Description

I'm an airline pilot here in the USA, 26 years now. Until the other night I had not seen anything odd. I was inspired to share my experience when I saw a post today of am identical occurrence. Blew my mind.

What I saw:

We were at 38,000', northwest bound. It was Aug 30, 2023, about midnight (maybe technically 31 Aug). It was a clear night, we were southeast of STL. I began noticing points of light, that would fade from invisible to brighter than all the stars around. Sometimes the cycle was able every minute to sometimes 2 minutes. The brightest illumination would last for about 5 to 10 seconds then fade back to invisible. Occasionally there would be multiple visible, usually just one. We saw up to 5 appear at one time and this included some movement, both relative in my windscreen, relative to each other and relative to the stars in the background. I cannot say how far away from my location they were, or how high. Just that their relative distance from us did not appear to change (didn't seem to get farther from us or closer). Not did the apparent position relative to the horizon change either. I estimate this lasted for about 30-45 minutes. Both pilots saw this and I even brought a flight attendant into the cockpit to also witness this.

I have not edited my video clips at all, so I apologize if the content is rough. I stitched together the 6 videos I took to make one 3:05 clip. Filmed with my cell phone, a Samsung S23.

A few notes: I intentionally filmed other aircraft so anyone unfamiliar can clearly see the difference. I intentionally filmed my cockpit displays as record of location, direction and altitude.

Link to similar post:

https://reddit.com/r/UFOs/s/myjJjuvRHN