FBI-UAP-D024 FD-302 Airborne-Lights-and-Triangle 2002 2023-2024

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date ofentry
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was referred to the FBI by ~ After being advised
of the identity of the interviewing Agents and the nature of the interview,
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provided the following information :
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stated that starting in October 2023, a l ot of pilots have been
seeing the same event occurring, namely seeing lights in the sky.
Pilots
have been discussing the events over
Pil ots
typical l y saw them between midnight and 3 AM.
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did not know if the
events occurred at that time because that was when it was dark enough or if
it was because that was when the l i ghts were present.
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first observation of the lights occurred in October 2023.
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was flying from Boston, MA to Dublin, Ireland where he saw the l ights in the
northeast towards Gander, Canada.
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was at an elevation of 37,000 feet
and believed the lights were hi gher than him, probably at 50,000 feet or
higher .
The lights were white in color, would start out as dim, and get
bri ghter before they eventual ly faded out .
The fu l l cycle of the lights
would range from 10 seconds to one minute.
The l ights looked like airpl ane
landing lights, but -
knew that it was not them, nor did he think it was
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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.
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has seen the lights for 45 minutes up to two
hours .
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has seen the lights in all directions except for towards the
south.
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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.
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d i d not know how far away they
were but ventured the y were between 200-500 miles away.
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never saw the
lights below the horizon and had not heard about them prior to October 2023 .
During a trip on February _
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was able to capture video on
his Samsung Galaxy S22 phone an event involving white lights.
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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 .
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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.
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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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night he was outside looking at the stars with another pilot.
At
approximately 4:30 AM local time, -
noticed that the stars were getting
blacked out over Bagram.
It appeared as if something huge went overhead,
from west to east, and was an equilateral triangle shape.
The object was
moving silently, at a consistent speed and altitude , possibly 150 knots ,
with no lights visible.
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estimated it was 500 feet in size, but he
could not fully see the shape of the object.
The other pilot with ­
also observed the triangle, and when it passed over stated, "did you see
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stated he did not further discuss the sighting with anyone
else nor did he hear anyone else discussing the sighting.
Looking through the data, -
never found information that could explain what he saw in Afghanistan in
not aware of anything that would explain what he had seen.
Overall, -
believed that not a lot of discussions were happening
openly about the events with the lights .
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did not think there was as
much sti gma surrounding these events, but people were just not used to
talking about it.
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