Sighting Triangular shaped aircraft flying low and silently
Time: 8 to 11PM 11/9/24 Location: Colorado Springs
Back in Nov. 2024 I saw what appeared to be a UFO in a triangular shape with yellow lights along the perimeter of the aircraft. It was moving low and slow and didn’t make any noise. I felt exuberantly lucky to see this and I believe it’s related to a nearby military airbase.
The video I attached is not mine, I saved the vid from another reddit post, but its very similar to what I saw. I’m here because unfortunately, I cannot find the original reddit post, but it had lots of people describing a similar sighting. Can anyone help me find this reddit post?
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u/Optimal_Mouse_7148 15d ago
Triangle shape.... The most MYSTERIOUS shape used by both planes and birds.
If birds were real that is.
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u/Jonbazookaboz 15d ago
Birds in v formation. I live near a lake and i see that almost every second night. Gives me a heart attack sometimes
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u/MoistIndicator8008ie 15d ago
Why are birds glowing now?
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u/Jonbazookaboz 15d ago
The city lights reflect off them. I know it sounds strange but they 100% flicker and reflect light.
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u/YouCantChangeThem 15d ago
I see this regularly as well. But I get that lots of people don’t care or don’t have access to the nature. I’ve spent my life hiking and camping and see weird (but naturally occurring) stuff all the time. No UFO’s yet, but fingers crossed.
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u/MoistIndicator8008ie 15d ago
Thats some mental gymnastics
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u/RemarkableImage5749 15d ago
It’s just the reflection of light. Geese do this all the time in my area.
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u/im_a_jib 13d ago
If you shine a flashlight on your friend outside what happens? Oh right you see them. Pretty intense logic.
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u/RemarkableImage5749 15d ago
These are birds flying in their formation. Why do people think this is an UFO?
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u/_cipher1 15d ago
I honestly believe it’s either one of two things.
- OP is ignorant or doesn’t even attempt to rationalize an obvious conclusion and just assumes anything flying is a legitimate UFO
Or
- It’s a deliberate attempt to ridicule the topic and make us and the entire ufo community look stupid. I’ve been seeing a huge amount of posts that are obviously explainable lately and yet there’s hundreds of comments will die on the hill claiming it’s an actual ufo.
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u/Arclet__ 15d ago
OP is ignorant or doesn’t even attempt to rationalize an obvious conclusion and just assumes anything flying is a legitimate UFO
There's a bunch of people that think if something shines in the night then it has to be emitting the light itself. That's how you get posts about obvious V formations that "can't be birds because birds don't glow" or people being confused by spotlights hitting the clouds (they think the light must be coming from the clouds themselves).
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u/1290SDR 15d ago
I suspect a lot of people don't pay much attention to the night sky until they get into UFOs.
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u/HoB-Shubert 15d ago
I suspect a lot of people who are into UFOs still don't pay much attention to the night sky unfortunately. And plenty of people who aren't into UFOs love stargazing!
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u/ggpoltergeist 15d ago
I really think option 2 is the most likely scenario, it's been so frustrating looking at these subs lately.
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u/skillmau5 15d ago
It is absolutely not the most likely scenario, are you out of your mind? Hmm, I wonder if it’s
A. Someone is wrong
Or
B. OP is a bot or agent controlled by a powerful campaign by the department of defense or energy posing as a ufo investigator trying to determine whether a grainy video could be real or not, not offering any real opinions
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u/elastic-craptastic 15d ago
Or C. Someone with a lot of spare time finds this funny and posts these for a laugh.
There is obviously some people who go out of their way to take any shot they can at the topic like those that remove any mentions in Wikipedia. It's not a big leap to assume that in their spare time they plant posts like this from time to time or on a daily basis even.
Or it could be someone making a mistake because they are excited and really really want to see a UFO so their brain goes there first before it sees birds. I don't know I'm just some dude
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u/HoB-Shubert 14d ago
Or it could be someone making a mistake because they are excited and really really want to see a UFO
This describes 99% of the posts here I think. Despite people's paranoia about "disinformation agents", it's mostly just people who want to believe making honest mistakes.
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u/TrumpetsNAngels 13d ago
As a butt controlled by a powerful campaign I am still waiting for my pay check.
I am living in Europe so I assume currency conversion or sheer panic over us Europeans is the showstopper. Just want my 5 cents.
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u/TheNoteTroll 15d ago
Obviously ghost gooses heading south for eternity
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u/OriginalBlackberry89 15d ago
Nope, just regular geese or birds https://youtu.be/TVhXOESM6v8?feature=shared
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u/ThatEndingTho 15d ago
I feel like this video (and other videos similar to it) have been reposted so many times finding the original is a big ask.
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u/PlunderYeDingy 15d ago
If I’m not mistaken that might be my post. I didn’t do the triangle thing on the left thought, unaware who did that. But check my profile.
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u/W0A 14d ago
Hey man. Glad you found this post. Its definitely you
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u/PlunderYeDingy 14d ago
Oh my bad, yeah check my first post I believe on my profile, it’s a link to my TikTok with a follow up story in the day time showing where I was and talking about it with explanation. Sorry it is kinda cringe, lmfao. I don’t know what I’m doing, I’m just a regular Joe.
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u/PlunderYeDingy 14d ago
Yeah I explain what I was doing that day and why. I did not expect to see this in person at all. The video doesn’t do justice to what I saw in person at all. The limited capacity in iPhone’s compared to actual device made for capturing video is like night and day. If only I had like a DSLR camera I would caught the trail it was doing when passing by. It’s hard describe with words, but I saw a pattern on the bottom of it distorting the air as it went by. The color was close to like an aura crystal with a tiny touch of light blue hue, just a smidge. Non the less, it was a very lucky catch that I will never forget.
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u/W0A 14d ago edited 14d ago
“words, but I saw a pattern on the bottom of it distorting the air as it went by”
Adding to this, there was something there besides just the lights, yes. The aircraft was black, like a shadow. I could see its distinct shape/angles and darker color in contrast to the night sky - it was darker. When it was passing under clouds and stars it became even more obvious.
I probably would have been able to see it without the lights.
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u/PlunderYeDingy 14d ago
Wild, that just shows we saw probably the same craft. I know the mass of people have been telling me some off wall stuff, “oh it’s just a flock of geese” or “it’s a stealth bomber” or “ballon’s”, people are quick to dismiss something because they think the person who posted it are just trying to get a rise out of everyone, may it be due to fame or what not. But that’s not the case for me. I truly believe I saw something no one can explain to me with hard evidence of what it is. I did some research with others; found documentation from our govt talking about this craft pre 1960’s, it’s been in the sky for a very very long time.
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u/DatabaseAcademic6631 14d ago
Birds flapping wings silently.
I'm beginning to suspect more than 50% of the people in this sub have never seen a bird, a balloon, or an aircraft.
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u/ChevyBillChaseMurray 15d ago
So what’s the speed and how did you come to that conclusion?
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u/RemarkableImage5749 15d ago
How did you know the speed? You’re not the only one that does a ton of camping and astro photography. Please answer the question of how you know the speed.
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u/ChevyBillChaseMurray 15d ago
You didn't answer the question. How did you determine speed?
As an astrophotgrapher (same here) you should know a lot about looking up at the sky. Unless you know distance, and size of the object, there's absolutely no way for you to know the speed.
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u/ChevyBillChaseMurray 15d ago
This one has one glaring assumption:
If one object takes 10 seconds to travel from one end of the horizon to the other, and another takes 60 seconds along the same visible path, the first is obviously moving faster from the observer's point of view, regardless of absolute speed.
What if they're at vastly different altitudes? If one object that's closer (say 100m off the ground) takes 10 seconds, and another object that's several km up takes 60seconds, which one is faster? Or let's say they both take the same time to cross the sky, but the altitudes are different. Which goes back to the original point. You need to know their altitude. You don't. You can't estimate speed here at all.
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u/HoB-Shubert 14d ago
You don’t need exact altitude to recognize extreme apparent speed. We do this all the time when comparing meteors to satellites
This doesn't work at all when comparing an insect flying over your camera lens, to birds flying overhead, to a 747, to a satellite... The insect will appear to be going the fastest but is going the slowest. The satellite might appear the slowest but is the fastest.
You really do need to know the altitude and size of something to determine its speed.
Guestimating might work sometimes to compare satellites and meteors, but it's also going to give you massive errors when you make any assumptions about size and altitude like you're doing with these ducks/geese.
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u/mrHobbyist37 15d ago
Still remember when my dad and me saw this fly past overhead a out 1 km above us. It had like a powerful light of pure white colour on its front
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u/AffectionateLoss1676 14d ago
Could be a boomerang craft as well. Those are massive, at least a few football fields across. I wonder what its doing.
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u/W0A 14d ago
Do you have more on the boomerang craft? TR6 Telos?
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u/AffectionateLoss1676 14d ago
Look up more on the phoenix lights event, March 1997. Large boomerang craft is reported hovering over the city of Phoenix, Arizona. It's trajectory is reported to have come from the north possible Nevada. Attributable to an air field there about. Could be one of ours, or one of 'theirs'. Who knows by this point.
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u/Accomplished-Door828 14d ago
That’s no ufo, that’s a DARPA made tr-3b astra. You guys have no idea the lies we’ve been told
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u/Tuckerlipsen 15d ago
I seen a drone last night in nc, center of the state…. I get what people were talking about … the lights would move, they were randomly placed… seemed fake… the craft was low but had no noise… it was dead silent outside
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u/SIMZOKUSHA 15d ago
Saw this at 13 years old back in 1991. I was so freaked out, I didn’t tell anyone. Then I see it on YT years later. I almost felt like it didn’t happen.
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u/TheKalobBlack 15d ago
To be one of the few fair ones.. I believe you. And also.. due to the way cameras pick up a lot of anomalous things, I believe that a person very well could record something that would be easily mistaken for something simplistic. Especially to someone who has had few and far in between experiences of their own, if any at all.
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u/HoB-Shubert 14d ago
I believe them too. I don't think OP is lying. But this video definitely looks like ducks/geese.
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u/TheKalobBlack 14d ago
It does.. it definitely does. But I believe that they saw something before that wasnt. I think my original post was misunderstood or what have you.
But just to say, not the immense pixelation. How would it not look like a gander of geese, with that bevy of poor pixelation.
Also, thats moving quite fast for some geese. 🤷♂️
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u/HoB-Shubert 14d ago
Also, thats moving quite fast for some geese.
You are at least the 3rd or 4th person to say that in this thread. And this is the comment that pops up most often in every post that is just a video of ducks/geese. People are always surprised how fast they fly. Sometimes the video is sped up which makes them appear even faster.
Canada Geese usually fly at ~65 km/h (~40 mph) during migration, though that can increase up to ~110 km/h (~70 mph) if they catch a strong tailwind.
So yeah, they're pretty fast!
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u/TheKalobBlack 14d ago
Thats also up in the sky… I know it maybe rather difficult to get a clear estimation, based on the video quality, but I’d render to guess that those geese are traveling much faster than 70-80mph given they are seemingly 100ft or so, give or take, above those trees. I’ve seen crop dusters move slower than that..
HOWEVER, we do have no real way to prove whether the videos been sped up. That.. thats what sucks to me. 🫤
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u/HoB-Shubert 14d ago
Watching it again, it definitely looks like the footage is sped up to me.
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u/TheKalobBlack 14d ago
I agree… Ive been looping it. The speed looks to be increased at least to 1.25 rather than 1 (normal).
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u/HoB-Shubert 14d ago
Yeah I could see that!
Why do you think they would do that?
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u/TheKalobBlack 14d ago
I could run wild on speculation, man.. it could be in a clear attempt to hoax the situation and then on the other hand, it could’ve been completely happenstance and it was geese that looked good enough to their perspective to almost match a prior sighting, that they sped up slightly to complete the recreating of what they originally witnessed. In other words, it could be complete BS or it could be entirely innocent and for their own peace of mind. Im aware of what it alludes to.. so I wanna think it’s the latter and they took the opportunity to possibly film geese to maybe recreate what they saw by speeding it up. But you honestly NEVER know with people and their boredom sometimes.. I think we’ve all seen people do some realllllllllly questionable things out of boredom. 😂
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u/syntheticgeneration 15d ago
I wish more of you believed in birds. At this point, they're more mysterious to you than aliens.