At first, the light looks like a single object. Then several lights appear, moving in a circular pattern and shifting sideways.
A person filmed a light near the horizon that first appeared to be a single object, then seemed to become several moving lights. It’s unclear what the lights were.
According to the account, a single bright light later appears to be several lights moving relative to one another and from left to right.
No. The original account offers no identification or ordinary explanation for what was seen.
At around 5 a.m., a person in the northeastern United States spotted a bright light near the horizon and filmed it with a phone held in one hand.
In the video, the light first appears as a single, bright object. Then it seems to become several lights, moving irregularly in relation to one another. They also drift slowly from left to right. The result is hard to interpret: Is it one light, or several moving together?
The incident took place in November 2021. The witness estimated that the light was about 600 meters away. At first, they saw a single bright light near the horizon. Later, several lights appeared, seeming to move in an irregular, circular pattern.
The account does not describe a separate path for each light, so it’s impossible to tell exactly what they were circling. It does describe changes in their positions relative to one another. At the same time, the overall display moved slowly from left to right along the horizon.
The witness filmed with a phone held in one hand, and the camera moved during the recording. That makes it difficult to separate the phone’s motion from the movement seen in the video. But the account also describes the lights moving relative to one another, not just the movement of the image as a whole.
The witness knew the area well, which was described as sparsely populated. These details indicate where the video was filmed and who reported the sighting, but they don’t reveal what appeared in it.
It’s unclear what the lights were or why they first appeared as a single object. The original account offers no ordinary explanation for their appearance or movement, so it provides no answer about what was filmed.
The light moved along the horizon, with several lights within it shifting position. The video captured the movement, not the explanation.