NUFORC Sighting 166701

Occurred: 2022-01-23 23:21 Local
Reported: 2022-02-14 23:14 Pacific
Duration: A few minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Charlotte, NC, USA
Location details: I was in a plane descending into CLT airport above Charlotte, NC, unsure how many feet in the air.

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

Saw a floating disk with a light and aura out of my plane window.

My plane was descending into CLT airport when I saw it. The moon was a semicircle, so I knew it wasn't that. It was too high above the city to be a drone, and too low to be anything else. It wasn't flashing, and was stationary in the sky. It was disked shaped, had a primary yellow-toned light coming from it's center, and had a similarly yellow glowing aura surrounding it. I'm unsure if I'm the only one on the plane who saw this or not. We passed it quickly, and I was only able to get two photos. However, we turned back in it's direction and I couldn't see it anymore, as if it had disappeared. The second photo is a zoomed-in version of the first. In the third photo, I couldn't fix my shutter speed fast enough, so it's slightly blurred and fuzzy. The blue lights in the first photo are reflections of the interior lights of the plane and are not connected.

Posted 2022-03-04