(Newswire.net — October 2, 2015) — It is not uncommon that airline pilots report unidentified flying objects. However, an unidentified orange light beneath the ocean surface is something new.
Pilots of a Boeing 747-800 flying from Hong Kong to Anchorage, Alaska , were baffled by strange orange and red lights that apeared to be beneath the Ocean surface south of the Russian peninsula Kamchatka, the Daily Mirror reported.
The Dutch pilot took some magnificent photos of the event, explaining it might be a submarine volcano eruption. He said he saw something like a lightning strike before the lights occurred. The weather was clear with no stormy clouds, perfect for a smooth flight, captain van Heijst said.
At the moment, the pilot was concerned that the erupting volcano could disperse a huge amount of dust in the air that might affect the flight even at higher altitudes.
“Last night over the Pacific Ocean, somewhere South of the Russian peninsula Kamchatka I experienced the creepiest thing so far in my flying career,’ he said. “There were no thunderstorms on their route or weather-radar, suggesting the lightning did not originate in a storm.”
The swarm of dozens of fishing boats could cast a similar light, however, van Heijst says this ‘would not make sense in this area’.
“The closer we got, the more intense the glow became, illuminating the clouds and sky below us in a scary orange glow, in a part of the world where there was supposed to be nothing but water,’ he continued.
“The only cause of this red glow that we could think of, was the explosion of a huge volcano just underneath the surface of the ocean, about 30 minutes before we overflew that exact position.’
Preparing for the flights, pilots heard on the radio that an earthquake hit Iceland, Chile and San Francisco, however, they had had not been alerted to any new activity.
“We reported our observations to Air Traffic Control and an investigation into what happened in this remote region of the ocean is now started,’ van Heijst said.
“Now I’m just hoping that if a new island has been formed there [from the eruption], at least it can be named after me as the official discoverer. That would be pretty cool!” he added.