Case file · Sighting
The Greifswald lights
On 24 August 1990, holidaymakers on the Baltic coast near Greifswald filmed a formation of seven bright lights hanging in the evening sky, then a second group.
1990 CE · 54.14, 13.66 · status: explained
The account
The videos were broadcast widely and became Germany's most famous UFO film, appearing in TV documentaries in the 1990s.
The sceptical view
Researchers linked the lights to flares dropped during a military exercise over the Baltic; the slow drift and fading match parachute flares.