPS Altitude [0x06] = 181/1 m ===> 181 m
GPS Speed Reference [0x0C] = kilometers per hour
GPS Speed [0x0D] = 0/1 ===> 0

wmd_2008

draknoir2
I can't get any frame of reference from those photos. Why is all the stuff in the foreground blurred while the "distant" triangle is crystal clear? And why is image 1 the same as image 2?

I can't really say that the pattern of white dots looks like it is in the distance, the sky, or even not an image artifact.

Frame of reference here is the exif data with gps info date time etc

Still on the pictures.

Exposure Time (1 / Shutter Speed) [0x829A] = 0/1 second ===> 1/Infinity second ===> 0 second
EXIF Version [0x9000] = 0220
Original Date/Time [0x9003] = 2013:10:27 19:22:30
Components Configuration [0x9101] = 0x01,0x02,0x03,0x00 / YCbCr
Distance to Subject [0x9206] = 0/1 m
Light Source / White Balance [0x9208] = unknown (0)
Flash [0x9209] = No flash function
Colour Space [0xA001] = sRGB (1)
Image Width [0xA002] = 2560 pixels
Image Height [0xA003] = 1920 pixels
Device Setting Description [0xA40B] = 0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00

EXIF GPS IFD

GPS Version ID [0x00] = 0x32,0x32,0x30,0x30
GPS Latitude Reference [0x01] = north latitude (N)
GPS Latitude [0x02] = 34/1,57123/1000,0/1 [degrees, minutes, seconds] ===> 34° 57.123′ == 34.95205°
GPS Longitude Reference [0x03] = west longitude (W)
GPS Longitude [0x04] = 82/1,10999/1000,0/1 [degrees, minutes, seconds] ===> 82° 10.999′ == 82.183317°
Links to online mapping websites:
Google™ Maps
Yahoo!® Maps
Bing® Maps
Mapquest®
Open KML data with Google™ Earth
Save KML data to file
Save KML data to file and open with Google™ Earth
GPS Altitude Reference [0x05] = 0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00
GPS Altitude [0x06] = 181/1 m ===> 181 m
GPS Speed Reference [0x0C] = kilometers per hour
GPS Speed [0x0D] = 0/1 ===> 0

Just pretend for a moment that I am not a professional digital photographer and explain how it answers my questions, in layman's terms.

reply to post by wmd_2008


Exposure time 1/infinity? Something's not quite right with that EXIF data. Looks like a longish exposure, anyway, as you can see movement blur on the (presumably) stationary lights as well as the aircraft, indicating the camera is moving too.

Nice that the co-ordinates are on there, though:



The point where the photo was taken lines up pretty nicely with the runway at GSP...

phrankie79
reply to post by smithjustinb

 

They don't look like any navigational lights I've ever seen.

Different planes have different configurations.

Here is one plane with a slightly similar lighting configuration as the on in the OP:


Here is another plane with another similar (but slightly different) configuration as the one in the OP and the one I posted above:


That second image is a screenshot I took of the below video, which shows several different planes landing. Some of the plane have lighting configurations similar to the one in the OP. The screenshot above is from the 1:21 mark in the video. Another plane with a similar lighting configuration can be seen at about 3:15

The lights are not positioned correctly for this to be something like an air-liner. Plus, there is no tail light. The shape definitely looks triangular, given that the positions of the lights would not fit any airplane that I could think of. It it were an airplane, it would have to be a small one. An airliner will have not only a tail light, but most have a light at the top of the tail that illuminates the logo. I have never heard of pilots not turning these lights on, but I suppose it is possible.

There are also supposed to be red and green navigation lights, although these may not be visible if they are placed on the front of the wings. Overall I will not discount that this is a small plane, but it just looks a bit funny to me.

Mufon classifies it as a 'Hovering triangle' there is no triangle visible, only points of light in positions that form a triangle, so Mufon must be assuming that the points of light are just that...lights, and that they must be attached to something of a triangular shape. They may as well just be talking about an aircraft. That the picture appears taken through glass should be taken as suspect as regards the image, it could easily be a multi image through double-glazing and/or reflections.

I don't care how good Mufon might be, the last thing they should be saying is, 'an unknown'

JiggyPotamus
The lights are not positioned correctly for this to be something like an air-liner. Plus, there is no tail light. The shape definitely looks triangular, given that the positions of the lights would not fit any airplane that I could think of. It it were an airplane, it would have to be a small one. An airliner will have not only a tail light, but most have a light at the top of the tail that illuminates the logo. I have never heard of pilots not turning these lights on, but I suppose it is possible.

There are also supposed to be red and green navigation lights, although these may not be visible if they are placed on the front of the wings. Overall I will not discount that this is a small plane, but it just looks a bit funny to me.

You can't always see the tail light or the red and green nav lights, as I showed in the first image in my post above (which I'll post again here):

Also, not all aircraft have a light on the vertical tail.

In addition, if you watch the video I posted, there are other occasions that the light on the tail and/or the red and green navigation lights are not always visible, and some planes that do not have a steady "position light" on the top of the tail at all.

draknoir2

Just pretend for a moment that I am not a professional digital photographer and explain how it answers my questions, in layman's terms.

edit on 6-3-2014 by draknoir2 because: (no reason given)

I posted that so everyone could see the location the picture was taken with reference to local airports also if the date is set correctly on the phone the pictures were taken 27th Oct 2013 seems to take a while to be reported.