Giant Ambush Beetle
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Nov 11, 2015 6:24:06 GMT -6
On a serious note, I have the privilege of living in the country, where there is little light pollution and the night sky is very visible. I often see objects that look exactly like stars until they start to move around, they behave oddly, accelerate and stop in an instant, make turns and sometimes vibrate or stop altogether till the sun rises. I've watched those with friends and neighbors and they were stunned.
I can rule out car lights, because that sort of thing happens during clear nights with nothing to project the light on, not to mention the car would have to have lights concentrated like laser beams. I've seen laser shows and they look very different. First I thought it could be space trash in the orbit reflecting sunlight until that stuff bounces off the atmosphere. But trash cannot fly those maneuvers, neither can planes. They must appear at a very high altitude because I've never seen those lights under a cloud cover, not even under those feathered high altitude clouds. Sometimes I see like three or four of those lights per night and once I saw one so big I thought it was an oddly enlarged Polaris until it started to move across the sky only to vanish at the horizon.
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