Pilots Report UFO in Ireland

michael59

Celestial
The Irish Aviation Authority has launched an investigation into the incident after the Shannon Airport Air Traffic Control unit was asked if any “military exercises” were taking place.

The first sighting was recorded by a British Airways pilot flying a Boeing 747 jet from Montreal to Heathrow over Kerry at 6.47am on Friday morning.

She described seeing a, Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) coming up along the left-hand side of her aircraft before it "rapidly veered to the north".

The pilot contacted Shannon Air Traffic Control to ask if there were any military exercises taking place nearby.

LISTEN: Terrified pilots spot UFO with' bright lights' shooting across Ireland

LISTEN: Pilots report UFO sightings over Co Kerry - Independent.ie
 

1963

Noble
Hi Michael, great find mate. :p [sorry about the repeat thread.]

I find this an interesting report for three reasons,... firstly it reminds me very much of one of those plethora of old cases that go back as far as man's flight history.... [you know the type of sighting where the armchair critics/debunkers authoritatively inform us that the people that were actually there and witnessed the event, ... the seasoned sober professionally trained and experienced pilots "didn't know what they were seeing ... and of course they do!" and without a shed of doubt it was either a lie, mirage, imagination or one of the stock prosaic explanations that are kept in the bottom drawer on the left hand side of the bureau for such silly situations as this one" ... usually Venus, meteorite or they didn't know that they were flying upside down. oh, and don't forget the infamous 'black-ops possibilities'. And no matter how many glaring holes are in the theory/insistent-claim , 'one' or several of the prerequisite aforementioned 'explanations' can be shoehorned in!]
Secondly, it is not one of those old slippery cases from the distant past that has been watered down or convoluted by the passing of time and many retellings,... it is here and now in 2018 , a time that I hope that much of the confusion about real natural phenomena such as atmospheric anomalies and secret military programs can be considered with a lot more authority than they were back in the day.
And thirdly, it appears that the IAA are taking the sighting by multiple witnesses seriously. [unlike ?.. say the O'hare airport UFO for instance.]
Also I find interesting that some of the pilots themselves seem to be pre-empting the official responses of the investigation, by one of them asking ground control if there were any military exercisers being performed? And another pilot wondering if
"it could be an object re-entering the earth's atmosphere after reporting seeing "multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory... very bright from where we were."

... which I would find a lot more plausible if the 'object' wasn't described by the pilots as travelling at very high speed ...
"the speed of the UFO was "astronomical, it was like Mach 2", or twice the speed of sound."

... or in other words 768 mph which is 'very high speed indeed .... but not fast enough for an object re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. No where near fast enough as it turns out , because according to NASA, those pesky little objects come at you at 6 miles per second. or 21,600 mph.
NASA - Frequently Asked Questions: Orbital Debris

So with the re-entry 'theory' seemingly thrown out of the window, I just wonder what this RADAR evading , very bright , direction changing UFO could have been.??

Cheers.
 

michael59

Celestial
I probably should not have said anything about the double thread, 1963. You're so much better at this than I am...

Yay! I'm so glad you responded, 1963! I feel the exactly the same way.

I don't see how anyone is going to debunk this especially because more than one pilot reported the same sighting. I'm so excited about that because there has never been this chance for them to be able to back each other up before!

Also I find interesting that some of the pilots themselves seem to be pre-empting the official responses of the investigation, by one of them asking ground control if there were any military exercisers being performed?

Preempting is the perfect way of describing it. They're probably just as tired of being ridiculed as the average person whenever reporting these type of incidents. Maybe even more so because of all the time and experience under their belts. It's just plain insulting.
 

Kchoo

At Peace.
These types of encounters, documented, and they even have air traffic reported by multiple professional pilots and here we are, still trying to get our head around the fact that we are not alone.
 

humanoidlord

ce3 researcher
It didn't show up on radar, humanoidlord. Bolide's are traceable with radar. They also would not swiftly change direction like this one did.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2010.01115.x
yeah but we got various reports of bolides from that day:
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and the description of the object moves gave by the witnesses is vague enough that a optical illusion is plausible
 

nivek

As Above So Below
yeah but we got various reports of bolides from that day:
46310749_2135339140016910_4601702195149144064_o.png

and the description of the object moves gave by the witnesses is vague enough that a optical illusion is plausible

Links please, where does that image get its information?...

...
 

1963

Noble
Ah! Bolide is the debunk is it.

Fireballs, bright meteor or bolides [whichever moniker you prefer] are an often cited possible source whenever a pilot [no matter how seasoned] reports a brief encounter with an object that he finds anomalous. But what the 'armchair proposer' [no matter his/her academical qualifications, they invariably weren't there!] and what is infuriatingly obvious is that the proposer all too often has not thought through their proposal with any great vigour at all!
For example, in this case little as it is...the known data eliminates the possibility of the objects witnessed being anything like a bolide incident at all.
Firstly...Did you know that bolides are comparatively a pretty rare sight, in as much as 45,000 have been recorded, but only 1150 have been seen falling, nevertheless they are a well known natural phenomenon , and has been accurately recorded by CNEOS [nasa] for the last 30 years, and if you just take a moment to look at the charts [made by this unsurpassable scientific data collation organisation] then you will quickly see that the slowest bolide on these records is 24,829.9928 mph and the highest recorded is 54,581.2455 mph. And even being forced to labour the point of my original post, the testimony from the highly trained aerial observers ... ie the pilots that were on the spot witnessing the two objects clearly stated that the 'UFO's was travelling at approximately "768 mph". [or mach 2 as you can plainly hear in the tape]
Fireballs
BOLIDES - Visualizing meteorites
Secondly , as can be clearly heard in the tape..."two bright objects bank over to the right, and then climb away at speed"... as witnessed and immediately reported by the crew of three separate airliners.
... and all of the literature that I have read about the characteristics of the meteor, fireball, bolide or whatever, none have ever managed to change course [unaided by striking some other object].... and none have ever performed such a show stopping feat as to "speed up and climb away" after flying parallel to an aircraft!
...and thirdly, as pertaining to the information was already kindly provided by our friend Michael59 ... if the two UFO's reported in the article [and on the live tapes] were somehow to have been 'speed and functional defying bolides' then how come they also managed to evade RADAR detection? .... in the 'evidence against' provided by M59, Bolides show up on RADAR!
Also, the time and duration aspect of the sighting is something that I am less sure of, but nonetheless mindful of the possible downfall of the bolide explanation... insofar as the times of the pilots reporting of the sighting, and the time of the bolide report above in the Hebridean-Atlantic do not match perfectly. I wouldn't normally be quite so pedantic but the synchronicity in a case such as this is far more important than most others, because I cannot find the exact amount of time that the objects were witnesses by the pilots, nor the exact time... but from what I can make out from various news sites reporting the incident , there is an approximate disparity of around three minutes,... and the longest fireball/bolide sighting that I can find on the net is for under 14 seconds.
In the early morning of 28 November 2016, near 04:40 UT (05:40 am local time), a bright, slow fireball with an extremely long duration occurred over the Netherlands
SatTrackCam Leiden (b)log: OT: the slow, 13.8 second duration earthgrazing fireball over the Netherlands of 28 Nov 2016, 04:40 UT

...and even if the two sightings were of the same objects, who's to say that the two land based witnesses 350 miles away did not mistake the pair of very bright fast moving UFO's that the crews on the three airliners saw a few minutes beforehand for bolides? .... Which consulting the facts of the case would seem far more plausible a scenario.. to me at least.

Reading the Euronews article, it appears that the 'Meteor, Bolide or space junk re-entry' explanation came from a guy named...Dr. Chris Lowe, and described as "a sceptical UFO expert". ... But even he had to add the 'back-covering' codicil of "However, he said aspects of the reports were more unusual. because ...
However, he said aspects of the reports were more unusual.
“One of the pilots said the ‘objects’ tracked the path of the plane, to the side — but then it ‘veered off'."
"This is odd, as a meteor would normally maintain its trajectory unless deflected (after an impact or collision) — and it would not normally change directory & ever away," he added.
Lowe said that there have been an "escalating number of fairly convincing reports of flying discs and triangles which appear to defy current technological ability and the laws of physics" over the past couple of years.
"Many of these have been observed by high-value, likely-reliable witnesses, including military and civil pilots, navy personnel & police officers," he added.


Cheers.
 

humanoidlord

ce3 researcher
Ah! Bolide is the debunk is it.

Fireballs, bright meteor or bolides [whichever moniker you prefer] are an often cited possible source whenever a pilot [no matter how seasoned] reports a brief encounter with an object that he finds anomalous. But what the 'armchair proposer' [no matter his/her academical qualifications, they invariably weren't there!] and what is infuriatingly obvious is that the proposer all too often has not thought through their proposal with any great vigour at all!
For example, in this case little as it is...the known data eliminates the possibility of the objects witnessed being anything like a bolide incident at all.
Firstly...Did you know that bolides are comparatively a pretty rare sight, in as much as 45,000 have been recorded, but only 1150 have been seen falling, nevertheless they are a well known natural phenomenon , and has been accurately recorded by CNEOS [nasa] for the last 30 years, and if you just take a moment to look at the charts [made by this unsurpassable scientific data collation organisation] then you will quickly see that the slowest bolide on these records is 24,829.9928 mph and the highest recorded is 54,581.2455 mph. And even being forced to labour the point of my original post, the testimony from the highly trained aerial observers ... ie the pilots that were on the spot witnessing the two objects clearly stated that the 'UFO's was travelling at approximately "768 mph". [or mach 2 as you can plainly hear in the tape]
Fireballs
BOLIDES - Visualizing meteorites
Secondly , as can be clearly heard in the tape..."two bright objects bank over to the right, and then climb away at speed"... as witnessed and immediately reported by the crew of three separate airliners.
... and all of the literature that I have read about the characteristics of the meteor, fireball, bolide or whatever, none have ever managed to change course [unaided by striking some other object].... and none have ever performed such a show stopping feat as to "speed up and climb away" after flying parallel to an aircraft!
...and thirdly, as pertaining to the information was already kindly provided by our friend Michael59 ... if the two UFO's reported in the article [and on the live tapes] were somehow to have been 'speed and functional defying bolides' then how come they also managed to evade RADAR detection? .... in the 'evidence against' provided by M59, Bolides show up on RADAR!
Also, the time and duration aspect of the sighting is something that I am less sure of, but nonetheless mindful of the possible downfall of the bolide explanation... insofar as the times of the pilots reporting of the sighting, and the time of the bolide report above in the Hebridean-Atlantic do not match perfectly. I wouldn't normally be quite so pedantic but the synchronicity in a case such as this is far more important than most others, because I cannot find the exact amount of time that the objects were witnesses by the pilots, nor the exact time... but from what I can make out from various news sites reporting the incident , there is an approximate disparity of around three minutes,... and the longest fireball/bolide sighting that I can find on the net is for under 14 seconds.

SatTrackCam Leiden (b)log: OT: the slow, 13.8 second duration earthgrazing fireball over the Netherlands of 28 Nov 2016, 04:40 UT

...and even if the two sightings were of the same objects, who's to say that the two land based witnesses 350 miles away did not mistake the pair of very bright fast moving UFO's that the crews on the three airliners saw a few minutes beforehand for bolides? .... Which consulting the facts of the case would seem far more plausible a scenario.. to me at least.

Reading the Euronews article, it appears that the 'Meteor, Bolide or space junk re-entry' explanation came from a guy named...Dr. Chris Lowe, and described as "a sceptical UFO expert". ... But even he had to add the 'back-covering' codicil of "However, he said aspects of the reports were more unusual. because ...



Cheers.
we are dealing with people that know what a meteoritic re-entry looks like, so if they saw it and reported it as a completely non-anomalous meteoritic re-entry, then it means that the pilots who were wrong about what they saw, its hard to estimate the speed of these objects and the "turn" could be a optical illusion because no land-based witnesses saw it
if the experts on meteoritic events say its a bolide, then it's a bolide
 

1963

Noble
Hi HL,... I see that you are being very thorough and approaching this case with an open mind buddy.
.... Never mind the unanswered questions and stumbling blocks of the 'expert-explanation' [stock answer number 239... Bolide] ...The debunker say's it's not anomalous... so it's not anomalous! ... THE END.

we are dealing with people that know what a meteoritic re-entry looks like,

Not sure if you mean the pilots here HL?... if you did, then I have no way of knowing if any of the witnesses [not sure exactly how many, but i'll guess that there were at least 6...pilot and co] were familiar with a meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere [btw... re-entry" is a term only used for stuff that we sent up and are getting back ] ... but out of what the amount of witness's experience is, way up there above the clouds, i'll say that I wouldn't be surprised if they told me that they'd seen plenty! ... So begs the question, why didn't they just recognise that they had just experienced that very thing, instead of being puzzled by what they saw?
... But if you were referring to the 'experts' that have jumped out of the woodwork after the event to impress the world with their vastly superior knowledge [as always is the case] ..as in this case a 'Dr Chris Lowe', well tbh, I can't find out anything about this guy who was described in the article as "UFO expert and enthusiast"... no surprise really as in many cases the aggrandising of the so called "expert's credentials" is commonplace within both this genre and in media reporting throughout. .. Then as I keep reiterating , yes he may be familiar with meteors entering the Earth atmosphere [then again maybe only what he imagines it to look like from seeing films of such] but then he wasn't there was he. So how on Earth could he be familiar with what he did not see? Same goes for the chairman of Astronomy Ireland, David Moore whom as seen the opportunity for a bit of free publicity by wading in to the subject last night, and basically saying the same thing that Lowe said, save for calling the objects 'fireballs' and slip in the obligatory HLD snide remark intended to ridicule the subject of UFO/ETH and it's protagonists ...
"The aliens could be very clever, and what it could be is the aliens, to disguise their presence, fire a meteor into the atmosphere. All the astronomers think it's just a meteor and then they swoop in themselves afterwards and get lost in the confusion, guffaw guffaw !"
...and saying that the pilots had probably not seen one before and were probably unnerved by it streaking past their aeroplanes.
Yeah right Mr. 'Armchair' debunker,... there's no need to address the rather large elephants in the room like the ludicrous lack of velocity, the sudden increase thereof and not to mention the impossible change of direction that was witnessed, reported and attested to by all of the witnesses from three different vantage points!! :Thumbsdown:

so if they saw it and reported it as a completely non-anomalous meteoritic re-entry, then it means that the pilots who were wrong about what they saw,

...Probably my fault but i'm not sure what this bit means.

its hard to estimate the speed of these objects and the "turn" could be a optical illusion because no land-based witnesses saw it

Yes it sure is hard to estimate the speed of objects with any accuracy, ... but a discrepancy by all of the experienced pilots and aircrew of somewhere between 24 and 54,000 mph is quite frankly so unbelievable as to be just plain silly wouldn't you agree HL?... but oh no! ... you put it down to "optical illusion" don't you! ... Optical illusion by all of the witnesses in three different vantage points huh...? ... Very interesting that matey! ... I say that if you are seriously mooting that particularly unapt explanation, then all I can say is that you'd give Menzel and Klass a run for their money HL. :Whistle:

if the experts on meteoritic events say its a bolide, then it's a bolide

Surely you meant to say that "if the experts on meteoritic events ,were there on the aeroplanes and witnessed the event and say it was a bolide, then it's a bolide" ... and then I would agree, but only tentatively until they explained the discrepancies [that defy all that we know about bolide characteristic] in full.


Cheers.
 

wwkirk

Divine
Verified Footage of the Ireland UFO Encounter Witnessed by Multiple Pilots

Recently, strange footage that looks distinctly different from CGI was captured on the same day that mainstream media reported pilots saw what appears to be the same thing in the sky, in the Republic of Ireland.


The dash camera footage was published by Sandy Laverty of Coleraine, and it went viral on forums before being reported on by the mainstream UK media.


Two odd, luminescent objects were captured flying across the scene of the sky, and the pilots who some consider to be a very credible source of information, confirmed that they had actually saw the same thing, strongly suggesting that the video in question in fact was not CGI.

At 6:47, the first sighting was recorded by a pilot employed by British Airways, flying a Boeing 747 jet from Montreal, Canada to Heathrow over Kerry.

alien-news-ufo-northern-ireland-ireland-coleraine-british-airways-1500294.jpg


The witness described observing some object coming up on the left-hand face of her plane, before the object “rapidly veered to the north.” However, that dashcam footage shows the potential UFO at the time of 6:44 am, just a few minutes before.

So we are left with a few distinct possibilities if the evidence in question is considered legit. One, the two objects sighted, despite being so similar, were different and the sightings were a coincidence. Or, the more fantastic possibility is obviously that the objects were UFO’s, and they traveled hundreds of miles in a matter of mere minutes.


In the dashcam footage, you can see two glowing objects way off in the distance, and it seems like they come into view very quickly before also disappearing suddenly.

It’s unfortunate that there is no available footage of the pilots’ initial sightings, but we have one piece of information: audio that has emerged of the pilot speaking to Air Traffic Control.

Authorities have actually got involved as well. An investigation into this incident which could involve a UFO was launched by the Irish Aviation Authority, after someone posed the question if any military exercises were taking place, asking the Shannon Airport Air Traffic Control unit.

The response was described as terrifying, and the air traffic controllers said “There is nothing showing on either primary or seondary [radar].”

So the thing didn’t even show up on radar as it should? Could it have been that fast? The concerned pilot managed to make the response “Okay, it was moving so fast,” before continuing that she was wondering what it could possibly be.

At a “very high speed,” a bright light blasted past the aircraft in the direction of north, according to the pilot. After the report she issued, yet another pilot employed by Virgin Airlines confirmed that they had also witnessed “multiple objects” which they observed were “very bright.”

Now that’s what, 3 pilots who have all confirmed they saw the same unexplainable thing? The Virgin Airlines pilot thought it could possibly be a meteor, with “multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory,” they said.

Yet another pilot admitted they were absolutely shocked at the speed of the unidentifiable object they witnessed, noting that the acceleration of it was “astronomical, it was like Mach 2.” How could an asteroid “accelerate?”


 

michael59

Celestial
Very interesting indeed, wwkirk! It not only accelerated but also drastically changed direction.

Definitively not a bolide.

Next. lol
 

humanoidlord

ce3 researcher
Not sure if you mean the pilots here HL?... if you did, then I have no way of knowing if any of the witnesses [not sure exactly how many, but i'll guess that there were at least 6...pilot and co] were familiar with a meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere [btw... re-entry" is a term only used for stuff that we sent up and are getting back ] ... but out of what the amount of witness's experience is, way up there above the clouds, i'll say that I wouldn't be surprised if they told me that they'd seen plenty! ... So begs the question, why didn't they just recognise that they had just experienced that very thing, instead of being puzzled by what they saw?
... But if you were referring to the 'experts' that have jumped out of the woodwork after the event to impress the world with their vastly superior knowledge [as always is the case] ..as in this case a 'Dr Chris Lowe', well tbh, I can't find out anything about this guy who was described in the article as "UFO expert and enthusiast"... no surprise really as in many cases the aggrandising of the so called "expert's credentials" is commonplace within both this genre and in media reporting throughout. .. Then as I keep reiterating , yes he may be familiar with meteors entering the Earth atmosphere [then again maybe only what he imagines it to look like from seeing films of such] but then he wasn't there was he. So how on Earth could he be familiar with what he did not see? Same goes for the chairman of Astronomy Ireland, David Moore whom as seen the opportunity for a bit of free publicity by wading in to the subject last night, and basically saying the same thing that Lowe said, save for calling the objects 'fireballs' and slip in the obligatory HLD snide remark intended to ridicule the subject of UFO/ETH and it's protagonists ...
i am talking about the people that posted this case in a meteor database, its obvious they know what one looks like
Yeah right Mr. 'Armchair' debunker,... there's no need to address the rather large elephants in the room like the ludicrous lack of velocity, the sudden increase thereof and not to mention the impossible change of direction that was witnessed, reported and attested to by all of the witnesses from three different vantage points!!
all explainable as optical illusions
...Probably my fault but i'm not sure what this bit means.
it means that if the observers knew it was a meteor, then that means that the pilots were wrong about calling it a UFO
Yes it sure is hard to estimate the speed of objects with any accuracy, ... but a discrepancy by all of the experienced pilots and aircrew of somewhere between 24 and 54,000 mph is quite frankly so unbelievable as to be just plain silly wouldn't you agree HL?... but oh no! ... you put it down to "optical illusion" don't you! ... Optical illusion by all of the witnesses in three different vantage points huh...? ... Very interesting that matey! ... I say that if you are seriously mooting that particularly unapt explanation, then all I can say is that you'd give Menzel and Klass a run for their money HL.
again the land-based witnesses saw no anomalies on the meteoritic entry, so its pretty obvious that the mistake happened in the pilot's side
Surely you meant to say that "if the experts on meteoritic events ,were there on the aeroplanes and witnessed the event and say it was a bolide, then it's a bolide" ... and then I would agree, but only tentatively until they explained the discrepancies [that defy all that we know about bolide characteristic] in full.
i am once again talking about the land-based witnesses who obviously knew it was a meteor, otherwise they wouldn't have posted it at a meteor database!
 

humanoidlord

ce3 researcher
Verified Footage of the Ireland UFO Encounter Witnessed by Multiple Pilots

Recently, strange footage that looks distinctly different from CGI was captured on the same day that mainstream media reported pilots saw what appears to be the same thing in the sky, in the Republic of Ireland.


The dash camera footage was published by Sandy Laverty of Coleraine, and it went viral on forums before being reported on by the mainstream UK media.


Two odd, luminescent objects were captured flying across the scene of the sky, and the pilots who some consider to be a very credible source of information, confirmed that they had actually saw the same thing, strongly suggesting that the video in question in fact was not CGI.

At 6:47, the first sighting was recorded by a pilot employed by British Airways, flying a Boeing 747 jet from Montreal, Canada to Heathrow over Kerry.

alien-news-ufo-northern-ireland-ireland-coleraine-british-airways-1500294.jpg


The witness described observing some object coming up on the left-hand face of her plane, before the object “rapidly veered to the north.” However, that dashcam footage shows the potential UFO at the time of 6:44 am, just a few minutes before.

So we are left with a few distinct possibilities if the evidence in question is considered legit. One, the two objects sighted, despite being so similar, were different and the sightings were a coincidence. Or, the more fantastic possibility is obviously that the objects were UFO’s, and they traveled hundreds of miles in a matter of mere minutes.


In the dashcam footage, you can see two glowing objects way off in the distance, and it seems like they come into view very quickly before also disappearing suddenly.

It’s unfortunate that there is no available footage of the pilots’ initial sightings, but we have one piece of information: audio that has emerged of the pilot speaking to Air Traffic Control.

Authorities have actually got involved as well. An investigation into this incident which could involve a UFO was launched by the Irish Aviation Authority, after someone posed the question if any military exercises were taking place, asking the Shannon Airport Air Traffic Control unit.

The response was described as terrifying, and the air traffic controllers said “There is nothing showing on either primary or seondary [radar].”

So the thing didn’t even show up on radar as it should? Could it have been that fast? The concerned pilot managed to make the response “Okay, it was moving so fast,” before continuing that she was wondering what it could possibly be.

At a “very high speed,” a bright light blasted past the aircraft in the direction of north, according to the pilot. After the report she issued, yet another pilot employed by Virgin Airlines confirmed that they had also witnessed “multiple objects” which they observed were “very bright.”

Now that’s what, 3 pilots who have all confirmed they saw the same unexplainable thing? The Virgin Airlines pilot thought it could possibly be a meteor, with “multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory,” they said.

Yet another pilot admitted they were absolutely shocked at the speed of the unidentifiable object they witnessed, noting that the acceleration of it was “astronomical, it was like Mach 2.” How could an asteroid “accelerate?”


case closed!
notice the faint trail behind one of the objects and the fact both fade away
 

michael59

Celestial
case closed!
notice the faint trail behind one of the objects and the fact both fade away

They don't fade away. It only looks that way to you because they are traveling so fast and they change direction. Watch the video again, please. They are then spotted by all the pilots minutes after the dashboard cam recording and they traveled a tremendous way in those few minutes. Then they were seen changing direction again and heading north at an incredible speed.
 

michael59

Celestial
case closed!
notice the faint trail behind one of the objects and the fact both fade away

If you read the comments on youtube below this video, eye witnesses on the ground say, they saw two lights traveling east. That means the car with the dash cam was traveling south. When the lights slow down and appear to be fading, it is because they have changed direction and take off at tremendous speed, southbound. The pilots see it 3 minutes later traveling south and then it changes direction again and heads north.
 

humanoidlord

ce3 researcher
They don't fade away. It only looks that way to you because they are traveling so fast and they change direction. Watch the video again, please. They are then spotted by all the pilots minutes after the dashboard cam recording and they traveled a tremendous way in those few minutes. Then they were seen changing direction again and heading north at an incredible speed.
If you read the comments on youtube below this video, eye witnesses on the ground say, they saw two lights traveling east. That means the car with the dash cam was traveling south. When the lights slow down and appear to be fading, it is because they have changed direction and take off at tremendous speed, southbound. The pilots see it 3 minutes later traveling south and then it changes direction again and heads north.
watched again, they definitely fade away, otherwise we would see they stop and start getting smaller
 
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