do any jets fly over Dublin?

ibstar

Reason I'm asking is because about 4 days ago myself and the missus saw blue light (we thought of as flame from a jet) at approximately 23:00m-24:00 flying high enough to look the same size as the stars.
I live in D15 and our balcony is situated in a very good view to see planes at various heights coming in for landing, and never seen a plane going in that particular direction before, and at that speed, or that high up at night time.
Before you laugh, no we aren't stoners or alcoholics and we don't believe in UFO.

TheChizler

Wouldn't have been anything like this would it?

dubscottie

I think the International Space Station passed over around that time a few nights back

ibstar

TheChizler wrote: »

Wouldn't have been anything like this would it?

It was traveling horizontally,from left to right.
Is that normal for a star?

PS: we have observed falling stars from our balcony before, and they all seems to travel diagonally, but I think your theory is right. The date and the time of the article and the posts are smack in the timezone we have seen it.

TheChizler

ibstar wrote: »

It was traveling horizontally,from left to right.
Is that normal for a star?

Meteorites can travel any direction depending on your frame of reference . So can the ISS. Was it over in a flash or did it take a minute or two to pass? If the latter it sounds like the ISS, or if it was very faint any number of other satellites. With aircraft you'd probably be able to see a strobe light flashing.

ibstar

TheChizler wrote: »

Meteorites can travel any direction depending on your frame of reference . So can the ISS. Was it over in a flash or did it take a minute or two to pass? If the latter it sounds like the ISS, or if it was very faint any number of other satellites. With aircraft you'd probably be able to see a strobe light flashing.

We can confirm that it wasn't over in a flash. It traveled long enough for us to follow it and ask each other if we're both seeing the same and what it could be,it was then obscured by some very light clouds, but never came out from them.
We thought that it ascended too high for us to see.

ibstar

this could be it. I knew I should have posted on the day we saw it, but it was defiantly before the weekend, and I only remembered to post it now.
http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/view.cfm?country=Ireland&region=None&city=Dublin#.VdIIDflVhBc

It was a cool siting nevertheless.

Any chance it was the flashing LED strobes of a 787, AeroMexico Paris and London flights to Mexico City can be passing at that time of night.

Cessna_Pilot

Handy link for next time here! ;
http://www.isstracker.com/

basill

Download the skyguide app and next time just point your phone in the direction of the planet, star, satellite etc and it will tell you all you could ever want to know. And if it ain't showing anything then you might get lucky with the FR24 app although some aircraft are not shown either cos they opt out or do not have compatible transponders.

FreudianSlippers

At that altitude even if it was a plane, it wouldn't necessarily be "over" Dublin would it? Therefore the answer could be potentially loads of planes flying over Ireland at 30k+ft at night?

ibstar

Came back to post and say it's defiantly a space station. I seen it more than one time since now and always moving in the same trajectory at the same speed.