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Yucatan2 04-30-2020 08:29 PM

Did anyone else see this?
 
Just went outside at 9:15ish 4/30/2020, to look for my cat. Looked up into the sky and saw a very long line of what looked like jets flying single file, almost spaced exactly the same distance apart, flying over my house in Del Mar, in a west to east direction. Ran back inside to get my husband to look with me, we both watched this for several minutes until they got too far to see.

Any ideas what this was? My guess is airlines moving jets to another airport.....unless is was military jets.

SIRE1 04-30-2020 09:17 PM

I suspect you saw the satellites that SpaceX has been launching. In each launch, there are a lot of them (don't know how many) and they are placed into low earth orbit and will eventually be raised to their final location. They are intended to support WiFi anywhere on earth. A week or so ago the Daily Sun had a story about people seeing a line of lights in the sky like you described and the answer was the SpaceX satellites.

Bgreuter 04-30-2020 09:19 PM

Did anyone else see this?
 
My husband saw the same thing. He said he has never seen anything like this formation.

Koapaka 05-01-2020 05:27 AM

blue angels flyover schedule - Bing

Did the same last year, only a day earlier

Blue Angels to fly over Epcot in Orlando

oldyeller 05-01-2020 06:09 AM

SpaceX Starlink Satellites Tracker

Yucatan2 05-01-2020 07:06 AM

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Originally Posted by SIRE1 (Post 1756507)
I suspect you saw the satellites that SpaceX has been launching. In each launch, there are a lot of them (don't know how many) and they are placed into low earth orbit and will eventually be raised to their final location. They are intended to support WiFi anywhere on earth. A week or so ago the Daily Sun had a story about people seeing a line of lights in the sky like you described and the answer was the SpaceX satellites.

Thank you! I was thinking they looked more like satellites than aircraft because I could see no blinking lights. Next guess was aliens, LOL!
What a weird and amazing thing to see, there were so many!
I would think Blue Angels flyovers would be during daylight hours as well.

Yucatan2 05-01-2020 07:28 AM

On Forbes.com, there is a twitter video by Astrit Spanca that shows exactly what we saw. The article is entitled “How to see a Starlink Train from your home this week as SpaceX satellites swarm the night sky, and is dated April 20.
Sorry I don’t know how to link it here. The video is halfway down the page, taken in Kosovo. Very interesting!

DeanFL 05-01-2020 07:30 AM

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Did you see it? A Starlink train flew over Florida last night

Orlando, Fla. - If you were lucky enough to step outside at 9 p.m. and look at the clear starry skies last night, you couldn’t miss the train of satellites flying overhead.

The recently launched Starlink satellites streaked across the sky, Thursday, passing close to the moon in spectacular fashion.

davem4616 05-01-2020 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by DeanFL (Post 1756656)
Did you see it? A Starlink train flew over Florida last night

Orlando, Fla. - If you were lucky enough to step outside at 9 p.m. and look at the clear starry skies last night, you couldn’t miss the train of satellites flying overhead.

The recently launched Starlink satellites streaked across the sky, Thursday, passing close to the moon in spectacular fashion.



thanks for posting the picture...interesting world that we live in

Lottoguy 05-01-2020 09:39 AM

You saw the Starlink satellies that Elan Musk launched last year. Eventually there will be thousands of them in the sky.
Starlink Satellites Fly Over THE VILLAGES - YouTube

EdFNJ 05-01-2020 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Lottoguy (Post 1756787)
You saw the Starlink satellies that Elan Musk launched last year. Eventually there will be thousands of them in the sky.
Starlink Satellites Fly Over THE VILLAGES - YouTube

Great video! Thanks.

charlieo1126@gmail.com 05-05-2020 10:07 AM

Maybe
 
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Originally Posted by Yucatan2 (Post 1756492)
Just went outside at 9:15ish 4/30/2020, to look for my cat. Looked up into the sky and saw a very long line of what looked like jets flying single file, almost spaced exactly the same distance apart, flying over my house in Del Mar, in a west to east direction. Ran back inside to get my husband to look with me, we both watched this for several minutes until they got too far to see.

Any ideas what this was? My guess is airlines moving jets to another airport.....unless is was military jets.

the streak from a bird try to get away from your outside cat and not becoming one of the 1 to 3 billion birds ( and yes I said billion ) killed every year by house and wild cats

427dave 05-05-2020 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Yucatan2 (Post 1756492)
Just went outside at 9:15ish 4/30/2020, to look for my cat. Looked up into the sky and saw a very long line of what looked like jets flying single file, almost spaced exactly the same distance apart, flying over my house in Del Mar, in a west to east direction. Ran back inside to get my husband to look with me, we both watched this for several minutes until they got too far to see.

Any ideas what this was? My guess is airlines moving jets to another airport.....unless is was military jets.

These are the satellites that are going overhead to measure everyones temperature to see where the virus is concentrated at. They ask you to face up and to not have any clothes on.

Joe V. 05-05-2020 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by SIRE1 (Post 1756507)
I suspect you saw the satellites that SpaceX has been launching. In each launch, there are a lot of them (don't know how many) and they are placed into low earth orbit and will eventually be raised to their final location. They are intended to support WiFi anywhere on earth. A week or so ago the Daily Sun had a story about people seeing a line of lights in the sky like you described and the answer was the SpaceX satellites.

Exactly. NASA calls it a satellite train.


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