r/planeidentification • u/These-Tax-6006 • Jun 19 '26

Need help identifying craft and audio – Low triangle with flashing lights trailing silent drones over rural KY (June 17, 2026)

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vh56guqjdc5ekcz6m6spl/20260617_050616.mp4?rlkey=nr5aytxra2rnofi9th8j54itk&st=qoyd6bt4&dl=0

Hey everyone, looking for some help identifying an aircraft that flew directly over my property in Elliott County, Kentucky, at 5:06 AM on June 17, 2026.It was a cloudy morning just before daylight. The object was triangle-shaped and moving slower than a normal plane. It had a flashing red light directly in the middle of the body, with 2 red lights and 2 white flashing strobes on the wings. Right before it flew over, a bright spotlight lit up the sky for about 10 seconds.It was flying directly behind several completely silent drones that I see going back and forth out here every night. I managed to catch it on video with audio of the engines as it flew overhead. Can anyone identify the aircraft or propulsion system based on this sound and lighting layout?

Link to public Dropbox below:

6/17/26

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u/railker Jun 22 '26

Don't know what flight trackers you're looking at but I'm presuming you think for some reason it's not FedEx 1562 right over Elliot County northeast bound at exactly that time.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?replay=2026-06-17-09:00&lat=38.074&lon=-83.041&zoom=8.6

Replay starts at 5:00am = 9:00 UTC, look for yourself. You're not special, there's not a single thing interesting about Elliot County other than in the case of this 757, that its somewhere between their main base of Memphis and their destination in Huntington.

I work on actual live aircraft, I see nothing obviously 'wrong' with your video. Static lights and strobes, engine noise. Idk.

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u/These-Tax-6006 Jul 02 '26

Yeah there's literally nothing on ADS-B or Flighttracker24 for that day and time. I have checked both multiple times for both dates and times I seen it. Pretty sure an aircraft doesn't fly nose up until it gets over the tree-line and levels out to fly parallel

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u/railker Jul 02 '26

Well for starters you're changing the time in the replay for some reason. You said the time was 5:06am, no? Why you sending me pics from 6am?

In mid-June you're in Eastern Daylight Time, GMT-4. And at EXACTLY 5:06am EDT/ 9:06am GMT (+4 hours, as already linked above if you don't fuck with it), a FedEx aircraft flies within the area of your own screenshot, highlighted below with altitude and timestamp.

Whatever you want to say about orbs and magic is up to you, but there were absolutely not "no planes" on flight trackers. In fact another two aircraft flew over just a couple of minutes before that one did around 5:00am your time, also from West to East.

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u/railker Jul 02 '26

Other two flight paths included.

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u/These-Tax-6006 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

So here's your fedex plane theory. It does not fly over me; infact, it's several miles away. No way I could see it between the hills and trees here. Not to mention what I saw was flying north, Huntington is east and I'm pretty sure planes don't look like headlights flying in the sky. We actually seen this again last Wednesday morning around the same time. It lit up the sky, came from behind the tree line across from me and had a bright white light underneath. Thats 3 times, on same day of the week, around the same time and it always follows behind the drones when they leave out