Local media across the US began receiving reports and video footage of what appeared to be, and sounded like, aircraft flying in formation. However, the sheer size of the visible phenomenon fuelled wild speculation online.
Theories ranged from military planes, presumed to be C-17s or C-130s, flying in formation, to UFOs and even suggestions that Santa’s elves were doing some preliminary reconnaissance before the big night on December 24.
13+ planes at high altitude just flew over Denver, heading west. They don’t show up on @flightradar24.
@KDVR can you guys find anything on this? Look closely, there’s a string of flashing red lights as a string of 15+ planes flies across the Denver sky very quietly
“When we first noticed the formation it was horizontally stretched out, then it seemed to hover over the lake in front of our house, and then it flew in a vertical line directly over our house. Interesting but very strange to say the least,” Marci Arant, a South Carolina resident, told RT.com. “My 10 year old was worried we may be getting bombed.”
The unidentified lights seemed to be flying in a westerly direction, fuelling speculation that they might be aircraft forming part of relief efforts for beleaguered California that has been scorched by a series of intense wildfires in recent days.
Denver’s South Metro Fire Department spokesperson Eric Hurst uploaded security camera footage from outside his home which captures the full extent of the formation.
The FAA, Shaw Air Force Base, McEntire Joint National Guard Base, Columbia Metropolitan Airport all denied any knowledge of or involvement in the puzzling shenanigans.
https://www.rt.com/usa/412651-strange-lights-ufos-usaf-denver
