Pilots Report Seeing UFOs, Mysterious Lights, Near DFW

Look, I’d like to think that I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but this sure makes you wonder…

Pilots report object in sky “jogging back and forth”

VASAviation is an awesome YouTube channel that shares interesting air traffic control audio. The channel has just uploaded a video based on a conversation that an airline pilot was having with air traffic control while on approach to Dallas Fort-Worth Airport (DFW). The pilot even directly wrote to VASAviation to share the experience, explaining the following, in part:

Last night I was operating a flight into DFW and we were cruising at 34,000 feet when I noticed two lights in formation. The lights would be super bright and then die out quickly and go away. The lights were quite a bit above us on the horizon. My first thought was satellites, but they kept getting super right and go away over and over. They kept staying in the same 1-2 o’clock position on us for about 250 miles. And would be moving in formation, sometimes really fast on the horizon. It was super odd because they were high and fast and kept with us for a long time.

You can listen to the air traffic control audio for yourself below, where the pilot describes objects that are “kinda jogging back and forth, left and right, for the past like half hour.”

Here’s where this gets even more interesting. Aviation YouTuber Noel Philips shared a picture that his wife, Rachel, took, while flying as a passenger that same evening, showing some strange objects in the sky (I’m sharing the picture with permission, so thanks to Noel for allowing that).

Before anyone calls me out for sensationalizing things, let me emphasize that when I use the term UFOs, I mean that literally — these are unidentified flying objects. That doesn’t mean there are Star Trek-style alien commanders onboard, and that they’re invading earth (or maybe they are, I dunno!).

What could explain these strange objects?

Let me acknowledge that people often mistake Starlink satellites for some sort of strange UFOs, when that’s obviously not the case. But as far as I know, Starlink satellites don’t generally “jog” back and forth in that way.

VASAviation has a ton of experienced commercial pilots who are viewers, and I can’t help but take note of the sheer number of pilots who are commenting that they’ve seen similar things, when they’re very familiar with what Starlink satellites and other common satellites look like.

As I said at the beginning of the post, I don’t want to be a conspiracy theorist. Personally I sort of think that I do believe in intelligent life on other planets, though it’s not something I’m terribly confident in. I also don’t rule out the whole aliens in spacecraft things (sort of).

I’m all for learning from people who are smarter than me, as I’d love for there to be some logical and simple explanation. So, does anyone want to take a crack at what these objects are that are just zigzagging back and forth in the sky?

Bottom line

While someone reporting seeing something strange in the sky is hardly a new phenomenon, it’s interesting that a pilot reported seeing weird objects in the sky, and separately, someone got a picture of them. I don’t know what to make of this, but like I said, I’d love if someone could provide some insights.

Anyone have a theory as to what these strange lights in the sky are?