FD-302, “Airborne Lights and Triangle,” 2002, 2023-2024

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FD-302a (Rev. 5-8-10)
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Starlink, Starlink flares, satelli tes, or meteors.
I t ranged between one to
four lights at a time in the sky .
Some lights did not move, while others
moved in straight lines, someti mes changing direction, and typically did not
move in a coordinated fashion.
Since spotting the lights the first time, -
has seen them
approximately ten times .
At times the lights would disappear for mi nutes
before returning.
-
has seen the lights for 45 minutes up to two
hours .
-
has seen the lights in all directions except for towards the
south.
-
saw the lights three times in the direction of North Dakota
while flying to either Seattle or Phoenix.
He has also seen them off the
west coast and mid-Atlantic coast.
-
d i d not know how far away they
were but ventured the y were between 200-500 miles away.
-
never saw the
lights below the horizon and had not heard about them prior to October 2023 .
During a trip on February _
, 2024, -
was able to capture video on
his Samsung Galaxy S22 phone an event involving white lights.
-
stated
the lights were brighter in-person than on the camera, and the lights were
similar in elevation to him or were slightly higher .
The video is filmed
from the cockpit of his aircraft with the lights turned off .
-
was
located approximately 150 miles northwest of Minneapolis, Minnesota and was
flying towards the east.
The lights were seen towards the north in the
North Dakota region at around 4:36 AM Eastern Standard Time on a clear
night .
-As captured on the video, white lights were seen , sometimes ten or more
present at once, moving around in straight lines and getting
bri ghter/dimmer.
At the 3:27 mark i n the video, -
was not sure if two
of the lights were really close together or if it was a single light with a
tail.
At the 3 : 47 mark, -
did not know if it was three separate
lights .
At the 5:22 mark you can see the flight panel, showing that the
airplane was traveling at approximately .80 Mach, and that the airplane was
40- 50 miles northeast of Sioux Fall s and coul d see the KFSD airport on the
radar.
-
never felt unsafe from the white lights, and did not believe
the lights were within 100 miles of him .
A thi rd event that -
witnessed occurred back i n June 2002.
While
as a reservist , -
got activated to go to Afghanistan.
One
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