{"id":5394,"date":"2025-03-25T13:55:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/what-might-have-we-seen\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T13:55:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:55:32","slug":"what-might-have-we-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/what-might-have-we-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"What might have we seen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What Did We Just Witness?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tonight, my parents and I were outside enjoying the northern lights when we noticed some faint lights in the night sky.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; <strong>Date &amp; Time:<\/strong> March 21, 2025, around 9:20 PM MST<br \/>\n&#8211; <strong>Location:<\/strong> Burdett, Alberta, Canada<\/p>\n<p>We observed about five individual lights clustered together, moving swiftly across the sky. Here are some specifics from what we saw:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The lights were not blinking; they emitted a steady, faint orange and white glow.<\/li>\n<li>There was complete silence \u2013 no sounds at all.<\/li>\n<li>One of the lights broke away from the group rapidly, spun in a circular motion a few times, and then rejoined the others. We saw this happen three times.<\/li>\n<li>My dad, an aircraft enthusiast, checked a flight app on his phone to see if there were any planes in the area, but the sky was completely clear of any aircraft.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We watched for roughly 30 seconds to a minute before the lights vanished from our view. I attempted to capture a photo, but it didn&#8217;t turn out as I would have liked. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re puzzled about what we witnessed and believe it couldn&#8217;t have been drones, as my parents live in a rural area with no neighbors for several kilometers who would even have them. Additionally, the five lights moved independently, and their movements were unlike any aircraft we\u2019re familiar with, especially given their speed and lack of blinking lights. We also doubt they were satellites due to their erratic flight patterns, especially the one that spun around.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m reaching out here in hopes someone might have an explanation for what we saw. I\u2019d love to hear any thoughts or insights, and I&#8217;ll do my best to respond to questions in the morning. Thanks, and have a great night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nWhat Did We Just Witness? Tonight, my parents and I were outside enjoying the northern lights when we noticed some faint lights in the night sky. Details: &#8211; Date &amp; Time: March 21, 2025, around 9:20 PM MST &#8211; Location: Burdett, Alberta, Canada We observed about five individual lights clustered together, moving swiftly across the&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/what-might-have-we-seen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;What might have we seen?&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5394","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\/5394","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=5394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}