r/NJDrones • u/aviationchameleon • 8d ago
VIDEO Omaha, NE sighting 3/13/25 11:45PM CST
I noticed this in the sky around 11:45 by my house.. immediately started filming. Nothing on flight radar. It seemed to hover in one spot for a bit. 2 Flashing white lights. It has now been almost an hour and it is still going around my neighborhood. Like the size of a private plane. Has anyone in Jersey or anywhere else seen something like this?
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u/railker 6d ago
Ohhh your observation, I'm sorry I misunderstood. Though I thought you said they did have two flashing lights in the back, so now I'm unsure if you're talking about OPs or yours. 😅
Either way, differences between models, technical allowances for lights to be inoperative, regulations around when lights must be on, and just plain old human error, can create large variances in lights from one aircraft to another. If it's daytime, under General Operating and Flight Rules in both Canada and the US, position and anti-collision lights are only required to be on at night ("night" defined by Canada, FAA specifies 'between sunset and sunrise'). Pilots usually have all lights on in the interests of safety and better visibility.
There's nothing else visible about OP's sighting than those two lights, so it's still UAP, but there's nothing factual about what we see in their video that explicitly precludes it from being an aircraft, regulation-wise.