Green Lights Over Kolkata
On the night of 19 June 2026, someone on a rooftop in Kolkata pointed a phone at the hazy city sky and filmed a loose cluster of pale green points of light high overhead. The witness counted seven or eight at the peak, some holding still, some drifting, and posted the clip to Reddit's r/UFOs the same night with a time of about 10:20 pm and a note that friends had seen it too. The poster titled it as more shots, suggesting an earlier capture, and described the lights as extremely high and faintly green. Over a city where real stars are mostly washed out by light pollution, a small formation of green lights is the kind of fresh, local report this archive logs the day it appears.
What did witnesses see at Kolkata?
The footage, about twenty seconds of a longer sighting, shows a dark Kolkata skyline of rooftops, a telecom tower, and the orange glow of street lighting along the bottom of the frame. High in the sky above, several small greenish-white points sit in a loose, uneven group. They are faint and slightly out of focus, the way distant lights look when a phone struggles to hold them against a hazy night sky. The witness reported that the count rose to seven or eight, that some of the lights stayed put while others moved, and that the group was very high up.
What is the official explanation?
No official body has commented on the 19 June sighting. There is no statement from local police, the airport, or aviation authorities tied to this specific event, and no news outlet has reported it beyond the original social post. The case rests at present on the witness footage and the accompanying account.
It is worth the local context. Kolkata has seen earlier episodes of unexplained aerial lights and drone-like objects: in past years police in the city investigated drone-like objects over sensitive areas, and mysterious lights over parts of West Bengal have repeatedly drawn crowds and speculation. None of that explains the 19 June lights, but it places them in a city with a recent history of sky-watching reports.
What did the witnesses think it was?
The observer was a Kolkata resident filming from a rooftop, who said the sighting was shared with friends present at the time, which if accurate makes this a multiple-witness report rather than a solo one. The account is specific about time, location, count, and behavior, and modest about what it shows: the poster asked what the lights were rather than asserting an answer. No names are attached, and the corroborating witnesses are not independently identified, so the multiple-witness claim travels only as far as the poster's word.
Is the Green Lights Over Kolkata real? The two-pass assessment
Pass one, the mundane candidates, which a faint cluster of green lights over a large Indian city offers in abundance. Drones are the leading one: hobby and commercial drones carry bright LED navigation lights, often green, fly in loose groups, and hover and drift exactly as described, and Kolkata has a documented recent history of drone scares. A drone light display, increasingly common over Indian cities for events and festivals, would produce a coordinated formation of colored points. Aircraft on approach to the city's airport, satellites including a Starlink train passing in a line, and bright planets or stars smeared by haze and an unsteady phone all belong on the list. The greenish color and the soft focus both point toward ordinary lights seen badly rather than anything exotic.
Pass two, if the account is accurate as given. Seven or eight lights, some stationary while others move and break formation, is harder to pin on a single prosaic source than a simple line of satellites or one aircraft. If the lights genuinely held position and shifted independently over a span of minutes, that behavior is worth the record. But the footage is short, faint, and lacks any fixed reference to gauge distance, size, or speed, so it cannot carry more than the witness's word.
Verdict: Unknown. A fresh, multiple-witness report of a green light formation over Kolkata, most plausibly drones or a drone display given the city's recent history, but unconfirmed and unexplained on the available evidence. The case is logged now and will be updated if corroborating footage, a second vantage point, or a prosaic source surfaces.
Sources
- www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1uafhb6/more_ufo_shots_in_kolkata_19626/
- www.tribuneindia.com/news/india/drone-like-objects-spotted-over-kolkata-sky-police-probe-espionage-angle
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