Social media users are currently musing over an unusual video that appears to show numerous glow lights cruising above the South China Sea .

The 53 - second video ( below ) was take by a pilot film on the morning of November 24 at a height of close to 11,887 meters ( 39,000 foot ) above the South China Sea , as per the tracking websiteUFO Stalker . As the sun come up , the plastic film first shows nine lights go across the sky in three organized rows . The closemouthed object then disappears , before three more objects re-emerge on the outside of the formation .

“ I do n’t know what that is . That is some weird sh*t , ” a person is heard say in the video .

After the lights disappear one - by - one , they simply bestow : “ Gone ! ”

There ’s been no official statement yet on the sighting , but it ’s fired up the rumor mills on social media . While some are speculating that it could be some kind of military exercise demand flares or merely a reflection on the cockpit ’s meth , others are suggest it could be an extraterrestrial unidentified flying objective ( UFO ) .

“ At first I thought cockpit methamphetamine hydrochloride reflection … but no , ” one persontweeted . “ It ’s not ordered with that . Now I ’m thinking , could it have been a military countermeasure practice session ? ”

“ Considering that there are billions of Galaxies which check millions of stars and planet , ” anotheradded , “ it only stands to reason that there are others out there less intelligent than human beings ( which does n’t take much ) and way more thinking than us . ”

One of the most democratic explanations behind UFOs is that they are observational military engineering . The South China Sea has gained a huge geopolitical significance , not least because a huge share of the domain ’s nautical shipping pass through it . give that the sphere has of late see a sort ofterritory disputes , it would n’t be too surprising to see a military presence in the arena . That said , even US dominance have go to take reports of UFOs seriously . Recent year have seena number of high - profile sighting pucker significantmedia attentionand evenconfirmationby the Pentagon .

Earlier this class , another flakey sighting wasrecordedabove the Chinese metropolis of Shanghai by multiple witnesses . A Youtuber correct out to investigate this eery spate and come to the close that the " UFO " was , in fact , just the shadow of a building projected onto the city ’s clouds .