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Time: 0200 22/July/2025
Location: Naha, Okinawa, Japan
Looking south east into Naha from about 2km from shore.

Hi all,

My first time posting in here. Please go easy on me if I've made a stupid observation!

I've been seeing orbs/lights near enough every night now since the start of the year 2025 when I wonder outside with my dog at about 10pm Southern France, near a place called Caylus in the Tarn-et-Garonne. I will not post my exact location.
I've not been able get videos of them as they are very faint and they do not show up on my camera.

However, I am now working off the coast of Okinawa and again I see these orbs/lights that show up and these are bright enough for my camera to pick up, they don't always travel in straight lines, they hover, they move up, down, left and right and sometimes shoot off or just fade away. When there is multiple (most I have seen is a group of 5) they sometimes come together hover around and either fade or shoot off.

I've now for the first time been able to get a video of one that has flown over the vessel, moves a little then fades off. I then move the camera to another one that fades out immediately. Understand I am on a ship that is currently on DP so we are stationary but it does bob up and down a slight bit but we are not moving erratically.

My background: I am an Offshore worker, I work on subsea vehicles all around the world and work in depths up to 3000 meters. I've seen some weird small cigar shaped objects zoom past cameras at 2000-3000m while working off the coast of Brazil and Guyana. I have seen orbs working off the coast of France in the English Channel while using some large loud hammering equipment to install wind turbine piles for the foundations. They hovered over the vessel and faded away again but not in the distance, directly above the vessel.

Has anyone got a reasonable explanation on this? Could these just be satellites flaring or some sort of flare or military drone activity? If there is a reasonable explanation I would love to hear it as I see these things a lot.

Please ask questions and I will try to answer them!