Hall of fame: the best wrong guesses (add yours)

A running list of things that were reported as something else. Add your own below; no names, just the story.

- A "fleet of silent craft in perfect formation" that was a Starlink train. Weekly.
- A "hovering craft with a searchlight" that was a police helicopter with a searchlight.
- A "mothership" that was the Moon rising through haze. Orange, huge, did not move. Classic.
- An "orb that followed me home" that was Venus.
- A "triangle of lights" that was three aircraft in a landing queue at the same altitude.
- A "glowing portal opening over the ocean" that was a Falcon 9 second stage at twilight.
- An "object that shot straight up and vanished" that was a bird lit by a stadium.
- A "swarm of drones" that was a flock of gulls over a parking lot at night.
- A "plasma entity" in a photo that was the photographer's own breath in the flash.

The site is not here to laugh at witnesses; every one of these was a reasonable reaction to a strange sight. We laugh at the sky.