I’m a pilot – I saw two UFOs hovering near each other at 35,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean
An airline pilot claims he saw two UFOs hovering close together, 35,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean.
The pilot of the A320 Frontier filmed the flying objects from the cockpit of the plane and shared a video of it on Reddit on Monday.
He claimed that the UFOs moved at “incredible speeds” and hovered “instantaneously” in the sky on August 19.
In a separate post, the pilot, who goes by the username thtflyingguy, revealed that he was flying close to Grand Bahamas International Airport in Freeport when he spotted the suspicious objects.
“We see satellites all the time, but the way they move is not the same as satellites,” he said.
An airline pilot claims he saw two UFOs hovering near each other (pictured) 35,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean on August 19
Flight tracking data showed that flight FFT3572 had taken off from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and was over the ocean at the same altitude as the pilot had reported.
In his first message, the pilot wrote: ‘I am an airline pilot and was flying over the Atlantic Ocean when the captain and I saw a ball of lights moving around each other. At one point we saw them moving at an incredible speed and then suddenly stop and hover.’
‘At that moment I picked up my phone to record them. We kept seeing them all night long.
“One appeared and then suddenly another one. I have another video showing two of them and I turn the camera to show another group heading south,” he added.
In a subsequent post showing the metadata of his video, the pilot wrote: “For anyone asking, here is the location and time my iPhone says we were when I recorded the video.
“We were flying at approximately 512 knots at flight level 350, heading northwest over the Atlantic Ocean. The location that the GPS on my phone shows us is just above Grand Bahamas International Airport.”
The pilot, who goes by the username thtflyingguy, said he was flying directly over Grand Bahamas International Airport in Freeport when he saw the suspicious objects
Flight tracking data (pictured) showed that flight FFT3572 had taken off from San Juan, Puerto Rico and was over the ocean at the same altitude as the pilot had reported
Users quickly gathered under his posts, as some of them shared that they had seen something similar before.
“I saw something like this two weeks ago here in Kissimmee, Florida and when I picked up my phone it was gone,” one person wrote.
“I’ve seen this before. What’s the consensus on this? Seen in the west of the mountains,” said another.
Others were less impressed and doubted the pilot’s findings, with one person even claiming there was a ‘balloon’ in the air.
“It’s not moving abnormally so it’s probably drones,” wrote another user.
Although the pilot reported that the floating objects were UFOs, there is something that looks like twinkling stars.
Twinkling stars are known to reflect rainbow-like colors created by light passing through layers of turbulent atmosphere. It is unclear if this is what the pilot saw.
“We generally trust pilots when they say they see something unusual because they are well trained and used to identifying all kinds of things in the sky,” Christian Stepien of the National UFO Reporting Center told DailyMail.com.
Above is a clip from one of two videos claiming to be from the August 16, 2024 UFO sightings reported in the Palmdale-Lancaster area of California, in the high desert north of LA. They were later determined to be a hoax
‘The ability of an object to move at incredible speeds, then stop and immediately remain hovering is one of the hallmarks of a true UFO.
“Unfortunately, this is not visible in the video, so it is difficult to draw conclusions based on the video alone,” he added.
Recently, California residents were thrown into panic after spotting a UFO zigzagging over two cities north of Los Angeles.
Their reports of a “bright light” that looked like a “shooting star” but more like a “hovercraft” sent shockwaves through social media, while eerie cell phone videos emerged purportedly showing some of the six alleged craft.
But a broad community of experts, including UFO researchers from Harvard’s Galileo Project, told DailyMail.com that the videos were most likely “a deliberate hoax.”
The videos appeared to show swarms of drones being used for an LED light show thousands of miles away from California, the researchers said, basing their footage on landmarks and other visual cues.
Some of these UFO videos were combined with old and unrelated audio tracks that were passed off as property of the videos.
Electrical engineer John Tedesco, who runs a lab affiliated with Harvard’s Galileo Project, told DailyMail.com: ‘The first two videos seem a little suspicious to me.
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‘The patterns of longitudinal lights are well organized. These could be drone swarms.’
However, he admitted: “The quality of the video doesn’t give us much to work with.”
If you want to catch a glimpse of a UFO, the vast plains of Montana are the best place to do it.
A new study finds that the chances of a UFO encounter are greatest in the state dubbed “Big Sky Country.”
The findings will no doubt come as a surprise to residents of Nevada, home to the legendary secretive U.S. Air Force base and ufology mainstay Area 51: Their state didn’t even make the top 10 of the study, which combined sightings with other regional data.
Other top stats included the state of Massachusetts, as data collected from Google searches shows that the state of New England is the most UFO-obsessed state in America, with 13,750 monthly Google searches related to the topic (or 19.64 searches per 10,000 people). But New York and New Jersey weren’t far behind.