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I don't know what is up there, but I do recall an incident that I witnessed in the mid-1980's.  A neighborhood friend and I were interested in astronomy, so on clear nights we would break out out binoculars and telescopes and observed the night sky.  One night, we both saw something moving across the sky from north to south.  We both thought it was a satellite, at least until it made a 90 degree turn to the west.  It was not an arcing turn either, it was an impossibly sharp turn.  There was no possibly way for a man-made craft of that time to make an instantaneous 90 degree turn. 

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4 hours ago, stans said:

We both thought it was a satellite, at least until it made a 90 degree turn to the west.  It was not an arcing turn either, it was an impossibly sharp turn.  There was no possibly way for a man-made craft of that time to make an instantaneous 90 degree turn. 

 

Such things have been seen recently by airline pilots. 

Reference to the videos of multiple lights moving around and flashing in space which  the angry astronaut has playing in the background while he speaks, which he notes are  of modern UAP orbs.

Is anyone able to reconcile what we are seeing there with behaviour that could be expected when viewing multiple Starlink satellites darting around amongst themselves?

This activity is usually confined to small areas of the night sky, and usually only witnessed in certain geographic locations. To my layman’s understanding if it were indeed starlink it could be expected to be seen all over the night sky and not limited to certain geographic locations?

I’d really like to understand this phenomenon , starlink seems to be the standard rational explanation offered but I personally just can’t make that fit

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Difficult to tell from the footage he showed. I didn't see any unusual manoeuvres, just looked like satalites to me.

My daughter and me were in the garden looking at stars recently, and identifying them with the app on her phone. We saw at least five satalites passing by, at speed. 

What I often see are stationary lights that go from nothing to extremely bright, sometimes on their own, other times there can be up to 6. Then if you keep watching they start moving, sometimes on their own, other times in formatted pairs, some go left, some go right, some up, some down, some fast, some slow.

I just can’t make that fit with satellite behaviour , which apart from when you see a recently launched train of starlink which follow each other in a line, are just singular dots of light travelling on a constant vector. 

787 captain.  

Previously 24 years on 747-400.Technical advisor on PMDG 747 legacy versions QOTS 1 , FS9 and Aerowinx PS1. 

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