Light over Hutchinson, MN
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Hovering aircraft
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2011-01-09 → 2011-01-26
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May 25, 2019 · 1:30 AM · FORMATION
Hutchinson, MN
We saw a string of lights moving. the leading part had many lights and then more down farther spread out . all moving along like a string. never changing distances between lights. the lights appeared to be high up and looked just like stars in size and illumination. made no sound traveled west to east til out of sight. we are still amazed and wish we could talk to someone about it. Tried to get pic of it but smart phone wouldn’t pick it up too dark wish i had a shot.
July 22, 2017 · 10:45 PM · SPHERE
Hutchinson, MN
Bright red sphere that was about 45 degrees above the horizon, southwest of Hutchinson. The light was a intense, super bright and vibrant red. This lasted about two minutes and just disappeared. It was not aircraft navigation lights and the closest aircraft in that direction according to flight radar was about 100 miles away, so no possibility of being that.
October 22, 2016 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Hutchinson, MN
Seen 3 bright light in the north moving to the west in a triangl pattern. It last about 30 to 45 seconds the they desapeared one light at a time about a half second apart from each other.
July 30, 2016 · 1:20 AM · FLASH
Hutchinson, MN
In the wee hours of the morning of last Saturday (July 30, 2016), while out stargazing, I saw something odd which I am unable to explain. 1. The object was traveling with a bearing of about 5-20° east of straight south. 2. The object flew nearly straight overhead, somewhat near the star Vega, sometime between 1:10-1:30AM local time (6:10-6:30AM GMT). I was stargazing at the latitude and longitude 44.795614 N, 94.377516 W (https://goo.gl/maps/FB4yDsR8GYv). 3. The object was moving at a speed similar to an airplane. 4. The object's light blinked 3-4 times, but at a seemingly lower frequency than a typical airplane. Also, while planes typically have a very short duration flash, this object had much longer flashes (1-2 seconds, probably), with the light being lit for about the same proportion of time as it was unlit. 5. I did not hear any propeller sounds, indicating that either that the object was relatively far away or that this was not a plane/helicopter. 6. The light also seemed brighter than a typical airplane's light, although I can't be entirely sure. It was certainly brighter than every star in the sky. 7. After the 3-4 blinks, there were no more blinks (and this is on a wonderfully clear night; it's not possible that it was obscured by clouds, as I could still see the stars along the path it was flying) From all this information, I am able to deduce that it was not a satellite, as satellites don't blink like this. It is presumably not a typical commercial or private flight, even though there is a small airport roughly 4.5 miles north of where I was, because the lights stopped blinking, and that is presumably prohibited in nighttime flights. I have not heard of any plane crashes nearby, which I expect I would have, had this been a plane that went down in flight.
July 25, 2014 · 10:20 PM · UNKNOWN
Hutchinson, MN
On Friday, July 25, 2014, at 1020 pm local time (Central time zone), in Minnesota, I was walking home with my digital camera. I was shooting wildlife pictures earlier when there was light, but when it got to dark, I just put the lens cap on and turn off the camera. I then went for a 4 mile walk. About a block from my house, I looked up in the pitch black sky and saw a strange orange light – sort of like an “orange moon” color when the moon is low on the horizon. This was just a very small sliver of orange light, so I was thinking it must be a slice of the moon low on the horizon. As I watched this light, it was approaching me, and now it looked like an object that was on fire flying though the air. I was thinking this was an airplane on fire and would be falling to the ground. This orange light was bright, it looked like a campfire type of orange – like it was on fire. I suddenly realized I had my camera with me and by the time I got the lens cap off, camera, turn on the object was directly overhead. I had the camera in full auto mode, so my first shots the flash was on and the auto-focus could not operate properly due to low light – the shutter stayed open because it was expecting the flash to expose the object – so the first shots were just light moving while shutter open. I quickly switched modes on the camera. The object appeared to about 2,000 feet high about the level that helicopter fly at, but it could have just appeared to low elevation due the brightness of the light. This object made no sound – it was completely silent. I snapped off several photos of this object as it was now moving away from me. Its speed appeared to be that of a rescue helicopters (flight for life) that often fly over during the night – my guess about 200 to 300 mph. It was out of range in about 15 seconds. I snapped off 17 photos, but all you can see is the orange light in a pitch black sky. These are 18 mega pixel photos so they can be blow ! up to view better. However, the actual object size, shape, etc. cannot be determined – I am assuming that this orange light was some sort of engine or propulsion system. It was traveling Northeast about 90% north and 10% east coming from the Southwest in a straight line. There was nothing fancy – no sudden movements or exotic speeds – straight line flight about 300 mph. Years ago, I was in the Air Force and stationed at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas. The “Top Gun” school for the Air Force is station their and it is called Red Flag. When Red Flag is going you can watch all sorts of aircraft taking off and flying at night. I know what afterburners look like and what jet engines look like. I also know what aircraft landing lights look like as well as the other light on the planes wings. Stealth aircraft do not have engine exhaust that is visible from the ground. The orange light did not look like anything I had ever seen before. I have no idea what it was – might be a perfectly simple explanation, but for now that flying object is unidentified.
December 27, 2013 · 7:40 PM · DIAMOND
Hutchinson, MN
Slow moving diamond shaped flame.