Once when I was on an airplane in 2021, I saw a UFO out of the window. It was the strangest thing and I can't even fathom an explanation. I was sitting on the right side of the plane in the middle seat. There was an older lady to my left in our aisle seat who was rather tipsy and blathering on. I was half listening, half watching the blazing sunset through the window on the left side. You can't beat an airplane sunset. I saw something kind of far away, but I could tell it was around our altitude and my brain first registered it as a giant black hot air balloon. For a second that's simply what I thought it was, until I started thinking about how hot air balloons don't go up to 37,000 feet. Puzzled, I watched the object until I decided to say something to the lady next to me. I pointed out the window (there wasn't anyone in the left aisle, the plane was pretty sparse), and said to her "Excuse me, do you see that?" She drunkenly looked out the window and thought I meant the striking clouds in technicolor, "Yeah, yeah, pretty sunset, whatever..." and continued rambling about her daughter in college or something. I got up and scooted past her, sliding into the empty left row of seats and staring out the window at this thing. You could tell the object was huge, in the vague shape of a hot air balloon, but seemed at least ten times the size of one. It was hard to gauge the size because it was pretty far from the plane. The object started to rotate, and I watched what would have been the carriage part of the hot air balloon come up and around to be the top now, and it went back around again slowly. After making a complete rotation and beginning to go around for a second time, the object began to... morph? I guess. What happened was it began to spread into what looked like a black chemtrail. At this point I pulled out my shitty phone and started filming, although after a few seconds of looking at what was happening on my screen it seemed like the camera wasn't sharp enough to see anything, so I just kind of stopped trying to film it and watched the object with my naked eye, I didn’t want to miss whatever this was. I'm glad I did because I swear to God this chemtrail, in a very non-chemtrail fashion, reconsolidated back into itself and slowly became a blinking red light. Slow blinks. It stayed like that for about 15 or 20 seconds and then disappeared, I watched it fly very quickly directly away from me. Nothing left but the sunset. The whole thing took 3-4 minutes. I rewatched the video and you can kind of see the chemtrail if you know what you're looking for, so I know it really happened, I didn’t dream it or something. A screenshot from the video is posted her if anyone is interested, although it's nothing much to look at, unfortunately. You can see a dark smudge above the clouds at the halfway point in the middle, which is the chemtrail. Notably it was pitch black and if you watch the video you can see it moving across the sky, not stationary. I was hoping someone out there might be able to easily explain it away, or maybe at least someone has seen something similar. I'm really at a loss. Do I think it was aliens? Lol idk. It was some kind of crazy thing, that's for sure. submitted by /u/SpatPhillips1 [link] [comments]