Summary
In November 2021, around 5:00 a.m. in the northeastern United States, an eyewitness filmed a bright light near the horizon, estimated about 2,000 feet away, that resolved from a single object into multiple lights moving erratically relative to one another while drifting slowly from left to right. The witness recorded the footage on a hand-held iPhone 12 Pro in a sparsely populated, familiar location, and the FBI assessed the reporter as highly credible.
Detail
Released through the PURSUE declassification, this video depicts a November 2021 sighting at approximately 0500 local time in the northeastern United States. An eyewitness observed a bright light source near the horizon, estimated at about 2,000 feet away, which first appeared as a single intense luminous object before resolving into multiple lights that exhibited erratic rotational motion relative to one another. The object moved slowly from left to right during the encounter.
The footage was captured with a hand-held iPhone 12 Pro, which introduced unintended camera movement, at a sparsely populated location well known to the witness. The description is derived from statements the eyewitness provided to the FBI, which assessed the individual as highly credible. This material corresponds to a cluster of related reports (FBI-UAP-D004 through D008 and FBI-UAP-PR001 through PR003) from the same general area in the northeastern United States.
