NUFORC UFO Sighting 182863

Occurred: 2024-08-28 23:00 Local
Reported: 2024-08-31 18:20 Pacific
Duration: 2.5 hours
No of observers: 2 - Pilot

Location: , , International Waters
Location details: Flying almost directly from Santiago, Dominican Republic to JFK airport

Shape: Light
Color: White
Estimated Size: Unknown
Viewed From: Aircraft
Direction from Viewer: North Northwest
Angle of Elevation: 20
Closest Distance: Several hundred miles
Estimated Speed: Very, very fast. Space speeds

Up to six satellite appearing lights under and to west of Big Dipper tail

I am a major airline Captain. We were flying from the Dominican to NY very late at night. Moonless over the Atlantic with clear skies. Ahead of us was the Big Dipper in the north sky. Below the tail of the Dipper and a little to the west we watched up to seven of what looked like satellites dance for hours. Occasionally making discernible patterns that looked like docking. They would go bright and dim. At first I thought maybe they were military and off the coast of the US. But we didn't make up any relative ground on them for hours which makes me think they must be space born. I would have accepted many different explanations until two of them just went up. And up. And up. And up. Eventually disappearing into the high dark stars. The others remained in the same location by the Big Dipper and were still visible as we made our descent into JFK, eventually losing sight of them.

Posted 2024-09-07