Yesterday morning, when we went out before sunrise, we saw an eerie thing in the night sky. A regular string of stars moving sort of briskly along in the night sky. There were dozens of them, each following the others in a straight line, like a train. We watched them for several minutes until they vanished behind clouds.
While we wanted to believe it was an alien convoy, we knew there had to be an explanation. Googling found this video, and the answer: they’re SpaceX’s Starlink satellite train.
It was a strange experience. I hope I see it again sometime.
I guess they’re usually pretty faint, but if the sun is reflecting off of them at just the right angle in relation to the observer, it’s pretty spectacular.
A few years ago, I was driving down the street, when I saw something really eerie. It looked like a shining object, bright even in the daytime sky, just…hovering, over the city, while also changing its shape. I couldn’t figure out what I was seeing, nor why no one else was reacting to this bizarre UFO. It seemed like I was looking at it for a minute or more as it just hung, motionless, changing its geometry.
I realized, though, it had only actually been a few seconds, and the UFO resolved itself into a perfectly ordinary airliner, in a standard flight path for the local airport, ascending and turning at a sharp angle, with sunlight glinting off of it. The circumstance created the momentary visual illusion of a motionless, shape-changing object, turning something I literally see every day into a UFO.
Mine was when I was a teenager in Northern Ohio. It was evening and we were family-watching the TV when we started to hear a loud noise none of us could identify. It sounded like a plane, but it was moving to slow to be an aircraft and sounded nothing like a helicopter.
I stuck my head out the door and looked up…and there was this big dark…mass…slowly moving overhead, no lights that I could see and blotting out much of the sky. And for 2-3 seconds I was sure the aliens had arrived. Until they started signalling…
BUY…GOODYEAR…TIRES
It was of course, the Goodyear Blimp, about 1200 ft (IMHO) overhead, so we all (including most of the neighboorhood) piled out and watched it for the next 20-25 minutes until it disappeared.
I have mixed feelings about StarLink. Seeing the satellites, however occasionally will be odd at first. Living rural, I have a very, very clear sky. However, my internet speed sucks.
Now that I’m working from home though, I’ll probably be one of the first to sign up.
One night I was awoken by loud sibilant sounds and bright lights coming from the street, my room’s window looked directly to the street but the blinds were closed.
Tremulously I approached the window and tried to see through the spaces between the blinds boards. Something very large was moving slowly thru the street.
A part of me was jumping up and down in my brain claiming “An UFO an UFO, aliens are landing in front of my house!”.
Wereas Rational Frodo was saying “Nahhh”
So I opened the blinds a bit and got a better view.
It was street cleaning truck, a large truck with large sort of brushes underside that spewed water and brushed the street clear.
I had never seen one, and didn’t know they existed until that day, I would’ve prefered a ral UFO anyway
