Captain Steve Frazer's flashing lights near Brussels (2022-2026)
Steve Frazer, an airline captain from Sandbach in Cheshire, says he has seen the same flashing lights over land near Brussels six or seven times since 2022, most recently in October 2026, always on flights heading north-west back to the UK. He first took them for a military refuelling aircraft but says their movement and speed made no sense, and he rules out Starlink. His time-lapse video shows small orbs that seem to rise from the ground and dart about. An unnamed colleague and an unnamed pilot on the radio are said to have seen them too. The story came through a paid-story agency and SWNS; no cause has been proposed and there is no official record.
How plausible · Moderate
A named airline captain describes recurring flashing lights near Brussels and has a time-lapse video, but the story comes only through a paid-story agency and a wire service, his co-witnesses are unnamed, and his flights have not been checked against satellite passes or tanker tracks.
- ●●Access He saw the lights himself from the flight deck and filmed them.
- ●○Cost of speaking A serving airline captain putting his name to this risks his reputation.
- ●○Character record Named captain with about 27 years of commercial flying, as the article gives it; not otherwise checked.
- ●○Consistent over time Same area and heading across six or seven flights, as he tells it; one telling only.
- ●○Restraint He considered a tanker and Starlink before discounting them and makes no claim about origin in the article.
- ●○Checkable details check out Flight logs, the video files and Belgian air traffic or safety reports could all be checked; nothing released.
Plausibility weighs how well an account fits where secrecy hides the documents by design, so missing records never count against it. Strength measures what is documented. Assessed 2026-11-08.