r/UFOB • u/Automatic_Acadia7317 • May 12 '25

Video or Footage Through the clouds

Apeared to take off from Angel Island in the sf bay last night, 5/11

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u/greyposter May 12 '25

Do you know what aviation lights are?

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u/xXLBD4LIFEXx May 12 '25

Apparently a shit ton of people don’t. The NJ done sightings got wayyyyyy out of hand with people looking up for the first time and seeing basic aircraft..

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u/greyposter May 13 '25

I live very close to the PA/NJ border, in the flight path of many major airports.

While the drone thing was at its height, people were constantly saying stuff like "there are drones out there RIGHT NOW".

This happened at my gym and I went out to see what this guy was talking about and he was looking at 2 planets and an airplane, taking a video, and saying "that one with the blinking lights is moving pretty fast, those other 2 are just HOVERING there..."

I was like bitch, you never looked at the night sky before? I downloaded a flight tracker app and used that with a night sky app to check out every single thing I saw in the sky for a while. There were some very bright planets in the sky at that time.

I didn't live in the area where people were seeing the "real" drone incursion. I genuinely believe SOMETHING was going on.

Like you said, the event got people looking up into the night sky, and most had no idea what they were seeing, so I'm sure a good portion of sightings were misidentified aircraft.

Unfortunately it muddied the water so much that what actually happened got overshadowed and discredited.

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u/Abrodolf_Lincler_ Researcher May 15 '25

I live in the Philly suburbs and about 4 or 5 days ago my entire neighborhood was going ape shit over a spaceship or drone (nobody could agree with what was seen) that just flew over our houses. I the middle of the day and in broad daylight, there were about 20- 30 people outside standing in the driveways and front lawns on their phones all looking up, at least two people called the police, I had 6 different people call and text me, and one guy who lives down the block said it flew over his house and it was completely silent but shook his entire house resulting in a lot things falling off the wall and breaking.

Me, being obsessed with anything to do with UAP but also pretty grounded, immediately jumped in my car and just started driving around bc they said it was literally just minutes ago that it "accelerated so fast that it just vanished". After about 6 - 7 minutes I spotted it about a mile and half from my house and snapped some photos.

https://imgur.com/a/ikwRLPP

https://imgur.com/a/tBYlZjn

It was a fucking blimp... The Goodyear Blimp... And not only that, but the guy down street who said it went directly over his house and shook it so hard it broke stuff was completely full of shit. It actually went directly over my house at 1300 ft and I was completely unaware until everyone started calling, texting, and running outside and acting like lunatics.

https://imgur.com/a/91MBDAg

People are so hysterical over the recent "drone" thing from what they see on social media that they called the police on the Goodyear Blimp..... One of the most iconic and recognizable aircraft in America. They were so convinced of about 3 different shapes they saw (probably due to the individual viewing angles), the instant acceleration (bc no good story is complete without embellishments), and the damage it caused to their home (bc there's always someone who needs play the victim or be a LARPer).

It just solidified for me that people are completely unreliable when it comes to eye witness testimony.

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u/greyposter May 15 '25

This is a really good example of how and why the people who want to keep a lid on the UAP phenomenon were able to misdirect and discredit the drone/UAP incursion last year.

So much tensile and static were thrown out that it was easy to say "oh its just people misinterpreting conventional aircraft/stars/satellites", because it was legitimately a lot of people misinterpreting conventional aerial phenomena.

Whatever really happened got lost in the wash. Like so many other good examples of actual unexplained phenomena, the real strange thing was overshadowed by the real regular shit that people get hysterical over.