One video has gone viral online which seems to show a collection of “UFOs” flying over the ocean.
The video has naturally got some people wondering whether they could be aliens.
The video was posted on YouTube and now has over 900,000 views!
It was uploaded to an account operated by William Guy, and has led to wide speculation over what the lights could be.
It was captured off North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
In the video, the man filming pans around the rest of the empty sky, saying, “Look, nothing in the sky at all, then all of a sudden…” before the focus shifts to the mysterious fourteen glowing lights.
Guy can then be heard asking, “Anybody tell me what that is?”
As the short 30-second video draws to a close, Guy adds, “We’re in the middle of the ocean, on a ferry, nothing around. Look. Nothing around. No land, no nothing.”
Gasps of amazement can be heard from the rest of the ferry’s passengers as they observe the strange floating lights.
This has naturally led people to think only one thing.
The fact that the video is calmly titled, “2019 REAL UFO SIGHTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” doesn’t help the matter either.
Although, when you think about it, a video titled, ‘Lights in sky could be aliens, although likely not,” probably wouldn’t get the same sort of attention really would it?
The comments section was flooded with people offering alternative suggestions about what the lights could be.
The most common explanation for the video was that the lights were military flares.
Despite people WANTING the lights to be aliens, we have a lot of skeptics among us.
One person wrote, “I want to believe, but those are just flares bro. You can see the smoke stream from above many of them as they are slowly falling. The US Navy shoots these off at times.”
This explanation was supported by a U.S. marine.
Derrick Chennault, who identified himself as an ex-marine based at Cherry Point, NC, wrote:
“We used to regularly drop flares out of the back of our plane in the evenings for military exercises in that area.”
He also explained that the pictures look JUST like these flares.
“They are one million candle power each so they were pretty bright and can be seen from far away and floated down slow as they hung from a parachute.”
However, nearby military bases deny any test during that time.
The Marine Corps Air Station nearby responded to the video. A spokesperson for Seymour Johnson Air Force Base denied there having been any aircraft testing on the day that the video was posted.
Though it’s not confirmed that the video was recorded on the day that it was posted.
This just keeps getting messier and messier. Aliens are complicated man.
Regardless of what people thought caused the lights, there was one thing which everyone had to comment on.
The one thing which united everyone, regardless of whether they believed this was aliens or not, was how annoyed everyone was that the video was filmed in portrait mode.
People REALLY stormed the comments.
“Unfortunately, people like this instantly lose credibility by not knowing NOBODY likes vertical video.”
“Well, I don’t know what’s dumber, titling the video ‘2019 REAL UFO SIGHTING’, or recording in portrait.”
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And, “I’m more shocked that it was shot with vertical video.”
Will these videos ever not be popular?
The classic “UFO spotted!” video is such a staple of the internet, that it’s kind of hard to imagine a world without them. The day that there isn’t at least one thumbnail on YouTube of a grainy pixelated dot against a blue sky will be a sad day indeed.
So, do you believe? *X-Files music begins*
While I can’t say that I in any way believe that these are somehow aliens who have travelled millions of miles to hover aimlessly over a small spot of ocean, I kind of wish I could believe that.
The world would seem like a more magical place if I believed in aliens. Maybe I’ll start believing in aliens, if not just as a heady distraction from the horrific political times which are going on around us.
h/t: Fox 10
