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6:05 am PDT. I was out for my morning walk. I was walking due east. Something overhead caught my attention. From a point on the horizon directly west of me, pointing ENE, was a line of "lights", certainly over 50 but likely some hundreds, pretty steady stream but clumped up, not evenly spaced. Moving fast, crossing the sky faster than a plane by a lot, faster than a satellite unless it was really low. No vapor trail so probably outside of atmosphere.

Has anyone heard anything about us losing a satellite? Seemed too many things in too straight a line for a wad o' space rocks.

Just curious. Not seeing anything on any news.

Another starlink thread

Yay!!

Starlink Satellites

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbt...e/re-ufos-sighting-just-now#Post15885702

Starlink....... I have seen them.

Google it look at the images

My biggest question is, TOM< what are you doing up that early?!

How long did they last? Did they just go all the way across the horizon until out of sight, like a sustained flight, or like something "coming down"?

Rocky, prepare the Elon Musk 4,000 word cut-n-paste

He would get excited if they were sending up starlink black lab puppies.


They don't reflect as much.....

The ones we saw in December went from the horizon straight up and disappeared almost straight overhead. They'll shine in the sunlight but when they enter the earth's shadow, they go dark.

I'm almost always up that early ... or earlier if there's hunting or fishing to do. Usually get up at 5:00. If the weather is good, go for a walk, otherwise reload ammo 'til it's time for work.

I would guess sustained flight or "pass by". No sign of them interacting with atmosphere. A while later, on a different course, there was a pretty bright satellite. These were brighter and crossing the sky 3-5 times as fast.

I may have lowballed the guess on numbers. The last were just coming into sight over the horizon to the west when the leading edge was past overhead, maybe 2/3 of the way from west to east. They faded out before crossing the horizon .. probably angle of the sun. There were no big gaps in the stream but it was not even and there were clumps of maybe a dozen here or there, so .. probably well into the hundreds. They didn't all seem to be the same size or brightness.

My first impression was debris, not something organized.

Beats me.

Musk zoomies...
Sounds pretty cool.
West to east
So they are going faster than the Dragon capsule and faster than the earth's rotation.

I think they are supposed to be geostationary when in position. So apparently they carry a fair bit of juice with them...

These were faster because they were much lower. Soon they'll move themselves to a much higher orbit where you'll never see them. I've read that they're launched 60 at a time. There are about 1000 of them in orbit now and about 1500 more planned. Possibly they've started to move higher and the cluster was breaking up. It's part of Starlink's plans to offer high speed internet anywhere on the globe.

Tom- yeah got more than one of us excited. I actually called Sherriff's department a day or two later. They called back and gave me a definition after they discovered it. Seeing it is enough to make one consider we actually really did land on the moon.

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbt...der-starlink-launch-tonight#Post15879950

This.

Just like the 3 UFO'S that came over me and Larry "Buck" Wright early one October day in 1966 just before daylight while we sat up in a big mesquite tree with our modern recurve bows and microflight arrows anticipating the magic of a cool, moist Gulf of Mexico sea breeze and buckbrush smell laden dawn over the South Texas brush country, along with our hopes of soon to be seen big bucks and the excitement they would bring us while just up the coast from Corpus Christi, not imagining the mysterious magic that would soon to be revealed or the fear and excitement it would bring.

Peyote or shrooms?

😃

I'm glad it was nothing too bad. The way the "lights" were somewhat clumped reminded me of .. debris. And I was thinking of the Columbia disaster.

I wonder if rather than Starlink it should be called Skynet.

Never did drugs and back them just touching a "pizen" mushroom accidently and then eating an apple would kill your as dead as a doornail, mister.

That was the Saturday before the Sunday Corpus Christi Caller covered with the headlines about all the early Saturday morning flights into and out of the airport reporting about all the aitline pilots having seen the 3 UFOs.

Hmmm, well was there a trailer park nearby? lol

Tornadoes and UFOs visit there often

Starlink for sure. As mentioned above, they are launched 60 at a time to a low altitude, and then each one maneuvers to a higher (and invisible) altitude of about 340 miles. The next batch is now set to go up March 22. They'll be launching them two to three times a month for the foreseeable future. They need about 2,000 of them to get global internet service, but they are designed to be short-lived so they can be replaced with improved models as the technology improves. They also de-orbit themselves when they're done and burn up completely.

The new ones to come will talk to each other via lasers, reducing or eliminating the need for ground "repeater" stations entirely and allowing for total ocean and airliner coverage.

I understand the new ones will be anti-reflective too so less of these reports.