Video of Glowing Object Streaking Behind Outer Banks Lighthouse
Article by Mark Price January 13, 2021 (kansascity.com)
• On January 7th, at 10:20 pm, North Carolina photographer, Wes Snyder, was spending the night at the Cape Hatteras lighthouse on the Outer Banks shooting time-lapse photos for a video he is producing. Reviewing his footage, Snyder noticed an object streaking across the sky behind the lighthouse. (see 3:08 minute video below)
• “It’s much larger than your typical plane appears,’ says Snyder, “and it’s moving way faster than clouds.” Snyder thinks that the best explanation is that it is space junk or a satellite burning up in the atmosphere. It looks a lot like a meteor, but Snyder says that’s only because he sped the video up.“ The object was visible for just under 3 minutes total so I doubt it’s a meteor, (or) shooting star as those typically only last a few seconds.” Snyder notes that the object also appears to have corners in some of the time lapse photos.
• Some Facebook commenters said that it was “clearly extraterrestrial”, while others suggest something more ghostly, tied to the thousands of mariners who died in Outer Banks shipwrecks, known as the ‘Graveyard of the Atlantic’.
• North Carolina’s coast is well known for reported UFO sightings. Large segments of the Outer Banks are undeveloped and the lack of light pollution allows for extended viewing of the night sky. Add to that the ocean reflecting light and you have a perfect mix for strange sightings.
• Experts believe some of the suspected UFOs that have been reported off the coast are actually military exercises employing a mix of aircraft and flares, or a US Coast Guard helicopter, or lights on a fishing trawler.
• “I’m happy to see the response, as it validates that I’m not crazy and that I captured something unique,” Snyder said. “I’ve seen tons of planes, meteors, shooting stars, satellites in my time lapses before and this just didn’t act like anything I’ve ever seen before. …[I]t’s been fascinating to see all the various guesses and responses. I always love when I capture something I can’t explain.”
• [Editor’s Note] This sighting brings to mind, a famous video taken by a tourist to the Outer Banks in October 2019 while traveling on a ferry across the Pamlico Sound. (see 3:16 minute video below). William Guy believed that he spotted a “fleet” of fourteen luminous objects in a cluster in the western sky as the sun was setting. In the video, Guy remarks, “We’re in the middle of the ocean, on a ferry.”
In my ‘Editor’s Note Update’ added to the October 2019 ExoArticle (see here) I noted that Guy’s video is pointed toward the sunset – or west. When he pans slightly to the left to see the UFO flotilla. Well, that wouldn’t be pointing east toward the Atlantic Ocean. That would be pointing southwest. This makes sense because in the YouTube video’s description, Guy says that the ferry is crossing the “Pimlico Sound lagoon”. As a native of the Outer Banks area (Virginia Beach) I remarked: “It’s the “Pamlico Sound” and it’s no lagoon. It is a huge body of water – so wide that you cannot see across it. So it looks a lot like the ocean. But it’s the sound. And they were crossing it from Ocracoke to Swan Quarters North Carolina… Therefore, these lights would be situated over the Croatan National Forest. Beyond this forest is the city of Jacksonville, NC and Marine Corps’ Camp Lejeune.” So this UFO flotilla could very well be a Marine Corp aerial exercise.
A lively debate has erupted on social media over a video that appears to show an unidentified flying object last week over North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
It looks a lot like a meteor, but photographer Wes Snyder says that’s only because he sped the video up.
“The object was visible for just under 3 minutes total so I doubt it’s a meteor, (or) shooting star as those typically only last a few seconds,” Snyder posted on YouTube.
The object also appears to have corners in some of the time lapse photos.
Snyder, who is well known in the Carolinas for coastal photography, shared the video on Facebook and YouTube in hopes of getting sensible explanations. The result has been 300-plus comments, 600 shares and 1,500 reactions. The video was recorded around 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 7, he says.
“I spent a night at the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse shooting time lapse photos in order to create an upcoming video. While I was looking through my footage I realized there was something in the video that I could not explain,” he wrote on Facebook. “It’s much larger than your typical plane appears, and it’s moving way faster than clouds.”
3:08 minute video of UFO streaking over the Outer Banks of NC (Wes Snyder Photography)
3:16 minute video of ‘fleet’ of UFOs over North Carolina coast (‘Only Real UFOs’ YouTube)
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