Strange lights in the sky reported by pilots around eastern Colorado

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Pilots on different routes that crossed the state Thursday night reported seeing strange lights in the sky above eastern Colorado, audio recordings of air traffic communications show.

One pilot of a Southwest flight traveling from Phoenix to Minneapolis told air traffic controllers around 11 p.m., he saw bright lights appear, move from left to right and disappear in the sky outside the plane.

The pilot of a United plane headed from New York to Las Vegas confirmed the sighting to controllers at the Denver Air Route Traffic Control Center, which manages flights in a region that includes eastern Colorado, western Kansas and southern Nebraska.

The Southwest pilot told controllers he saw the lights appear and disappear in the sky near the Big Dipper constellation. In another radio dispatch, which CPR News was alerted to by Daryl Orr, a storm-chaser who lives in Cheyenne, Wyo., the pilot told controllers the lights were white with a greenish tint.

“Now there’s two or three different lights, but they all disappear after about 15 seconds.”

Vey interesting story with the sightings corroborated by a number of pilots (5 reports made in total) and an air traffic controller sending out a radio alert to all pilots in the area later on that evening.

Did anyone notice anything strange if they've been nearby?


twitter.com...

Numerous pilots are reporting "strange aircraft and lights " that disappear then reappear move left and right near the Colorado Nebraska Kansas borders. Denver Center is taking the reports to pass on. The words UFO were also used. I have recorded the audio between Denver and a few pilots. Frequency 127.650vhf

Nvm, all good.

originally posted by: Encia22
Nvm, all good.

You live in the area?

a reply to: Muldar

No, a million miles away.

a reply to: Muldar

"...the lights were white, with a greenish tint".


TEB (borane) Fuel?


Once used on the SR-71....but that airframe is retired.


Is there "something else" flying around that might be using the same stuff?

originally posted by: Encia22
a reply to: Muldar

No, a million miles away.

All aliens use that as a first excuse.

originally posted by: Mantiss2021
a reply to: Muldar

"...the lights were white, with a greenish tint".


TEB (borane) Fuel?


Once used on the SR-71....but that airframe is retired.


Is there "something else" flying around that might be using the same stuff?

I am not 100% sure if it's just lights or aircrafts having lights but it looks it's aircrafts displaying white and greenish lights.

originally posted by: nerbot

originally posted by: Encia22
a reply to: Muldar

No, a million miles away.

All aliens use that as a first excuse.

Very true

a reply to: Muldar

I can only point out that if a pilot is saying lights they aren't being vague.
If what they saw even resembled lightning they would say lighning because
lighning poses a threat to aircraft.

originally posted by: Saloon
a reply to: Muldar

I can only point out that if a pilot is saying lights they aren't being vague.
If what they saw even resembled lightning they would say lighning because
lighning poses a threat to aircraft.

It's very likely to be aircraft displaying lights. This is what I understood from the testimonies.

I think a meteor can leave a prolonged strik in the night sky. I have seen those flashing longer than one would expect from a meteor...but then, angle of entry is a factor to consider and a composition of a meteor.

a reply to: Muldar

The Southwest pilot told controllers he saw the lights appear and disappear in the sky near the Big Dipper constellation.

That caught my attention from other stories that I've read...


From October 2022...

Other airlines radioed in to Van Voorhis to ask him if he was seeing the same objects he was.

“It had to be in a very, very high orbit, or actually even out in space quite a ways away from anything that a satellite would be, because every time we were seeing it, it was in the lower right-hand corner of the Big Dipper, no matter where we were in the world,” he told the outlet.

nypost.com...


A different report on the same incident of events that took place between August - September 2022...

Last October, the Today show covered a story where a former F-18 Marine Corps fighter pilot, Mark Hulsey, witnessed on Aug 18 strange UFO sightings in the skies over the U.S. Some of these sightings were above Missouri. Hulsey spoke with The Today show about his experiences. On The Today show, Hulsey said he saw a shooting star, while flying, but then it joined the other lights that were moving around below the big dipper.

fox2now.com...

originally posted by: DaydreamerV
I think a meteor can leave a prolonged strik in the night sky. I have seen those flashing longer than one would expect from a meteor...but then, angle of entry is a factor to consider and a composition of a meteor.

But it wasn't a meteor.
At least from what the witnesses have said so far.

Although this video is only showing one moving light, watch how it moves from one star to the other along the Big Dipper. This was recorded from the ground in August 2022. It might be related to the other sightings the pilots saw between August - September of last year that I posted above...

a reply to: Muldar

Possible nuts an bolts foo fighters, that are shrouded in their high-power plasma white color phase...perhaps?

originally posted by: Deetermined
Although this video is only showing one moving light, watch how it moves from one star to the other along the Big Dipper. This was recorded from the ground in August 2022. It might be related to the other sightings the pilots saw between August - September of last year that I posted above...

A group of my friends and family saw this probably late July/early August this year while in the middle of nowhere Wisconsin. Same location of the sky by the big dipper. Everyone thought it was a satellite but I knew better because it was changing directions.

I have seen similar 'star' as in the video above. Slowly passing changing direction.
Now that surely is no meteor.

originally posted by: DaydreamerV
I have seen similar 'star' as in the video above. Slowly passing changing direction.
Now that surely is no meteor.

Where about? if you don't mind

a reply to: Muldar

Honest question here... What exactly constitutes "strange"? There are all kinds of lights in the sky, more or less constantly.
Do pilots have a check-list or training that eliminates "common" lights as being considered strange, and what would constitute a light in the sky being "strange"?

originally posted by: Kreeate
a reply to: Muldar

Honest question here... What exactly constitutes "strange"? There are all kinds of lights in the sky, more or less constantly.
Do pilots have a check-list or training that eliminates "common" lights as being considered strange?

Something they can't recognise or something which behaves in a manner very different to what they know.