How to see deployed Starlink "Racetrack" flares

[NorCal Dave]

Just a positive note here. I noticed this post on the local Rants and Rave FB page. Just for background, this page usually has things like discussions about which Dollar store is better, or how to heat your home with a candle and ceramic bowl because it was on the internet. However, in this case someone posted what clearly looks like a Starlink train and to my surprise, almost all the comments said "Starlink"! A few people thought it might be the planetary alignment, as that was in the news, but most said it was Starlink. The only UFO/nefarious comments seemed to just be snarky jokes.

There's hope, at least with Starlink:

 

[Mick West]

However, in this case someone posted what clearly looks like a Starlink train and to my surprise, almost all the comments said "Starlink"! A few people thought it might be the planetary alignment, as that was in the news, but most said it was Starlink. The only UFO/nefarious comments seemed to just be snarky jokes.

That almost always happens with the trains. The general public has reached a kind of herd immunity where such misidentifications are identified almost immediately after posting.

Less so with the "racetrack" horizon flares, with only a small percentage of people familiar with them, you can get groups with no resistance at all, or just one or two replies in a longer thread that gets drowned out.

Unfortunately, I don't think it will change much with the flares, as it's kind of a difficult thing to see and record, and there's much greater variety in the visual interpretation.

 

[flarkey]

A nice Starlink flare video from New Zealand...


Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1jzq7yh/strange_lights_waikato_new_zealand/


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