{"id":275,"date":"2025-03-09T13:54:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T13:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/what-did-i-see-over-lake-michigan\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T13:54:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T13:54:27","slug":"what-did-i-see-over-lake-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/what-did-i-see-over-lake-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"What did I see over Lake Michigan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What Did I See Over Lake Michigan?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Date:<\/strong> December 23, 2024, 00:50:52 UTC<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> Somewhere over Lake Michigan  <\/p>\n<p>I captured two videos of the sighting: the first cuts off after showing my instrument cluster, and the second is a zoomed-in clip taken a few minutes later. <\/p>\n<p>While flying eastbound over Illinois, I noticed a flashing light to our 9 o\u2019clock position. Initially, I assumed it was another aircraft. However, by the time we reached Chicago, the light had shifted to our 11 o\u2019clock and was positioned high in the sky. That\u2019s when I recorded the first video, which also includes details about my location and altitude. I kept track of the light for approximately 45 minutes to an hour, following its movement from 9 o\u2019clock to 4 o\u2019clock during that time. <\/p>\n<p>Based on my observations, I estimate it was cruising at an altitude of 50,000 to 60,000 feet and traveling at a remarkable speed, seemingly crossing the Great Lakes in mere minutes. <\/p>\n<p>Visually, it appeared as two white lights, one of which was pulsating. Through my binoculars, it didn\u2019t resemble typical aircraft lighting at all. <\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, there was no indication of the object on TCAS, and ATC reported no detection either. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m curious: what could this have been?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nWhat Did I See Over Lake Michigan? Date: December 23, 2024, 00:50:52 UTC Location: Somewhere over Lake Michigan I captured two videos of the sighting: the first cuts off after showing my instrument cluster, and the second is a zoomed-in clip taken a few minutes later. While flying eastbound over Illinois, I noticed a flashing&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/what-did-i-see-over-lake-michigan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;What did I see over Lake Michigan?&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}