Problem is that bioluminescence is mostly blue and green and is by far not as bright as the lights we saw. Massive groups of plankton are known to emit light. Also, the position so far out in the Pacific does not make sense. Does not explain the red color and the size of the individual lights. Hinting towards a possibly military source of the lights.Ĭould explain the overall size of the group of lights and the stability of them. In 2015, Discovery Channel featured this sighting and photos in their show 'Nasa's Unexplained Files', I was overwhelmed by the amount of attention these photos got, and now a few years later, without definite answers. ![]() The seven days after the sighting, I spent giving telephone interviews, answering literally hundreds of emails and even got invited onto a famous Dutch TV show who unfortunately couldn’t wait until I was home. From China to Russia, from the USA to the UK and everywhere in between. They went all over the world on numerous websites, newspapers and blogs. The photos I took of this strange phenomenon were picked up by a few journalists and went viral within thirty-six hours of taking them. We immediately reported our observations to Air Traffic Control, but they also confirmed the next flight over that area was not expected until at least four hours later, by which time the sun would be already above the horizon. There was also no other traffic near our position or on the same routing to confirm anything of what we saw or confirm any type of ash clouds encountered. Fortunately, we did not encounter anything like this, but together with the very creepy unexplainable deep red/orange glow from the ocean’s surface we felt everything but comfortable. The nearest diversion airport was at least 3 hours flying away this was not the place and time to run into trouble like losing all engines due to ash. Since flying into an ash cloud is the biggest threat to an aeroplane, we immediately focused on this danger and made sure we stayed out of all possible clouds that we might encounter. In a part of the world where there was supposed to be nothing but water.Īt that moment in time, with a lot of worldwide seismic activity going on that night, it did not seem illogical to us that we were witnessing a massive eruption of an (underwater?) volcano. The closer we got, the more intense the glow became, illuminating the clouds and sky below us in a scary orange glow that you would expect with a massive fire on the ground. The lights we saw were much larger in size than your average city or group of boats, but they also glowed red and orange, instead of the normal yellow and white that cities or ships would produce. They initially appeared as a distant city or group of typical Asian squid fishing boats, but this did not make sense in this area. There was supposed to be nothing but endless ocean below for hundreds of miles around us. While my meal was warming in the oven, we dimmed the lights in the cockpit and I decided to try and take some pictures of the night sky and the so called ‘earth glow’ green faint glow that was visible all over the Northern Hemisphere.Ībout 20 minutes later, I noticed a deep red/orange glow appearing ahead of us, and this was confirmed when I looked at preview of the photos on the back of my camera. Of course, we did not know that at the time and did not give it much thought, until much later that night. As later confirmed by two independent lighting-observatories, there was no electro-magnetic activity (lightning strikes) for two hours before and after the time of the sighting, in a radius of at least 1000 kilometres. And strangely enough, it was just one single flash, and we did not see any other flashes afterwards, which would be expected with a thunderstorm. ![]() I have seen countless thunderstorms, shootings stars, lightning bolts and stars but never a flash like this. ![]() It looked like a lightning bolt in a faraway thunderstorm, but a lot more intense and of a much shorter duration, as though something had exploded. Suddenly, a long way off in the distance ahead, an intense light flash shot up from the ground, just at or beyond the horizon. With three active and soon-to-erupt volcanoes along our route in Kamchatka and Alaska, we figured that we could encounter one of the deeply feared ash-clouds if any of these would erupt. But with our basic geographical knowledge, we knew that a lot of tectonic activity in the Earth’s crust could have a cascade effect around the world. Our flight was not expected to be affected by any of these events. Inquiries with our company Operations Centre confirmed two nearly simultaneous massive earthquakes in San Francisco and Chile, and a large volcanic eruption in Iceland.
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