Around 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 8, 2026, Charlie Correa stepped outside his home in Corona, Queens, and looked up at what he thought was a shooting star. Then, he wrote, two more joined it. His 18-second video shows three glowing orbs in a loose triangle, weaving around one another and moving in a way that viewers said didn’t look like ordinary aircraft. Correa said they looked to be chasing each other. At one point one of them pulls ahead and the other two drop out of view.

He posted the clip to Reddit’s r/UFOs, and after the New York Post picked it up on March 13, it spread worldwide.

Correa lives about a mile south of LaGuardia Airport, and commenters suggested planes on approach. He rejected that. He also said he owns a drone, which shows a green or red blinking light or no lights while recording, and wondered aloud about government drones. Other commenters suggested birds lit from below, and some said they had seen similar lights over their own neighborhoods.

The FAA declined to comment on the footage. It said it documents unidentified aerial phenomena when a pilot reports one to air traffic control and shares sightings backed by radar data with the government’s UAP office. No pilot report tied to this sighting has surfaced.