How to see deployed Starlink "Racetrack" flares

[Ravi]

Good stuff @flarkey, thanks for the effort!

 

[flarkey]

@Mick West has written an article summarising the full Starlink-UAP saga.....

The Great Starlink Racetrack UFO Flap of 2022

In the late summer of 2022, a new flap began. Commercial airline pilots flying at night started seeing lights in the sky from inside their darkened cockpits. These were like nothing they had seen before. The lights seemed very far away, possibly in space, and the pilots described them as moving in “racetrack” patterns due to the way they brightened then dimmed like planes flying in a racetrack-shaped circuit with their landing lights on.

The pilots were adamant that what they were looking at were not satellites and, more specifically, that they were not Starlink satellites. They knew this because they had seen Starlink satellites, and this looked nothing like what they had seen.

The pilots were not entirely wrong. Starlink is a constellation of thousands of low-orbit satellites that are designed to provide internet connections to remote areas. The satellites are launched in groups of fifty or more, and the groups are deployed all at the same time. For a time, before they reach their final orbits, the satellites circle Earth in a “train” that, from the ground and illuminated by the sun, looks like a long string (or train) of bright lights (see Figure 2).

Full article: https://skepticalinquirer.org/2023/02/the-great-starlink-racetrack-ufo-flap-of-2022/

 

[Mick West]

@Mick West has written an article summarising the full Starlink-UAP saga.....

The Great Starlink Racetrack UFO Flap of 2022

Yeah, I actually wrote it early December. That's an issue with paper publications, long lead-times mean it's not always the most up-to-date take.