Blinking Lights Above Los Angeles on January 1st

Blinking Lights Above Los Angeles on January 1st
**Time:** January 1, 2025, around 12:50 PM PST  
**Location:** Echo Park, Los Angeles, California

https://reddit.com/link/1ijctio/video/jm8d2yj4wkhe1/player

I was walking home with a coffee in hand, passing through an alley behind my apartment, when I noticed a large flock of birds circling above my apartment building. As I looked up to check them out, I immediately saw three *very* bright lights high above them, just hanging there in the sky.

As soon as I spotted the lights, the birds scattered.

The lights didn’t make any sense. They were in sort of a triangle formation and moving slowly but definitely weren’t helicopters or airplanes. All three were blinking—very noticeably.

After watching for a while, I headed inside, grabbed my binoculars, and went back out. Through the binoculars, it seemed like they had some sort of shape, sorta pointy. My first thought was something shaped like the *lunar lander*—bright, shiny, and with angles and points.

I was trying to see if maybe they were objects that were rotating and reflecting the sun's light as they did so, but through the binoculars the blinking was even more intense. It was a distinct *ON / OFF / ON / OFF* like a blinker. And extremely bright.

I watched for maybe five minutes? Mostly with my naked eye or through binoculars. At some point, I decided to try filming, but because of the bright daylight, I couldn’t see my phone screen at all—so I had no idea if I was actually capturing anything. I just pointed the camera in the general direction and hoped for the best.

These lights continued to move around slowly. Eventually, two of them started to move away while one remained, and I just stopped watching and went inside.

I checked flight trackers and didn’t see any activity in the area, but maybe I converted to UTC incorrectly? Still, they obviously weren't planes or helicopters. I had no idea what I was looking at.