Kacey Musgraves - UFOs Followed Our Plane ...

[flarkey]

N440JA flew Dallas to Nashville Landed around UTC: 05:11:40 2026-04-10

N440JA flew exactly the same route (less departure & approach) between the DFW and Nashville but was about 1h50m behind AA2979. Both would have had Starlink flares visible on their port side for the duration of their flights.

 

[Mick West]

I found the ground lights in one video:
https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=1/KM Ground/20260413_170859.js

It could be either plane, and there's a range of points along the tracks that will look similar, but it narrows things down.

 

[Mick West]

It could be either plane, and there's a range of points along the tracks that will look similar, but it narrows things down.

I think does narrow it down to the second plane, N44OJA (or similar time). As the starlinks are too far to the East for the AA.

With this one, I set a target to keep that town (Jonesboro) in view, and you can scrub through to see how things (the three stars, the city lights, the starlinks) all line up.

https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=1/KM with target/20260413_172430.js

 

[Mick West]

Lining up the city lights on a video a couple of minutes after that one:

https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=1/KM with target/20260413_172430.js

Some reasonable matches. I am getting a lot more flares in the sim. I'd really like to get some good ground-truth videos I can calibrate this against. I suspect a few things. Possibly this is just us not having the correct flight, but also the exact angle of the satellite isn't guaranteed, and not all of them seem to flare as much, or for as long. We've seen similar before, where you have to pick the satellites out of a larger set, and the flare durations don't match - even though the geometry is perfect.