antiwesley
New Member
My girls and I were coming into the house, and I looked up just to see if I could see any sateliites passing over.
I then saw the weirdest thing in my 40+ years of looking up to begin with.
An object was flying over at a decent clip, but it was projecting two lines ahead it that stretched out about 5 degrees.
I tried to take a picture, but the stupid flash was turned on.
The beams started gradually fading as the object moved away, and eventually was gone.
I checked Heavens Above immediately, and there was nothing scheduled, so I ruled out a satellite.
The Starlink G4-14 Placeholder listed was in the approximate area, but it couldn't explain the beams moving with the object staying at the 5 degrees in front of the object.
I came in the house, pulled up Flightradar 24, and saw this culprit:
As you can see, it was pretty high up, going at a fair clip, and almost heading in the right direction from my POV. I saw it heading more at a bearing of 105, rather the 075 bearing it shows.
I've lived where I saw it for over 40 years, so I'm pretty good at directions, so I can't point at anything else and say "It was this!"
I expect that there was some high level clouds, and it had it's headlights on, so I saw the focused beams as lines rather than a cone.
I had just never seen anything like it before in the 40+ years I've been out there looking up.
I then saw the weirdest thing in my 40+ years of looking up to begin with.
An object was flying over at a decent clip, but it was projecting two lines ahead it that stretched out about 5 degrees.
I tried to take a picture, but the stupid flash was turned on.
The beams started gradually fading as the object moved away, and eventually was gone.
I checked Heavens Above immediately, and there was nothing scheduled, so I ruled out a satellite.
The Starlink G4-14 Placeholder listed was in the approximate area, but it couldn't explain the beams moving with the object staying at the 5 degrees in front of the object.
I came in the house, pulled up Flightradar 24, and saw this culprit:
As you can see, it was pretty high up, going at a fair clip, and almost heading in the right direction from my POV. I saw it heading more at a bearing of 105, rather the 075 bearing it shows.
I've lived where I saw it for over 40 years, so I'm pretty good at directions, so I can't point at anything else and say "It was this!"
I expect that there was some high level clouds, and it had it's headlights on, so I saw the focused beams as lines rather than a cone.
I had just never seen anything like it before in the 40+ years I've been out there looking up.
