That viral "triangle over Glasgow" video – let's break it down properly

There's a video doing the rounds on Twitter and TikTok supposedly showing a massive triangular craft hovering over Glasgow on Tuesday evening. It's got about 200k views and obviously the comments section is insane - half saying it's military, half saying it's aliens, everyone arguing about nothing.

I've screenshotted a few frames and done some basic analysis. The video quality's decent - shot on what looks like a smartphone, probably an iPhone 12 or 13 given the colour rendering. The object has very defined edges, three lights at the vertices (white/amber), absolutely no visible means of propulsion or sound (witness says it was silent, though that's not reliable at night).

Here's what I'm seeing: The object's apparent size changes slightly through the video - could indicate movement toward or away from the camera, or could be atmospheric distortion. It's stationary or near-stationary for the full thirty-second clip. No visible exhaust, no obvious military markings, but also... these days that means nothing, right?

Anyone want to tear my analysis apart? I'm genuinely not sure if this is interesting or obvious and I'm just missing it.

The colour temperature of that object is interesting. It's slightly warmer than your typical helicopter searchlight. Military jets and choppers tend to run pure white HID lighting. This has a slight amber cast that suggests either tungsten bulbs (unlikely for something in the sky) or temperature distortion from the camera's white balance trying to compensate. Worth noting.

absolutely no visible means of propulsion

Mate, I hate to be that guy, but that's where your analysis breaks down. At night, from the ground, at what - probably 500-1000 metres up? - you wouldn't see engine details anyway. Could be a conventional aircraft photographed from a weird angle. Could be a balloon rig. Could be something genuinely unknown. But "no visible propulsion" isn't actually evidence of anything interesting.

The thing that gets me is the absolutely rigid formation of those three lights. No flickering, no rotation, perfect triangle. That's either something genuinely controlled and steady, or it's three separate objects flying in perfect formation, which would be... quite technically impressive if nothing else. But also maybe just three lights on a single rig that some bloke built in his garage for TikTok clout.

Glasgow's got the airport, military presence up at Prestwick, loads of commercial flight paths. Before we get excited, have we checked the ADS-B data for that evening? What was actually in the airspace? There's usually a boring explanation and it's usually in the boring data.

My take: it's either a hoax (80%), a conventional aircraft photographed in unusual circumstances (15%), or something genuinely anomalous (5%). The fact it's become viral means we'll probably never know because the signal's now completely buried under attention-seeking comments. Case closed by chaos, basically.