A pilot with 27 years of experience says he’s seen the same lights over Brussels six or seven times, and his plane has never gotten closer to them

A veteran commercial airline captain has captured footage of mysterious lights moving in ways he cannot explain while flying over Brussels. Steve Frazer, a 48-year-old pilot from Cheshire, England, has spent 27 years in the cockpit, but these recent encounters have left him puzzled.

As reported by Unilad, the sightings began in 2022 when Frazer noticed what looked like an aircraft orbiting over land. Since that initial event, he claims to have spotted the same flashing lights six or seven times. His most recent observation occurred in October 2026. The footage he recorded shows small orbs of light darting across the sky before they vanish.

Frazer is not alone in these observations. He noted that a colleague also saw the lights while returning from a flight in Lithuania. According to Frazer, they witnessed the lights in the same space and roughly the same direction. 

He says he just can’t figure out what they are

He initially assumed he was looking at a military refueling aircraft. However, the speed and movement of the objects did not align with his professional experience. He even attempted to fly toward the lights for a long time, but his plane never reached them.

“I saw these lights when I was working and another colleague saw the lights coming back from Lithuania,” Frazer said. “We saw them in the same space and roughly the same direction but it was ever so strange.”

The pilot noted that these objects seem to head in a north-westerly direction. He recalled that the sightings often occur as Brussels comes into view during flights back toward the United Kingdom. He believes the objects are coming over the Atlantic.

“I’ve been flying 27 years commercially and it doesn’t fit with anything I’ve seen previously,” the pilot said. “Technically in a sense it’s an unidentified object that seems to be flying.”

Frazer has tried to identify the lights through his own research. He is familiar with common sights in the sky, including satellite constellations like Starlink, but he insists these objects behave differently. He explained that he knows what satellites normally look like and that these lights do not fit with that movement.

Despite his extensive background in aviation, he says he just “can’t figure it out”. He has looked into reports from other people and believes his experiences match what other pilots have described.

“I just thought it was a military refuelling aircraft but the way it was moving and speed, it didn’t make any sense,” Frazer noted. “It seems to fit with what other pilots have commented on when they’ve seen them.”