Mystery Objects in the Night Sky plus a UAP Sighting Feb. - March 2024.

[@juperrr]

Thank you for posting this ! Really intresting stuff. I can't wait for another video.

[@plenum88]

Thanks!

[@space_audits]

Glad to see you're doing well. Your work (videos, papers, archives, simulators) have been extremely helpful and educational. You have some of the best content on KZbin. Looking forward to the follow up UAP videos.

[@plenum88]

Wow, thanks! Hoping to get more content out there in the coming months.

[@ozradek1]

Love it, thank you! Some real science for a change, instead of 'show me the money' or 'show me where it says that in the textbooks'.

[@plenum88]

Thanks!

[@gordonm1690]

I actually witnessed by eye like you have with telescope. This tiny point of light moved across the sky right to left. It stopped mid track and then shoot up into the sky in an upwards and outwards destination ie space. Made enquiries as to iss and satellites but this thing wasn't one of them. It was far far too fast after it stopped dead to move off again.

[@plenum88]

Oh good! That is exactly the kind of thing I am trying to see.

[@gordonm1690]

@@plenum88 I was really lucky. It was a cold Feb night not a cloud in the sky, 11pm this was about 9yrs ago. Never forgot it..... Obviously. Lol. Witnessed by myself and my son at the time. Truth is I don't know what made us look up after we got out the car..... And then just watched this small dot of light move across the sky. Certainly didn't expect it to stop dead in its tracks lol.... Or zip away at speed.... But I'm glad of the experience!

[@michaelearley8852]

Keep watching Pleiades

[@plenum88]

Okay, good idea!

[@anyasays]

Currently morning 5:10am in India I witnessed by my naked eyes a moving object in the sky. I had noticed this many times. Today I saw 2-3 things being moved together... 1st I thought that was aeroplane but object change their direction very quickly. I started getting curious to know what this is. Now I am here.

[@24sandal]

We have seen similar things at night sky in one stretch long line many lights are passing through desaru coast on 29th march good Friday. Me and my friends are witness of it. We surprised and still curious to know what was it.

[@plenum88]

It sounds like a train of starlink satellites being released after launch.

[@alexandrefabbrini6273]

I'm an airline pilot, and many of us have seen these lights with the naked eye. More than once time! They change direction, intensity, and speed, so there's no way they're satellites!

[@stevenjones6561]

Indeed interesting! Can you look at "moving lights on or near the moon? (Especially in shadowed areas of the moon,.)

[@plenum88]

Yes, that would be great to try. With the CCD camera being super-sensitive to light, the reflective parts of the moon might wash things out, so perhaps when it is close to the new moon this might be something to attempt.

[@kirkhamandy]

The first two "sus" ones, especially the second, looked like decommissioned NAVSTAR GPS satellites. It's possible they're not in the catalog you're using for ID.

[@plenum88]

Yes, its possible, I mean the Saber Astronautics site seems to have most every object covered but maybe they missed a few, or their TLE's could be inaccurate occasionally. Or it could be something more interesting, can't say.

[@kirkhamandy]

@@plenum88 There are also military TLEs that are not generally found in databases. That last one didn't move like any satellite I've seen (it's a hobby, yes, don't ask). That deviation was HUGE for anything at the LEO altitude, so that rules out a satellite. Must be something closer? But what?

[@plenum88]

@@kirkhamandyRegarding your first comment, I checked the Saber Astronautics database and it has 76 Navstar objects going right back to Navstar1, the first US GPS satellite launched in 1978. The last one definitely wasn't a satellite - if it was reflecting sunlight, then it would have to be maybe 300-500 km up. If lower, then it must have been self-illuminated. You should check out dutchfly-61's video at: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipSbYYVoo8ehmposi=58vgweqEqae6uTjC . He uses Gen 3 night vision and spots an object at time = 9 minutes that also changes direction, including stopping and making a right angle turn.