At about 9 p.m. on July 13, 2026, the crew of a twin-engine King Air C90 flying from São Paulo to Maringá radioed Londrina Approach about unidentified lights in the sky. That is the account in a Reddit post that shared what it described as an unedited LiveATC recording of the exchange, with only silent gaps removed.

According to the post, the Londrina control tower said it could see the lights as well, roughly 20 nautical miles west of the airport. The person who posted the clip said no identification was made on the frequency.

The details come from that single post. It does not quote the pilots or the controllers word for word, and no video of the lights was shared. A commenter identified the aircraft as PR-OTE from a Flightradar24 playback and said it was flying west at the time.

The same commenter offered the most ordinary explanation: Venus would have been low in the western sky that evening, and Starlink satellites can produce bright flares around dusk. They also said the crew themselves had wondered whether the lights were a planet or a star. Those points are a suggestion from a reader, not a finding.

Brazil’s air force does collect UAP reports from pilots and controllers, but no official record of this one has been published.