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Zero7CO t1_j6cmeje wrote

I believe you are describing something I have seen two times in the last year. It was even brought up on the NextDoor app as another neighbors saw it, described it and was shook-up over it (as I was…particularly my last siting of it). FYI I live in Denver CO.

Basically, what we both saw were 7-10 very light dots, almost too faint to see, moving at ridiculous speed in an arrowhead or similar formation. First time I saw it it was going south to north…then last time it was moving north to south. Absolutely no sound, no flashing lights, but insane speed. Took 15 seconds to traverse the entire sky. As a comparison, the ISS or a Starlink flyover takes at least 4-6 minutes.

It was most definitely NOT Starlink. I have thousands of hours stargazing and know one of those from a spy satellite from a Iridium Flare from a plane from spinning rocket debris, etc…this moved exponentially faster and in a completely different pattern than Starlink. I’ve seen 4 flyovers of those…and these couldn’t be more different. Every time I’ve mentioned it it’s the response I get as well….it’s something different.

The last time I saw it, about 6 weeks ago…for whatever reason the hair stood up on the back of my neck and I got choked up the second I saw it. That’s how impactful it was to me.

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OnlyAstronomyFans t1_j6dn5cr wrote

It’s a train of StarLink satellites, not the end of the world or aliens, though I hate StarLink. That idiot is ruining the night sky for the whole planet.

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Zero7CO t1_j6e3m0l wrote

No it is not. I’ve seen 9 Starlink passes. The fastest I’ve seen a line pass-over is one that came over a few hours after launch. It took 3 minutes to do its pass. Always a straight line. This was an arrow-shaped formation with the point of the arrow leading the others, with one directly behind it. It traversed the entire sky in 15 seconds…over 15x faster than the fastest Starlink passover.

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OnlyAstronomyFans t1_j6el3sp wrote

They’ve been trying out different train configurations. Believe me it’s star link or some other low earth orbit communications satellite. We didn’t find aliens or anything.

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hawkz40 OP t1_j6ff30v wrote

you don't know we didn't. Perhaps they didn't think we'd spot them in arrow formation :P

I added a sample image of what I saw to the opening post...

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SpaceInMyBrain t1_j6drfkf wrote

Starlinks in their orbits can be distinguished from an Iridium or other satellites, I suppose. But in the days after their launch Starlinks travel in a line as they slowly climb to their designated orbits, eventually spreading out. A lot will be seen in a single line soon after launch and later there'll be only one or two visible at a time, very spaced out.

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