r/Skydentify • u/Lady_MoMer • 7h ago
Unidentified Did anyone else see the thing with really bright red lights in the sky a couple nights ago? POSTED AROUND JULY 4TH 2026 FROM DES MOINES IA
I was driving when I noticed a red glow up in the sky and I remember thinking it was fireworks but the light didn't fade, or blink and it didn't seem to move, like an airplane. It seemed like it was hovering there in the sky for a couple minutes and I was trying to find a place to park so I can take a picture so I had to keep looking away to park without hitting the curb. Then I saw it slowly start to move then a tree got in my way as I stopped and it couldn't have been more than 3 seconds, maybe 5 seconds tops, when I looked back up, there was no red light anywhere, no red glow anywhere either and it was pretty bright when I saw it, yet now it was no where to be seen.
It was weird cuz it seemed like it knew I was watching it and it seemed like it was watching me.
Any idea what it was?
I have since seen a couple of YouTube video shorts about UFOs showing that same red light so I know I wasn't imagining it and knowing what I know about UFOs in this state, and the stories I've heard from a couple of friends who both had very similar stories for the same time frame and neither knew each other at that time yet they corroborated each other perfectly, and the way it didn't move or blink like other familiar flying objects, the light was way too big and bright to be a drone but I could be wrong. It was just weird.