Why are Starlink "Racetrack" Flares [Mostly] Reported from Planes?

[jarlrmai]

This one looks like Starlink to me


Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1hbmbap/follow_up_to_my_last_post/

 

[jarlrmai]

Oh wait he's pilot as well, I assumed they were from the ground

 

[FatPhil]

This one looks like Starlink to me


Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1hbmbap/follow_up_to_my_last_post/

How is "I sped up, cropped and lightened the video to highlight the strangeness of this event." not "I did my best to make it look stranger than it actually was at the time"?

 

[flarkey]

Another YouTube video of starlink flares, believed to have been recorded on 18 December over the Atlantic...


Source: https://youtu.be/U1FWEVO0y8k?si=v3RcvbqDLIYLBtXM

 

[jdog]

There was a now-deleted post yesterday on
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1hmun8q/weirdest_thing_ive_ever_seen_in_close_to_20_years/
titled "Weirdest thing I've ever seen in close to 20 years of flying," though the responses are still there. A Cessna pilot describes seeing "a series of lights that would come and go, moving erratically" at night above the horizon for 40 minutes, but he couldn't resolve it with a camera. Many responses pointing out that it sounded precisely like Starlink, which the pilot vehemently denied, though no one used the term "flare," and some commenters insisted it couldn't be Starlink because those are always all in a line. So Flarkey's work continues to be cut out for him.

 

[flarkey]

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1hw7pcn/strange_lights_high_above_clouds/

First time poster but long time reader and believer. My buddy is a cargo pilot and we talk about UFOs all the time. Tonight he sent me this video of strange glowing orbs while he was flying. Seems like they go in and out. He mentioned this was somewhere between Columbus Ohio and Cincinnati..

Anyone have any clue to what this could be???

Time: Around 9pm Date: 1.6.25 Location: Between Columbus Ohio and Cincinnati

Sounds like a prop plane, 24,000 ft around 1AM, note the angled window at the side of the cockpit....

Could be this Cessna Conquest.

Note the small angled window,,,

 

[Ravi]

Sounds like a prop plane, 24,000 ft around 1AM, note the angled window at the side of the cockpit....

I think it really shows the slowly fading in and out is a signature of the Starlink phenomena. Meaning, if pilots would remember this feature/signature, perhaps it is less of a mystery.

 

[jarlrmai]

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1hydga0/im_a_flight_nurse_and_our_medevac_helicopter_crew/


Starlink?

Filmed from a helicopter, on nightvision so there might be some stars to track against.

 

[flarkey]

Flarkey's Post

Yes, probably Starlink flares,.

Time: 0405hrs on 01JAN2025

Location: In desert between Yuma, AZ, and Phoenix, AZ. (see flight radar screen shot).

Filming Equipment: iPhone 14 Pro, filming through a J-31 Binocular White Phosphor Gen 2+ Night Vision

Duration of Sighting: ~45 minutes

Situation Background:

At approximately 0405hrs, on 01JAN2025, my pilot spotted two aircraft, moving from the South to the North. We were heading in a NE direction, from the city of Yuma towards Downtown Phoenix. (See the flight radar photo for approximate location). The two aircraft, one of which appeared to be in similar altitude to us. We were flying at 2000 feet. My pilot noted that neither aircraft were tracked on ADS-B In (this is basically like a passive "radar", it feeds information in to our helicopter in real time about other aircraft in the area). Side note, it does not always give us information on ALL aircraft, such as some military aircraft, crop dusters, paramotorists, etc.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3WJfxZx0WE&ab_channel=mandrew338


Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1hydga0/comment/m6hcri0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button



Medevac helo KML attached

https://www.metabunk.org/u/wUNuHy.html

 

[flarkey]

The view in sitrec matches the view in the video at 0445hrs (video time cose 17m11s)

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[flarkey]

Response on Reddit from the Medevac guy....

Source

 

[jarlrmai]

The problem with Reddit UFOs is you get these posts, they get huge upvotes "pilots see more UFOs" reinforces all sorts of UFO beliefs.

It gets solved in one tiny comment thread, the OP agrees with the explanation but it's a still a 5000 upvotes UFO confirmation video in the minds of many.

 

[JMartJr]

Would make a good, and deserved, signature quote!