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Looks like the creatures from the movie NOPE are back.....

 

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Saw this the other day, but rather than a UFO it looks like a large unnamed anatomical part to me. Obviously I can’t say what part, but I’m sure I’m not the only one that thought that when they first saw that cloud formation.

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1 hour ago, cmpbellsjc said:

but rather than a UFO it looks like a large unnamed anatomical part to me

Nonsense, It's quite clearly a supermassive Chelsea Bun. Lovely with a cup of tea.

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It does look like a cinnamon bun!

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LoL!

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Interesting as I was   over Turkey Sunday night and there was some very high altitude  UFO activity  going off.

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Previously 24 years on 747-400.Technical advisor on PMDG 747 legacy versions QOTS 1 , FS9 and Aerowinx PS1. 

1 hour ago, jon b said:

Interesting as I was   over Turkey Sunday night and there was some very high altitude  UFO activity  going off.

 

Do you mean in addition to the "interesting" cloud above? 

1 hour ago, jon b said:

Interesting as I was   over Turkey Sunday night and there was some very high altitude  UFO activity  going off.

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Yes, high altitude lights appearing from nowhere , becoming very bright then fading to nothing, then reappearing, occasionally singular but on one occasion I counted 5 all appearing together. They can  stay stationary for several minutes or start moving around often chasing each other , both lateral and vertical movements. Given their  aspect and  estimated distance distance I’d say their altitude would be well in excess 80,000ft and their speeds from stationary to hypersonic. 
we watched them for over 30 minutes.

I also spotted them 2 weeks previously in roughly the same area over Turkey.

As I know you follow these things you may be interested to know that I’ve had messages from 3 different pilots who’ve seen  exactly the same activity over the Atlantic in the last 2 months.

A friend of mine  says he’s either spotted them personally  or heard radio reports on every Atlantic night flight he’s done in the last month.He said he counted at least 8 different aircraft reporting the high speed high altitude lights on the 123.45 VHF chat frequency over the Atlantic last week.

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29 minutes ago, jon b said:

Yes, high altitude lights appearing from nowhere , becoming very bright then fading to nothing, then reappearing, occasionally singular but on one occasion I counted 5 all appearing together. They can  stay stationary for several minutes or start moving around often chasing each other , both lateral and vertical movements. Given their  aspect and  estimated distance distance I’d say their altitude would be well in excess 80,000ft and their speeds from stationary to hypersonic. 
we watched them for over 30 minutes.

I also spotted them 2 weeks previously in roughly the same area over Turkey.

 

 

Yep, happening a lot lately. I was listening to the ATC Comms on YouTube the other day. Same thing, high altitude, high speed and flying in circles, around each other.

 

 

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1 hour ago, jon b said:

Yes, high altitude lights appearing from nowhere , becoming very bright then fading to nothing, then reappearing, occasionally singular but on one occasion I counted 5 all appearing together. They can  stay stationary for several minutes or start moving around often chasing each other , both lateral and vertical movements. Given their  aspect and  estimated distance distance I’d say their altitude would be well in excess 80,000ft and their speeds from stationary to hypersonic. 
we watched them for over 30 minutes.

I also spotted them 2 weeks previously in roughly the same area over Turkey.

As I know you follow these things you may be interested to know that I’ve had messages from 3 different pilots who’ve seen  exactly the same activity over the Atlantic in the last 2 months.

A friend of mine  says he’s either spotted them personally  or heard radio reports on every Atlantic night flight he’s done in the last month.He said he counted at least 8 different aircraft reporting the high speed high altitude lights on the 123.45 VHF chat frequency over the Atlantic last week.

I must confess to seeing something that's sounds very similar a few years ago. I was on the ground though and there were two of them. I can't properly explain what I saw without drawing and using my hands. They came from different directions, turned 90 degrees at high volocity, flew in a parallel formation in a straight line for a short while and then accelerated in different directions at speeds I could barely comprehend and then disappeared. My sense was they were very high up. When I saw the first one moving it looked like a satellite. Until the other one showed up and did what they did.

They weren't any aircraft I'm familiar with.

I haven't told many people that. You can make of that what you will.

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Yes, they’ve been knocking around for years, but as you say they’re quite busy at the moment, there’s been a marked increase in the little fellas buzzing around since November.

That was an interesting video, the descriptions given over America tally exactly to what I described above from over Turkey and what is also being seen over the Atlantic.

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@Jazz

would you describe the objects you saw as being a yellowish white to amber colour?

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3 minutes ago, jon b said:

@Jazz

would you describe the objects you saw as being a yellowish white to amber colour?

At first they just looked like fast moving white lights much like a bright star or when the space station passes over. As they joined formation they got brighter with a slightly more yellowish tint. Then they went back to the original colour and brightness before, well, before they just accelerated off into nowhere at an impossible speed.

I'm aware of how unlikely this sounds. But it's what I saw.

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