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Old 29th Dec 2022, 14:42
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JG1
 
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Flying from Canada to Europe on 28th, at 0530 UTC for about an hour, some strange lights were visible. They moved relative to each other, sometimes quite fast, and occasionally became really bright, almost as if they were aircraft within 5nm with LED landing lights. Perhaps brighter. Our heading was 094, alt F320, between 40w and 30w. They didn't seem to move any higher above the horizon than when we first saw them. I'll post some sequential photos, you'll have to view them in the dark but they're quite clear. The brightest (reddish) light on the right is another aircraft ahead of us. Area of interest is mid lower beneath the arc of stars, a group of 3 lights which form a changing shape triangle. In one photo you can also see how one of the lights seems to zoom up almost vertically whilst the other stars remain static. Photos taken about 7 seconds apart.

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