What's this? Line of simultaneous lights in sky

brianiac · 11-10-2023 11:39pm #1

I was piddling

with the dog in the garden west of swords and happened to see what looked like a line of lights in the sky. reasonably odd so took out teh phone and caught a pic. it took a longer exposure (samsung fold 3) so figured i would see better. For the sake of clarity - this exposure was perhaps 2secs and the lights were all visible simultaneously (its not a prolonged exposure with the same light appearing multiple times within the same frame). shortly after it seemed to disappear from view completely. Have never seen anything like it before. is this starlink or somesuch?

o1s1n · 11-10-2023 11:42pm

Looks like Starlink alright!

brianiac · 12-10-2023 9:30am

pretty intrusive. any ideas if that is sunlight reflected back by the satellite? I can see why astronomers would be giving out if this is just the beginning....

Markus Antonius · 13-10-2023 9:20pm

I saw a similar sight tonight over Galway (at 8:45pm 13/10/23) except they were well spaced apart and stationary, just like stars. Then a few seconds after I spotted them the first one started moving from W to SE followed by the second and so on until they all vanished. Very similar to this video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pU0YRBUUwEc

i don't think they are starlink anything, I think it's the US delivering a shipment of drones.

looksee · 13-10-2023 9:40pm

Just came on to ask the same thing, pretty much exactly like the video though they seemed to be closer and therefore more widely spaced. I only saw 8 so presumably saw the tail end of the trail. At a particular point in the sky they vanished in turn. Very clear night, lots of stars, no cloud. Seen on Waterford coast, moving from west to more or less south east.

L1011 · 13-10-2023 9:42pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121234726#Comment_121234726

Starlink sats waiting to go on-station. Very common now, Space Karen is filling the skies with future debris

screamer · 13-10-2023 9:47pm

We are not Elone !!

looksee · 13-10-2023 9:47pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121234736#Comment_121234736

Quite striking the first time you see them, but as you say, they will just become visual clutter when we are used to them.

L1011 · 13-10-2023 9:57pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121234799#Comment_121234799

Once deployed they won't be running in lines like that. But they are filling up the possible orbits and have a defined lifespan with no proper plans to deorbit

o1s1n · 13-10-2023 10:01pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121234575#Comment_121234575

They are 100% Starlink, that's not how anyone delivers drones long range.

Unless the US are delivering drones to Galway?

Markus Antonius · 13-10-2023 11:48pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121234924#Comment_121234924

What are you on about? Whatever it was was at least 50000 feet up. Show me any spacex footage showing satellite deployment going from stationary to orbit velocity mid-air as has been viewed.

o1s1n · 14-10-2023 12:24am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121235491#Comment_121235491

Ah, I just realised who I'm talking to.

You're right, they're American drones. What they actually do is break formation shortly and spread all over the world so people think they're the ISS. (Which you've proved to us multiple times now with your compelling proof that it doesn't exist)

They're actually really smart drones as they track the fake ISS website to really make it look like that's what they are.

They also double up to spread chemtrails during the day.

Have I managed to get everything in there? Or have they also got something to do with the JFK assassination and man not actually landing on the moon?

looksee · 14-10-2023 9:13am

Why do they appear to vanish at the same spot in the sky, is it that they have reached the edge of the sun's reflection? They do appear to 'go out' very suddenly rather than fading away.