What amazes me is how easily amazed people are. The pilots reported a “blinding light.” In other words, they did not see any sort of craft–just a
light. And from that very small bit of information people are already invoking aliens. As a sighting this is nearly rock bottom. It doesn’t even fall
into the “daylight disk” category, which is only above a “nocturnal light” in the Hynek classification scheme. Here’s the scale:

Nocturnal Light

Daylight disk

Radar Visual

Close Encounters – First Kind: Seemingly 500 feet or less with detail

Close Encounters – Second Kind: Physical effects

Close Encounters – Third kind: Animated creature

Wake me when you get to Close Encounters of the First kind and, you know, take a picture. These kinds of sightings of “lights” provide little, if any
useful information. Speculating that a “blinding light” means “aliens from space” is just laughable.