Large Moving Bright Red Light Over Battle Creek
It was dark outside. I went out to smoke a cigarette and saw a round bright red light, not flashing, moving slowly towards me from north to south. It was in the direction of the airport here, but it did not have the required red light on the left wing and green light on the right. It also did not have any type of rotating beacon light. It was maybe 5 miles distant at about 3000'. It maneuvered slowly and strangely. It never got closer to me than maybe 3 miles (?). It made no sound, and as it was quiet outside, I likely would have been able to hear it at the estimated distance, like other aircraft I have seen out at the airport (KBTL). It turned towards the north and the light faded quite rapidly and became white. The main thing strange I noticed was the unusually bright red light. I have seen bright WHITE landing lights on aircraft, but never a very bright red one (I am a pilot and aircraft dispatcher and have been involved with aviation my entire life). This is not my first report on this site. I just wanted to post here to see if anyone else saw this. I told my friend about it, who lives in the city of Coldwater (about 30 miles southeast of me. He said he too saw it about 30 minutes later over his town, off to east (a bright non-flashing red light). I checked flightaware.com and saw no aircraft matching the flight profile I witnessed. I filmed it with my iphone6, a bit through the trees and have included it here.
It was dark outside. I went out to smoke a cigarette and saw a round bright red light, not flashing, moving slowly towards me from north to south. It was in the direction of the airport here, but it did not have the required red light on the left wing and green light on the right. It also did not have any type of rotating beacon light. It was maybe 5 miles distant at about 3000'. It maneuvered slowly and strangely. It never got closer to me than maybe 3 miles (?). It made no sound, and as it was quiet outside, I likely would have been able to hear it at the estimated distance, like other aircraft I have seen out at the airport (KBTL). It turned towards the north and the light faded quite rapidly and became white. The main thing strange I noticed was the unusually bright red light. I have seen bright WHITE landing lights on aircraft, but never a very bright red one (I am a pilot and aircraft dispatcher and have been involved with aviation my entire life). This is not my first report on this site. I just wanted to post here to see if anyone else saw this. I told my friend about it, who lives in the city of Coldwater (about 30 miles southeast of me. He said he too saw it about 30 minutes later over his town, off to east (a bright non-flashing red light). I checked flightaware.com and saw no aircraft matching the flight profile I witnessed. I filmed it with my iphone6, a bit through the trees and have included it here.
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Battle Creek
USA
2 minutes
2 minutes
42.31
-85.18
light
MI
Occurred : 1/22/2020 19:18 (Entered as : 01/22/20 19:18) Reported: 1/22/2020 6:11:22 AM 06:11 Posted: 1/31/2020 Location: Battle Creek, MI Shape: Light Duration: 2 minutes Characteristics: There were lights on the object, The object changed color
Large Moving Bright Red Light Over Battle Creek