Triangular lights in the sky.
A Juggalo (Clown Posse fan) friend of mine told me a few weeks ago that she had seen 3 lights in the night sky moving in a strange triangular formation. Although many other people on the road had also stopped their cars and gotten out to look at the 3 bright white lights, she took a picture of them for me (and her) and sent them to me. When I expand the positions I see them. Sure enough, 3 bright, white, lights in an Equilateral triangle formation. She advised they were pretty bright and moved together in formation before finally just going way up and disappearing. I found no online reports about that day's sightings. Therefore I filed it away as a Hmmm incident.Yesterday morning she advised of a second incident the night before (Tuesday). Again 3 lights in a triangle formation darting here, darting there, going up, then down, then darting away again. She doesn't believe they were more than 5 miles distant. What was different this time is that the lights changed color, Red, blue, green, yellow and white. Seemingly at random. Sje could hear a faw away hum. Then they went way up high and the lights went out and a few seconds later the noise stopped too. Again she took a photo and sent it to me. Yes 3 noticiably bright lights in triandle formation. A blue, a red and a white. I went online and scrolled backwards in the FlightAware air traffic radar for the time period she described. Nothing found. To me that is interesting. Visible by camera and the naked eye, but not by radar?
A more extensive online search pulls up a similar report from a bunch of US Marines on Maneuvers, about 50 of them who also reported, in 2021, seeing a triangle of lights in the sky. However unlike my friend they had aerial flare capability she doesn't. So when it was overhead they provided some local overhead illumination to light it up. They reported seeing a black Delta shaped aircraft that could hover and fly in any direction without turning that was at least the size of a football field. Seconds after being illuminated it slew sideways and then straight up, it went once around the sky, horizon to horizon, very quickly and then simply disappeared. Several of the Marines made posts about the incident, but it is not generally believed the incident was included in the list of known UAP incidents.
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Regarding for size and perspective, as Fr. Ted said, "small and near vs big and far away"
On my own inquiries since I knew the date, time, location and direction the first incident photos were taken from, and had photos giving an indication of their possible brightness magnitude II compared them to the star chart available on the Stellarium program and also to the satellite orbit tracker found at n2yo.com and found no corresponding matches. I was of course already aware that if the lights had indeed moved as described I probably wouldn't find one as stars and orbiting satellites don't ordinarily move backwards or sideways in the night sky. Still, I did the exercise and as expected, negative results.
Since I knew which location my friend had been coming from in the first incident, a local one, I also had an idea of some other people that may have also been out at that time. Contacting 3 of them I learned that 2 had not been on the road at that time, but the third person had, and he had also seen the lights and stopped their car and got out and tried to see them better before the show ended before he remembered his phone had a camera.
Sadly my friend does not own any FLIR (optical thermal detector) devices. I would be personally curious to see if they emitted any heat as they moved about the sky. I have a suspicion as to their origin and if they lack both radar and heat presence then I beielve she (and the others) may have seen a long range fata morgana. Although once confined to the Arctic regions, there have been reports of them being observed and filmed in recent years in lower latitudes. The Optica Publishing Group has a peer reviewed paper discussing what are called "long-range superior mirages."
If I may quote from the paper's abstract, "The first )type) is the basic three-image mirage in which one inverted and one erect image float above the object." ... " For each (type), the most suitable atmospheric model contains several distinct atmospheres, and the first one requires sloped atmospheric layers as well."
This would totally explain both sightings. It also explains why the images don't show up on aircraft radar inspire of what seemed to be an astounding speed from an one the ground perspective. Simply put there is nothing overhead for the radar to reflect off. I very strongly suspect anyone attempting to detect them with a FLIR would also see nothing with it as the source of the image would not be where the FLIR is pointed.
If I myself ever see this phenomena just at a time and place where one of my FLIR scopes is right next to me (statistically unlikely) I will attempt to find them in that FLIR. I would be shocked if I could. That would also disprove my suspicion.
Where are the mirages coming from? Who knows? A different direction o view and angle of view each time. Some light somewhere 3 to 100 miles away. Did the bulb move, or did the atmosphere shift as the winds blew? Again, who knows?
I see you as one of the more intelligent characters on here, did you report this (potential) sighting to NASA? Or whomever you report these things to?
I see you as one of the more intelligent characters on here, did you report this (potential) sighting to NASA? Or whomever you report these things to?