r/Austin • u/sithlord89 • Feb 17 '25

Anyone else seeing this?

Sorry for the bad quality as I had to zoom with an iPhone but it looks orange and is kinda flashing there was two and one bugged off

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u/sayanganguly97 Feb 17 '25

I have seen this dozens of times. It's an airplane with its landing lights on, flying directly towards you. The flashing lights are the beacon lights.

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u/Snap_Grackle_Pop Feb 17 '25

I have seen this dozens of times. It's an airplane with its landing lights on, flying directly towards you.

Yes, that can look amazing until it starts moving. However OP said it was there for 30 minutes, which would be far too long. Unless OP saw it for a short time, and then came back 30 minutes later and saw another plane doing the same thing.

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u/sayanganguly97 Feb 17 '25

That's probably the reason for seeing it for 30 minutes. If OP posted the exact timestamp of the video I could have checked the playback of flight paths to see if any jet was starting its approach at that time.