Airline Pilots Record Footage of Multiple UFOs During Flight

A still image of one of the mysterious lights featured in the video posted by Captain Ruud Van Pangemanan. *(Captain Ruud Van Pangemanan / YouTube)*

Captain Ruud Van Pangemanan posted a video to his YouTube channel earlier this month that features footage of several UFOs recorded while flying a Boeing 747 between Nigeria and Saudi Arabia.

The video shows a series of bright white lights that fade in and out of view (beginning at around 20:55). At one point, two lights can be seen together.

According to Captain Ruud, as he refers to himself on his YouTube channel, the lights were seen 30 minutes into the flight. He and his co-pilot can be heard discussing the lights, referring to them as “very bright” and noting that they are “moving freely” in the sky.

Captain Ruud, who works for Nigerian airline Max Air and has 32 years of flying experience, came away convinced that the lights were something anomalous.

“Guys, this is not a joke,” he said in the video, “or a picture that was made, but this is my experience of seeing something strange. A UFO anomaly or unidentified flying object. What we saw is still a mystery. What was it [we saw] in the sky dancing?”

Ultimately, he felt confident in ruling out the easily available prosaic explanations.

“Before that, we thought the light was a plane, but it wasn’t on our radar,” Captain Ruud said. “Then we thought maybe it was a star, but the stars twinkled quickly, and the stars didn’t move, while the UFO light shone for a long time and moved. Then we also thought of the possibility that the light was a satellite, because right now there are a lot of Starlink satellites that have been launched by Elon Musk. But it’s impossible for a satellite to move like that, because the light of the UFO in front of us moves freely; sometimes forward, sometimes backward, sometimes left, right, or vice versa. And they can light up four at the same time by moving to create formation.”

Nor did he think the UFOs could have been drones, since “drones also have to use radar” and wouldn’t have been so bright.

After that, Captain Ruud was left with a mystery, although he did not feel that the lights were dangerous, whatever they were.

“But outside, they don’t bother us,” he said. “Instead, they seem to entertain us, dancing. Making us awake when we are sleepy. And sometimes they also flash a light as if they want to give a message. But what message? We really don’t understand. Sometimes, I think, is it possible for this creature to go to perform Hajj (an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca), too, just like Allah’s other servants in this Hajj season? Or are they protecting us, who are bringing thousands of pilgrims from Africa? But it’s all just my feeling, nothing more.”