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This was taken at Ocean Isle Beach, NC on July 9th, 2018. Using a Sony a6000, this capture was taken at 10,000 ISO, 22.5mm focal length, aperture of f4.0 and shutter speed at 15 seconds.

I had been tracking these faint blinking lights, flying from right to left (in a kind of parallelogram formation). They didn’t appear to be planes (lights were much more faint than your typical aircraft and they also didn’t have any colored lights).

I clicked the shutter (camera on 10 second timer), walked out and kept an eye on them. During the exposure, the lights flashed, with all 4 of them being stationary and then disappeared. I didn’t see any of the faint tracking lights after that, completely gone. You can see how bright the lights were by looking at the reflection they created on the ocean.

Anyways, I’ve always chalked it up to military drones and a young remote pilot having some fun with me. Curious of any other perspectives out there.