What did I see? ~12 planes flying north?

Factual Questions
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This morning at approximately 6am PST near the Salem, OR area I noticed there were approximately 12 lights way up in the sky moving south to north. They were mostly in a straight line, but not exactly. They were unevenly spaced. If you held your hand out in front of you, some were about a fist’s width apart, others were only a finger or two. They looked like they were loosely grouped, with the first three ahead of all the others. There could have been more than the approximately 12 I saw, but I only noticed the last 12. I couldn’t see them for very long as my view was blocked by a lot of tall trees.

I could not hear any sounds of planes at all, which isn’t surprising if they were up at a cruising altitude. They lights were a steady white light, not a blinking red/blue light.

I’m assuming they were planes as no other possibilities make much sense. I don’t think they were satellites or meteors.

Any thoughts? Military planes returning to the base at PDX?

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Could it have been the Unicorn meteor shower?

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I saw a snippet on the news about that and they said it wouldn’t be visible where I am. Also, these lights kept their spacing the entire time and weren’t changing in intensity like I would expect from a meteor shower.

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Zangorre! We have been spotted! I told you to cloak your bleeblefesmores. Now we have to blank many minds. This comes out of your skshdfkjhdf allotment. Bad Zangorre, bad!

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Cool your jets Exapno. Stupid humans rarely look up, and even if they do, they will ask about it on one of their forums and get loads of daft answers.

Zangorre out.

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If a lot of planes happen to be heading in the same direction, you can easily end up with a long line of them, as this video shows:

If they were military planes, they could have been on a training mission or could have just been repositioning planes to a different base.
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A little late to help now, but adsbexchange.com is the go-to resource for questions like, “What plane is that right now?”

Not every aircraft is broadcasting ADS-B position and identification data, but the one’s that aren’t are more typically lower flying planes.

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Flightradar24 allows playback for a specific date and time. Checking it for Salem OR at that time today - there wasn’t very much going on. A Dash-8 going from Medford to Seattle was the only plane broadcasting its position.

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Thanks! That must be what I saw. Based on the 10 minutes I used to try to track this, it looks like those satellites, or at lest some of them, were near that area around 6am PST and based on the displays I saw, the satellites aren’t in a perfect line, which matches what I observed.

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Timelapse video of the satellites from Ontario here (along with meteors; satellites start at 0:05)