I’m pretty sure I don’t believe in aliens. That said, I saw something and have no idea what it was. I’m hoping somebody here will be able to tell me what it could have been. Ball lightning, odd satelite…
It was at 10:30 tonight and I was outside with my three wonderful dogs. I live in a woodsy area with no street lights. So there was a light in the sky. It was about the size, shape and colour of a really bright star. It moved along silently and was going faster than plane but much slower than a meteor and had no tail.
It seemed to be as far away as a small plane usually flies. The light went out, then two lights came on and they went in opposite directions. Then both of the lights faded and went out.
Thats it. At first I thought it must be a plane way up because it made no sound but then i realized that when a plane is up that high, it appears to move very slow.
I’m a skeptic, I like being a skeptic. I would be very happy if someone came in here and said “oh, it was just so and so”.
You have absolutely no way of knowing how far away it was. Depth perception is limited by how far apart your eyes are and they are too close to distingush betweem “small plane close” and “large plane far”. Without knowing how far away it was you can’t judge how fast it was going either.
An exact distance? No. But distinguishing between a plane and a satellite should be pretty simple. The casual viewer may not see it, but if you’ve seen enough satellites floating through the sky, you can tell when your looking at one, and that of a plane.
Not sure how many satellites split and start travelling in opposite directions/fading out suddenly…
Statistically speaking though, between the possibility of it being an alien vessel that split into two and faded out or something more mundane–mundane is my bet.
I would say depending on where the satellite is in orbit in relation to the amount of sunlight it receives, the satellite will give off different lighting effects. The most common is a constant white dot. But as it orbits Earth, that light will change, and sometimes disappear, and then come back again. Even when the satellite is still in the same hemisphere you’re viewing it from. It’s strange, but that’s how I’ve witnessed them.
But you can still see satellites orbiting the Earth, right? As these white dots of light moving steadily across the sky? Because I got into an argument last weekend with some friends of mine who were of the opinion that what I claimed were satellites were just airplanes flying high in the sky… Granted, we saw three dots at the same time, moving in slightly different directions, one much dimmer than the other two, but I’ve always thought that they were satellites.
[conviction held from childhood in danger of being debunked…whimper]
I observed something every similar a few years ago, and started a thread on it. The OP is almost identical to the one here! I don’t think we ever actually figured out what it was. I Saw Lights in the Sky. What Were They?
That would be caused by the shape of the satellite. It won’t reflect light in certain directions from certain angles. Or it could be passing through the shadow of the earth.
Register and Log-In at Heavens Above Website. You can go back to the time and location to match the particular satelite that you saw within 24 hours I believe. You need to know your latitude and longitude coordinates and your elevation. A really cool site to look for satelites, the Hubble, International Space Station, Iridium Flashes, etc.
Also, you can see more than one satellite at a time as well…sometimes they will cross paths from your point of view. Some satellites will even travel in pairs or triples (in triangular fashion - I discovered that on accident…quite freaky!)
Sort of sounds like a fireball or an earthgrazer . About the diverging of the lights, it could be that it broke up druing enrty or passing through the upper atmosphere.
Is it possible that you saw a military aircraft dropping flares? Maybe they turned off external lights prior to dropping the flares in some type of flight test or post-maintenance check flight.
