Argentine pilot says dancing lights accompanied his plane for 35 minutes
Pilot Gaspar Gouane told the Argentine newspaper El Tribuno that lights accompanied his plane during a night flight between Salta and Buenos Aires, and that in his view their behavior did not resemble anything known. At present, however, the story rests on a single source, without many details.
Gaspar Gouane was on a night flight between Salta and Buenos Aires when he noticed lights appearing near his plane, and, as he put it, they began to "dance." The phenomenon lasted 35 minutes before it disappeared. The pilot told the story to the Argentine newspaper El Tribuno, and the account was translated into English and published on September 22 by Inexplicata, a blog that covers UFO topics.
According to Gouane, the behavior of the lights ruled out some obvious explanations. He says they did not resemble satellites, airplanes, shooting stars, or even the characteristic single-file train of Starlink satellites. The account published so far does not detail exactly what movement, change in speed or change in light led him to this conclusion.
What do we know, and what don't we?
What we know for certain: a pilot told an Argentine newspaper that lights accompanied his plane on a night flight between Salta and Buenos Aires, and that this lasted 35 minutes. We also know that, according to Gouane, the lights did not behave like familiar objects in the sky. What we don't know: what specific movement pattern he saw, whether there was any footage, photo or instrument data of the event, and whether air traffic control or any other air traffic participant responded to the sighting. The account available so far rests on a single source, the pilot's own telling, without independent confirmation.
If the phenomenon really was as Gouane described it, the question is why no images or other witnesses have surfaced so far. Until that happens, the story remains in the category of eyewitness accounts, not among confirmed cases.
The sober take
During night flights, pilots often mistake satellites, Starlink trains or the lights of other aircraft for phenomena with unusual movement; although Gouane ruled these out, the account does not make clear on the basis of what specific observation he did so, and no independent data (footage, radar return) is available to verify it.