By Tim Binnall
A pilot flying over North Carolina captured footage of a curious group of lights that some have likened to the legendary 'foo fighter' UFOs from World War II. The intriguing incident reportedly occurred on Friday, August 12th as the unnamed witness was en route to Washington D.C. while working for a "major airline in the United States." The sighting began when he and the captain of the aircraft noticed some pulsing lights off in the distance. Over the next 35 minutes, the duo watched the weird illuminations which the witness described as lasting around 8 to 10 seconds and building gradually from dim to very bright before fading into darkness.
Mystified by what he was seeing, the witness managed to capture some of the sighting on film and provided a wealth of detail in a report on the experience. Noting that "very few civilian aircraft can fly above 41,000 feet," the pilot indicated that "the objects were about 10 degrees above the horizon from our perspective." Additionally, the witness observed that the objects "never seemed to get any closer, even though we covered about 250 nautical miles in that time." That puzzling aspect of the sighting has led the pilot to theorize that "they were in either the upper atmosphere or in space."
According to the witness, they ultimately observed the pulses occur more than 80 times, there occasionally appeared to be three objects in total, and the sighting only came to a conclusion because the aircraft began to descend on the way to its eventual destination. As for what the anomalous pulsing lights could have been, the pilot argued that the capability of the objects combined with the duration of the sighting would seem to preclude prosaic possibilities such as military aircraft, flares, or satellites. With that in mind, what do you think the witness filmed while flying over North Carolina? Share you best guess with us at the Coast to Coast AM Facebook page.