{"id":6120,"date":"2025-03-25T14:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/blinking-drone-just-going-back-and-forth-for-two-hours-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:53:11","slug":"blinking-drone-just-going-back-and-forth-for-two-hours-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/blinking-drone-just-going-back-and-forth-for-two-hours-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinking drone?  just going back and forth for two hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mysterious Blinking Drone? Just Hovering Back and Forth for Two Hours<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not suggesting this is anything extraordinary, but it was definitely something unusual for me. Around 3 AM, after struggling to fall back asleep, I started scrolling on my phone and glanced out the window. To my surprise, I spotted a white blinking object moving steadily back and forth in the night sky, following the same path from west to east. It was quite bright and appeared to be at a low altitude, around five miles away, hovering over the large river.<\/p>\n<p>Curious, I woke up my wife, and we spent the next hour observing it together. She speculated that it might be conducting some sort of survey. The craft only traversed about a third of the horizon before reversing direction and repeating its path. <\/p>\n<p>Does anyone have any ideas about what this could be?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edited:<\/strong> This happened in Glastonbury, CT, on March 11th, between 3 AM and 5 AM, but the activity was already ongoing when I first noticed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nMysterious Blinking Drone? Just Hovering Back and Forth for Two Hours I\u2019m not suggesting this is anything extraordinary, but it was definitely something unusual for me. Around 3 AM, after struggling to fall back asleep, I started scrolling on my phone and glanced out the window. To my surprise, I spotted a white blinking object&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/blinking-drone-just-going-back-and-forth-for-two-hours-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Blinking drone?  just going back and forth for two hours&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6120","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\/6120","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=6120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}