By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-11-19 19:22:32 | Updated at 2024-11-23 16:02:41
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Commercial pilots have captured 'multiple UFOs' in the night sky as the passenger jet flew above Egypt
A video taken from inside the cabin showed several glowing orbs that the crew of the Boeing 747 said were 'dancing' around the plane.
Captain Van Pangemanan shared the clip on his YouTube channel, saying the UFOs flashed, 'as if they wanted to give a message.'
'We thought the light was a plane, but it wasn't on our radar,' the pilot said. 'Then we thought maybe it was a star, but the stars twinkled quickly and the stars didn't move.'
In his video, captured around 5am local time after the plane departed from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, the UFOs can be seen swaying or wobbling in midair before appearing to go dark or duck into the cloud cover below.
Some have suggested that meteors from the Perseid meteor shower produced the lights, but Capt Van Pangemanan believes the UFOs' movements were too 'various' to be explained by a falling star.
'The light of the UFO in front of us moves freely,' he said. 'The UFO light shone for a long time and moved.'
Captain Ruud Van Pangemanan, who vlogs about his life flying Boeing 747 passenger jets, emphasized that he and his crewmates scrutinized the odd light hoping to find some kind of explanation for the unusual movements they were seeing: 'What is it, in the sky and dancing?'
According to Capt Van Pangemanan, the orb-like UFO lights showed up around 30 minutes into the flight after a 'normal take-off and cruising' — and after he had enjoyed an early breakfast in the jet's cockpit.
Typically, the Perseid meteor shower begins in mid-July, according to astronomer and Old Farmer's Almanac editor Bob Berman, intensifying deeper into the summer until the storm of shooting stars peaks between August 11-13.
The apparent origin or radiant point for Perseid meteors is roughly northeasterly near the constellation Perseus, from which the annual event gets its name.
However, the celestial events actual origins are in debris left behind by the comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, whose path intersects with Earth every summer.
Given that Capt Van Pangemanan and his Max Air Ltd flight were traveling roughly southwest in their Boeing 747 from Jeddah to Abuja, Nigeria, the UFO outside the starboard side of their cockpit would be pointing in the general direction of the meteor shower.
During the August peak of the shower, skywatchers free of urban light pollution can sometimes witness as many as 100 shooting stars overhead every hour.
'We also thought [about] the possibility the light was a satellite,' Capt Van Pangemanan continued, 'because right now there are a lot of Starlink satellites that have just been launched by Elon Musk.'
In the post to his YouTube channel, Capt Van Pangemanan opened the floor to his fans to help solve the mystery, asking: 'Please figure it out yourself, maybe you can Identify this Flying Object.'
'Guys, this is not a joke, or a 'picture' that was made,' witness and pilot Captain Ruud Van Pangemanan said in his video. 'This is my experience of seeing something strange'
Commercial pilots with a Nigerian airline recorded what one described as 'a UFO anomaly... in the sky and dancing' during an overnight flight above north Africa (pictured)
The pilot and vlogger also gave some additional details on timing of the sighting, stating that it occurred 30 minutes after takeoff.
In the comments below his YouTube posting, other pilots chimed in with their own stories of seeing similarly eerie UFOs while on duty.
'I use to fly the 747. I witnessed the same type of light flying over the sea of Japan on the way to Korea,' one pilot, named Paul Bishop, said.
'A month later another pilot told me he witnessed the same thing over the Pacific and another said he saw it over Canada,' he added.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Capt Van Pangemanan seeking more information on the sighting and will update this article when they reply.
According to his Instagram account, the pilot has 32 years of flying experience that has more than 130,000 followers.
