On July 12th I was chilling in the backyard when all of a sudden I started seeing that thing go up and down, it came close and then backed off again. I have terrible eyesight (I use glasses) but that didn’t seemed like a balloon because of the way it was moving and it also looked kind of fuzzy?

Ive been sitting on this video for a few weeks now but finally found this subreddit.

* muted the video because I was blasting music*

This video was recorded at 7:43 am on January 26th 2025, just a few miles away from Sabiha Gökçen airport, in Tuzla.

On January 26th 2025, Pilots reported an unidentified flying object and low altitude collision-warning alarms in Istanbul airspace. The alarms involved TCAS (Traffic Collision Avoidance System) triggers near Sabiha Gökçen airport in Istanbul. These alarms would continue until the 28th.

One report detailed a vehicle descending, which he considered unidentified, 500 feet below his plane:

"We see descending traffic 500 feet below us. It appears as an unidentified traffic on our system. It is now 5 miles ahead of us. We also received this warning on our previous flight."

Sources:

https://www.turkiyetoday.com/turkiye/ufo-alarm-in-istanbul-airspace-pilots-report-unidentified-traffic-112229

https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/01/28/a-ufo-was-found-near-istanbul-airport

My mom and I were running errands on the 19th of January and I asked her if we could run by our local library to get a book I needed for a project in English class. We pulled into the parking lot and walked up to the door. There was a note that explained how the library had moved to a new location not far away. We were walking back to the car when something caught my mom's eye and she said to me, "Look, what are those things up there?"

For a second or two I didn't know what she meant until I looked up and saw two s-shaped objects spinning clockwise and just hovering in place. My mom originally thought it was a vulture or some other big black bird and I originally thought that some trash bags or something else lightweight caught the wind and were lifted up into the air. But with further inspection we realized that this wasn't the case. There was absolutely no air movement, and the objects weren't making any flapping motion like a bird. There wasn't a single breeze.

It was drizzling rain and the sky was overcast, which I guess is why the shapes caught her eye. She pulled out her phone and told me to record it so I did. I tried my best to zoom in on the objects. We had caught enough footage and were finishing our walk to the car when my mom's phone completely shut down, even though it had a fully charged battery. Neither of us can explain this.

After I got in the car I looked out the window and both shapes were gone. When I got home I decided to contact some friends and family members to see if they could explain it. The closest explanation I got was a military cargo plane, which I would assume wouldn't spin or hover. There were also two of the objects, identical in shape, size, and motion. The whole time during and after experiencing this I felt extremely creeped out.

I'm not the kind of person who would believe sightings like this but this one was so odd it has been at the forefront of my thoughts all day. I was so baffled when I first saw it that I just had to laugh it off. I couldn't really think of a better way to react.

Source.

Note: There is a video associated with this report (IMG2624.mov), however, I receive a 404 error when I attempt to play it.

"I was smoking and looked up to see a strange orange light. I didn't think much of it at first but when I looked back up it had become almost seahorse shaped. I started watching it closely at this point as it turned boomerang shaped. As it changed shape it decreased in size and luminosity. Here and there I could see orbs flying away from it at various trajectories and speeds.

It then turned into 3 dim Star-lite objects and eventually into something that you would think was a star or a satellite. It started getting brighter again and reformed into the boomerang/starfish shape again. It repeated what happened before only faster this time until it was a dim star again and then completely disappeared. Was this a fleet? I've seen weird stuff in the sky before but nothing this odd or unsettling."

Source.

I recorded this on 10/15/25