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2024 · Narsarsuaq, South Greenland

Greenland: the Narsarsuaq lights

On the record
Strength C · 6/10 · 3 independent
Evidence 2/4 · Witnesses 2/3 · Backing 2/3

A named civilian filmed the lights and gathered reports from pilots and controllers, though those come to us secondhand and no official record is out.

Plausibility Moderate
Score 8 · 8 factors for, 0 against

A named lawyer filmed lights repeatedly and collects reports from pilots and controllers; the pilot accounts reach us secondhand and footage was lost, but locals describe the lights as long-standing.

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Natural cause proposed, not demonstrated
When2020s
WhereNarsarsuaq, South Greenland
Backing3 independent
Witnesses3 named

Danish lawyer Martin Kleist and a documentary team filmed lights rising from behind the mountains at Narsarsuaq, a town of about 120 by Greenland's southern airport, and collected reports from pilots, controllers and locals. The footage aired as a NewsNation exclusive on Reality Check. The documentary's working title is 'Den der ligner en tallerken' ('The one that looks like a plate').

Evidence, in date order (3)

  1. Helicopter pilot and a colleaguewitness
    an oval luminous object at a cloud edge during a landing Sermitsiaq: Martin's hunt for UFOs in South Greenland
  2. Local pilots, air traffic controllers and flight mechanicswitness
    report cone-shaped craft with coloured lights near town Sermitsiaq: Martin's hunt for UFOs in South Greenland
  3. Narsarsuaq localswitness
    say they have seen the lights for a long time Sermitsiaq: Martin's hunt for UFOs in South Greenland

How plausible · Moderate

A named lawyer filmed lights repeatedly and collects reports from pilots and controllers; the pilot accounts reach us secondhand and footage was lost, but locals describe the lights as long-standing.

  • ●○
    Access He filmed it himself; pilots' accounts are relayed.
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    Cost of speaking Named lawyer on national TV.
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    No gain sought A documentary in progress.
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    Consistent over time Several evenings; locals say for years.
  • ●○
    Character record Practising lawyer.
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    Independent convergence Pilots, controllers and locals by his account.

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 2026-10-23.

On the record

  • Kvanefjeld, a rare-earth and uranium deposit about 30 km away, was blocked by Greenland's 2021 Uranium Act; Energy Transition Minerals claimed about 15 billion DKK in arbitration (the 11 billion said on air is too high).
  • Summit Station on the ice cap is NSF-funded and run by Battelle Arctic Research Operations.
  • Thule (Pituffik since 2023): H.C. Hansen's 1957 tacit approval of nuclear weapons there came out in 1995; the 21 January 1968 B-52 crash carried four H-bombs and one was never recovered (BBC, 2008).Malmstrom
  • Camp Century's reactor was removed but its waste was left in the ice. JD Vance visited Pituffik in March 2025.

Claims

Lights rise from behind the mountain and ice cap on several evenings, meet, circle, make taxiing-like moves and shoot off.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedMartin Kleist, with Lasse Rabek and a cameraman
Flashes like a flash bulb come before each orb, sometimes on request (heard on audio, not on film).firsthandSourced, unconfirmedMartin Kleist and companions
He saw an object briefly in daylight.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedMartin Kleist
An oval luminous object sat at a cloud edge during a helicopter landing, and a colleague saw it too.secondhandSourced, unconfirmedMartin Kleist
Pilots, air traffic controllers and flight mechanics see them daily; cone-shaped craft with green, red and orange lights underneath circle near town.secondhandSourced, unconfirmedMartin Kleist
'We have been seeing these lights forever.'secondhandSourced, unconfirmedMartin Kleist

Where

Narsarsuaq, South Greenland
61.2°N 45.4°W
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