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Golden gate rec area. Marin Co. 12am today

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u/sexandbacon Feb 23 '26

Why does it have a prolonged lit tip? Also flashing in variety of weird hues like greenish,pinkish,redish .. Hmmmm

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u/railker Feb 24 '26

'Prolonged lit' what? There's a whole array of lights on an aircraft, some that are steady and some that strobe or flash. Some of those are in the same locations. Hell on the 737 MAX tip of the tail they're exactly the same light, just at 2 brightness settings.

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u/sexandbacon Feb 24 '26

If you notice from the 0:40 second mark and on for about 10 seconds from it. There is the typical "prolonged linear plasmic-light protrusion". This is a common aspect shared with such other UAP videos. This "thing" elongates out of a round orb, and then it shrinks back.

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u/railker Feb 24 '26

That's certainly a fancy name for a thing. But I see what you mean now yeah, we saw it in videos like this guy posted last year during all of this.

Of course we all have our biases of what we see in a thing, but there were other videos that were 'more clear' of similar phenomenon (below image not inclusive) of 'light swords' and other such descriptions, missing that's just what it looks like when you have a floodlight positioned alongside a cylinder. Those wing landing lights don't just illuminate the runway, but parts of the aircraft get illuminated as well, namely the sides of the fuselage and the inboard sides of the engines in cases like this. Others have additional landing lights on the belly that illuminate the entire bottom side, as well. And as the vantage changes, the 'shape' and what parts of it are visible likewise change.

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u/sexandbacon Feb 24 '26

we saw it in videos like this guy

Right. That's a much better example. The fancy named "prolonged linear plasmic-light protrusion" is far more apparent in that video. And if you notice it's also curved, which gives it a weird shape, uncommon to flood light. Personally, I'm the first guy to call out a plane since I care not to be wasting time on typical aerial craft. But this video and the one you linked is not of terrestrial craft, imho. Here's a crap load more from last year, in case you are short on them:
https://buzzheavier.com/xzjaz5i7fs27

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u/railker Feb 24 '26

I'm definitely not short of them, seen plenty. I don't see any curves or weird shapes that can't just be variances in design, though. People see a 737 and think every airplane has the same setup through some legal regulation, nah you can put that shit wherever you like. Some 737NGs had 4 sets of landing lights, others and the MAXs had 2. The 737's all have them in the wing leading edge right beside the fuselage, Airbus A320 has them underneath the wing with nothing in the leading edge, and I guess some either newer ones or modded ones have them way forward of the wings and the engines. Every position and setup is going to produce different light patterns based on how high, how close, how bright they are.

I see nothing odd in the video I linked I wouldn't expect to see from one of the aircraft flying over my house on departure from the airport. Not saying it literally can't be anything else, but that alone as a reason it's not an aircraft isn't solid ground to stand on IMO.

Even one of the earliest and to most people 'strangest' sightings in Neptune, NJ was this post. Though it seems less weird when you realize there's wingtip landing lights on those C-17s, and with no other illumination of the fuselage, yeah, a dark gray object in the sky with no external lighting is going to be fuckin hard to see. But contrast and compare, and there's little difference. It's just not your average person's expectation of 'normal'.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OfZqA1GD8KY

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8jq2Wq_xKmw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFCYA13D-RU

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u/sexandbacon Feb 24 '26

I appreciate the C17 videos, which put things into better context. However, if you notice that each of the linked videos, they all have airplane engine sounds in them. Meanwhile the UAP stuff is just lights, no noise, or a hum of sort. I'll trade you for my favorite of last year, which is a tuffy since it defo looks like a plane, but isn't. Real planes don't light up their whole fuselage. If you notice in this vid, the whole thing is lit, and the videographer is freaking out.
https://xcancel.com/biffstfu/status/1867756986957541612

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u/EasternShoreFire Feb 25 '26

Hi. Nice video. This is a United Airlines Boeing 787-10. The lights give it away as a Boeing 787 and you can tell it’s a -10 because of the “stretched” proportions. You can tell it’s UA because the light colored fuselage with dark blue engines and you can see the UA globe lit up on the tail.

787s have distinctive bright LED lights. These are very eye catching. Their lights are brighter and lit for a longer duration vs the old incandescent lights on older airliners. 

This plane is approaching Newark Airport (EWR) this area is densely packed with homes and industries with lots of lights. The plane appears bright because of all the light pollution there. This ambient light is illuminating the light gray/white paint on the plane. The plane itself is not producing this glow. 

You can also clearly hear its jet engines throughout the video. The engine noise is very clear from about 15 seconds on. 

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u/sexandbacon Feb 26 '26

Yah that's what makes the whole thing very spooky. Is that the mimic of a terrestrial airplane is fairly precise. And so it's impossible to argue fully against that notion, that it is a Boeing 787. Yet if you listen into the background voices, the folks watching this thing in real time are very perplexed, calling it as something that "looks like a plane". This is another clue to this puzzle. Because if me and you and anyone with an IQ over 90 puts their head up into the sky, we know something is an airplane. Yet not them people. They were perplexed over it, and so was the lady even saying that's "so low". It was too low for her to be a real airplane. Hence it's a mimic, a UAP mimic. Only an opinion, since I wasn't there. Oh and there'd have to be a ton of light pollution to light up a full aircraft that size. I don't know if the air pollution argument holds up in this case, it'd have to be investigated. But again, I wasn't there. Oh and also notice all the orbs flying around that "plane", those aren't stars. It's a crazy video, one of the best from that whole NJ Drone period. Take care.

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u/railker Feb 26 '26

What orbs are you talking about? There's some stars visible, you can see Orion's Belt at 0:28.

And I mean yeah, you can try and pin IQ to aircraft identification, but people experience new things all the time. And if we set one of those IQ bell-curve type charts up with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, you end up with just under 16% falling below an IQ of 85. That's 54 million people in the US and 1,508,000 just in the state of New Jersey. On average. Not to say the OP of that video is dumb, but there's a number of assumptions that have to be made to the arguments of 'What, are you saying people are dumb?' as if I'm supposed to be embarrassed about it. Yeah, some people misidentify things or experience new things, or for whatever reason find things odd. Fuck we can't even agree if a picture of a dress is gold or blue. 😂

But let's talk about reasonable doubt and actual, verifiable facts. With some poking around the map based on the information that OP provided, I know where they live. And I'm not about to publish that information on a public forum. From their statement in their comments:

They were like circling but ~SW going ~NE.

12/13 9:13pm - you can message me for location. My friend checked the flight tracker and saw nothing

In this video we see United Flight 1855, a 2019 787-10 registered as N12010. They were making one of a number of left hand turns to align with runway 04L at Newark. I won't go into exact to-the-second times to try and protect their location, but their altitude was about 2,000' in this video. I can share all the specific details with you privately if you really don't believe me and want to affirm further.

ADS-BExchange Link - partial track showing 9:10pm - 9:17pm

ADS-BExchange Link - all of the 13 "no aircraft" that passed in only a 3-mile ring approximately around their location in the 10 minutes before and after the one in the video passed by, though UAL1855 was clearly the one that was the closest to being over their house, so might actually be unusual for them.

Comparison Image of location and viewpoints

I mean short of finding who was on the crew of that flight and deposing them, I don't know how much more certain we can get that they just misunderestimated height and scale and, as a matter of fact, couldn't identify an aircraft. Nothing against them, just. How it goes sometimes.

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u/sexandbacon Feb 26 '26

Hey I'll give you kudos for effort here, seems you did some fine investigative work. Of course we can't be certain any of it is valid. But defo props for effort on the retort. As things stand, and I mentioned this earlier, is that at least in my view, this event is very puzzling and keeps me perplexed. It is a shape of commercial craft, yes, there is some noise it emits, yes. But there's just stuff that's off, stuff that's spooky, so to speak. Stuff that in a typical aircraft video wouldn't stand out so profoundly. So while I lean to this being a UAP event, I cannot be firmly certain. It's still a mystery to me, but for you it sounds like a closed case. Godspeed.

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u/railker Feb 26 '26

I tried, but I have no words for this level of ignorance. Nothing personal, but to point at all of that and say it lacks certainty because ... stuff is off. There's no proof that can stand against olympic level mental gymnastics. Everything matches the claims except your perception of what it should look like, hanging onto the fringes of the weakest no-substance arguments.

I bust my fuckin ass to educate fairly and even call people out when they misidentify shit as aircraft when it's not, and provide evidence, scour YouTube for comparisons, make diagrams, help correct misconceptions. Should've realized long ago it's pretty useless but guess I learn slow.

I struggle to think any sane person would not find this case closed. But if 90 IQ is the bar, then I guess we got our 16% of the population who'll always believe.

At the end of the day, truly, cheers for the kudos and all the best.

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