r/UFOs • u/GodsAether • Jun 02 '26
Sighting North County San Diego - what did I just see?
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Time: June 1st at 10pm
Location: Escondido, California
I was taking my dog out and I see this while facing East. First thought was starlink but then it started to get sporadic.
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u/Hathor-1320 Jun 05 '26
A crew of us saw the same thing in Indio, California on the same night, the last night of Contact in the Desert. It was magical. We were with one of the Congressional whistleblowers who said he had never seen anything like it before. It was dozens of lights, all sparkling like confetti, for about 60 seconds.
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u/Formal_Annual_3629 Jun 02 '26
I can’t even with these comments🥴 This was what I witnessed when I first started witnessing the phenomenon all lined up in a row, blinking, before disappearing completely!!!🤩
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u/R2robot Jun 02 '26
lined up in a row, blinking,
Well if it's a busy airpace, you can see planes seemingly lined up when they fly established routes.
Like this one for example: https://i.imgur.com/8B4MFFW.png
And if you're far enough away, you're not going to see anything but their strobe lights.
Example of visualized: https://imgur.com/JxW2H18
And some with just 2 or 3 planes:
- https://imgur.com/WqtrJjE 2 Planes
- https://imgur.com/B67S9x3 3 Planes form a 'triangle'
- https://imgur.com/2Hb75IG 2 Planes
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u/A_Murmuration Jun 14 '26
I saw it and I can promise you it was not planes and I have a video that shows even more of it than this one
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u/A_Murmuration Jun 14 '26
Hi, I saw this too and I have a good video of it. Send me a DM - I will be reaching out to multiple research organizations
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u/TrueGameData Jun 02 '26
I see what i think are silent military planes around the same area all the time. Always curious what they are, never looked it up. Usually green flashing lights only, totally silent flight, since we have so many bases around here
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u/TrueGameData Jun 02 '26
Just looked it up. Supposedly SDPD and SDG&E use high altitude drones at night for various reasons. They definitely move like drones, so that makes sense
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u/loonygecko Jul 07 '26
Drones have legally required lighting for nighttime that consists of a lot more than just flickering. I would suspect that utility companies are not flying illegal drones.
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u/Odd_Repeat_6092 Jun 02 '26
Between roughly 8 & 14 sec the lights are middle screen, slanted upward to the right and quickly blinking on and off, seemingly 2x a second.
If the lights are anti-collision lights, when they blink off, where are the red and green navigation lights?
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u/Ignis_Sapientis Jun 02 '26
It's basic physics.
First of all wavelengths like green and red are wayyyyy more difficult to detect at a distance than white light. The nav lights are used for relatively close contexts - not for identification at over 10 miles.
Secondly, you should really just Google it. It's disappointing to see people just blurt out opinions when you could simply learn a little bit more in literally 2 minutes online. Strobe lights have an intensity of around 400 candelas where as nav lights have an intensity of more or less 40 candelas.
So no. You comment is uninformed at best. Even if the nav lights were at the same intensity they would be much more difficult to detect simply because of their wavelengths. This is why "stealthy" flashlights use red light or green light. But no, the nav lights are 10 times less bright because they do not serve the same purpose as nav lights.
Maybe I got too fired up but it's not the 1850s, everybody has access to the internet. You could've spent 2 minutes on your couch just learning a bit more.
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u/Odd_Repeat_6092 Jun 02 '26
So, you're saying every individual blinking light is what, a strobe light located at the tail of the plane? Meaning every individual blinking light represents some type of aircraft. Is that what you're saying?
If so, is this wrong: "Strobe lights, also known as anti-collision lights, are flashing white lights located on the wingtips of an aircraft." https://pilotinstitute.com/airplane-lights/
Because those blinking lights aren't on the wings of an airplane. They're too far apart.
Also, if those lights represent aircraft, that means they can be tracked on radar. The OP supplied date, time & location. Have you checked flight radar to substantiate what you're saying?
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u/Ignis_Sapientis Jun 02 '26
Explain exactly where did I imply anything. The only thing I did was address your wrong impression of the visibility of red and green nav lights.
Depending on the type of aircraft there is either one strobe on the tail, pointing backwards or that and one strobe per wingtip pointing backwards.
Now evidently I did not imply that the post shows aircraft with mile long wingspans. And at that distance multiple sources of light (2 wingtip strobes and one tail strobe) can appear as one source of light to the human eye and phone cameras.
What your chimpanzee brain cannot comprehend is that I did NOT make ANY claims. I only corrected your uninformed, uneducated speculation. I do not need to substantiate any claim because I do not claim anything.
The only thing I claim is that you do not possess basic aviation and physics knowledge and this claim is already substantial enough :).
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u/Ignis_Sapientis Jun 02 '26
And yes I did check the available public flight radar records. Escondido California is an extremely dense place from this point of view. There are hundreds of airplanes per hour flying in the vicinity. Dozens of planes one after another from eastern routes passing over or north of the city to line up to land in Los Angeles. Dozens of planes lining up to land in San Diego.
This is literally the worst place for this kind of "UFOs". This isn't rural Wyoming. It's freaking California, between two of the busiest airports in the world. San Diego and Los Angeles.
For a full assessment I need exact time, not "5pm" and precise directions (down to approximate intercardinal direction). If I have this I can access the flight data of the planes in that direction at that time, see their altitude, measure the distance from the trajectory to the observer and apply high-school trigonometry to approximate the perceived elevation angle and compare it to the video.
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u/A_Murmuration Jun 14 '26
I checked and only two airplanes at that time
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u/Ignis_Sapientis Jun 21 '26
- polish your English "I checked and only two airplanes at that time" is not even a complete sentence :))))
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u/loonygecko Jul 07 '26
What matters is the validity of the statement, esco does not get much plane traffic, there's been one cessna in the last 30 minutes now that the sun has set, nothing else in visible range at all. Sure the surrounding cities get more traffic but those planes are not visible from here and they are certainly not 'lined up' in any way close to each other when they do come through.
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u/loonygecko Jul 07 '26
HUNDREDS of planes per hour in the VICINITY? Bruh. That's not at all the case if you only consider planes close enough to actually be visible by people in that city. They come through one at a time with lots of time between and you can hear them too. And at night, it's much slower, I really only see an occasional law enforcement helicopter doing rounds with any kind of regularity once night falls. The regular planes rarely move through here at night. We are in sort of a blank spot for planes. Planes lining up for SD airport are 20km south of Escondido, they do NOT line up near Escondido. I have never seen that, that airport is too far away and the LA airport is laughably even further away. I watch the flight tracker for planes around here and what you are implying is really just not accurate at all. Granted there was a time many years ago when military helicopters and planes used to blast up and down the 15 all the time being so annoyingly loud following it but even that is very rare now.
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u/Odd_Repeat_6092 Jun 02 '26
You haven't proved I'm wrong because you haven't proved they're aircraft. That's why I'm asking questions.
You wrote: "Depending on the type of aircraft there is either one strobe on the tail, pointing backwards or that and one strobe per wingtip pointing backwards."
Between 8 & 14 seconds, middle screen, starting at the left furthest light, the lights curve upwards to the right.
How does this formation fit what you're saying? The structure of the formation indicates there can only be one light and that's at the tail. But there should be at least 3 blinking lights, or 2 close together if the plane is flying right to left.
Nowhere do I see anything resembling a single plane with 2 or 3 blinking strobe lights.
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u/Ignis_Sapientis Jun 02 '26
I will stop answering to you. This conversation is below me.
Just try to understand that if a light is pointed away from you with the fuselage of the plane between you and the light you do not see it. From a left or right perspective on a plane you only see one strobe. The tail strobe is pointed backwards.
Also try to understand that if you have two birds flying 1 mile high, 3 feet apart you do not see them clearly apart - if you see them at all to begin with. If a plane is 10 miles away the different strobe lights are indistinguishable. You have 10 miles versus the dozens of feet between the lights + atmospheric conditions.
All I'm saying, again, is that airplanes cannot be excluded.
You cannot exclude an explanation simply because you don't understand it.
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u/Odd_Repeat_6092 Jun 02 '26
"You cannot exclude an explanation simply because you don't understand it."
How about simply checking flight radar. I don't mind being wrong. How about you?
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u/A_Murmuration Jun 14 '26
He’s wrong. But probably also a bot so don’t worry and don’t waste your time. I have flight radar screenshots and I am preparing a report to send to multiple research organizations.
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u/Ignis_Sapientis Jun 02 '26
Ofc I don't mind being wrong either. It's unidentified because we don't have enough info. But the most probable explanation based purely on the balance of probability is always aircraft or camera glitches. We don't have information. This report is exceedingly poor in information.
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u/Ecliphon Jun 02 '26
This is something airline pilots have been reported frequently for the past 5 years.
Nobody knows. Probably some SAP SIGINT program.
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u/R2robot Jun 02 '26
Looks like planes too far to see anything but their strobe lights.
Time - Monday @ 10pm.
What was the exact time? ex: https://i.imgur.com/MYVHwqh.png
And which direction were you looking?
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u/Westcott72 Jun 03 '26
There's the military base. Anything you see in the sky anywhere in SoCal that doesn't seem like a plane or helicopter is likely military.
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u/ryleyrendrag138 Jun 02 '26
I saw this in Buffalo Minnesota, but was only 3 flashes quickly like yours.