{"id":6513,"date":"2025-03-25T15:41:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/help-id-a-sighting-4\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T15:41:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:41:59","slug":"help-id-a-sighting-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/help-id-a-sighting-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Help ID a Sighting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking Help to Identify a Sighting<\/p>\n<p>Time: Late night to early morning, around February 22nd.<\/p>\n<p>Location: Southwest Michigan, near Grand Rapids<\/p>\n<p>A family member reported seeing a plane or flying object, which I&#8217;ve attempted to illustrate above. Their description includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Very short body relative to its wing span<\/li>\n<li>Emitting an intense, bright white light not aligned with its flight path<\/li>\n<li>An olive green color<\/li>\n<li>Front lights appearing red and green<\/li>\n<li>Faint white lights on the leading edges of the wings<\/li>\n<li>It appeared to be flying at a low altitude<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While this seems like it could be a military aircraft, after 20 years of service, I&#8217;m struggling to identify anything that fits this description. <\/p>\n<p>For context, Michigan is home to several Air National Guard bases, and it&#8217;s not uncommon to spot fighter jets, especially in the northern part of the state. Southern Michigan also sees transport aircraft, but I can&#8217;t pinpoint any that match this sighting.<\/p>\n<p>I apologize for the vague date and time. Any insights would be appreciated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nSeeking Help to Identify a Sighting Time: Late night to early morning, around February 22nd. Location: Southwest Michigan, near Grand Rapids A family member reported seeing a plane or flying object, which I&#8217;ve attempted to illustrate above. Their description includes: Very short body relative to its wing span Emitting an intense, bright white light not&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/help-id-a-sighting-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Help ID a Sighting?&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6513","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\/6513","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=6513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}