UFO's in Geelong - Maybe

[ubeaut]

Was in the spa at 05:20 this morning looking up at an almost clear sky when I saw an object that looked like a star or planet begin to move quickly across the sky in an East North East direction. i figured it must be an aeropalne but very, very, high in the sky as there was no sound at all.


It took around 20+ seconds to move across the sky and out of sight. Another 10 - 15 seconds later I saw another following in what looked to be the exact same path as the first. Then there were about 12 more all around 10-15 seconds apart and all going in the same direction.


This started at around 05:35 (no watch so just a rough guess) and continued for maybe 15 or more minutes. Then another lot started coming through travelling North East around another 12 of them all on the same flight path and all spaced out about the same distance apart. As one left my view another would come into view some 10 seconds later.


They had no flashing lights/twinkle that I could see but they were so high up that the flashing lights may have been almost impossible to see anyway. Looked more like a planet than a star because of this.


They were subsonic as there was no noise. No I hadn't been drinking and they weren't meteors as there were no tails. There was also no vapor trail that I could see when the night sky started to lighten to blue and the last of them disappeared from my view.


I'm guessing there could have been more than 20 as I wasn't counting, just being fascinated by what I was seeing. Pity I didn't have a camera with me but I wasn't leaving the hot water to get one, only to find they'd all disappeared by the time I got back after soaking the carpet with chlorinated water dripping off me.


Anyone got any bright ideas what it might have been. Redeployment of Air Force or commercial planes maybe. Don't reckon it was little green or gray men, or an invasion force. Again I had not been drinking, I don't do drugs, I wasn't seeing things, I don't hallucinate and was fully awake.

Cheers - Neil

[ubeaut]

Just had a look at meteor dates for 2020 and next one is 22nd April:

Shower name: Lyrid, predawn from the South 10 meteors per hour and coming from the Comet Thatcher.

So it could be s few early ones from that but highly unlikely as the objects were without tails and coming from slightly wrong direction.

[poundy]

Judging by the Lyrid calc I've seen, its probably them, but very late running. Lyrids Meteor Shower 2020 Set date to last night/today. You can see the table showed that around the time you spotted them they were at 17* above horizon.

[taz01]

Might be this Neil:

Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are interfering with astronomy. It’s just the beginning. - Vox

Elon musk's starlink satellite network

[RossM]

Starlink is most likely

Here are the satellites you may have seen - change date and select Morning
Daily predictions for brighter satellites

[woodPixel]

These are starlinks.

There will be thousands. Quite a few astronomers are a bit upset about them.

[PJM16]

They would have been satellites. Quite easy to spot any time of the night once you know what to look for.

[RossM]

These are starlinks.

There will be thousands. Quite a few astronomers are a bit upset about them.

Well - hundreds at the moment . Only 362 Starlinks have been launched to date - another 60 due on 23 April and then 60 more sometime in May. Ultimately there will be thousands, and many thousands more when Project Kuiper launches. (OneWeb launched a few, but has recently gone into bankruptcy protection). And Samsung announced it was planning to build a network of around 4,500 satellites a few years back - but no follow up details. Boeing, and Hongwan (China) also have plans for large deployment LEO satellites. Astronomers are certainly upset - potentially 80,000 or so satellites in the long term interrupting earth based optical & radio astronomy observations.

See my earlier post where you can click the link & find out when satellites are visible. It provides a comprehensive list. You can change you location & the dates.

[LanceC]

They would have been satellites. Quite easy to spot any time of the night once you know what to look for.

Agreed, and despite all the talk of new constellations being launched, this isn't new.

Around twenty years ago when we would go camping, one of my favourite activities to do in the evenings after the kids were put to bed was to lie on the grass and look at satellites.

I found that by looking through "hand binoculars" and sticking to one piece of sky, it would only be a matter of minutes before a satellite would cross my path. I would the follow that satellite, which would generally cross paths with another which I would then start following. I would see how many I could hop between before having to start again.

I still do it from time to time now, but Tasmanian nights are a little more chilly than balmy Queensland evenings! A shame, as the sky is way more spectacular down here.

[woodPixel]

...Around twenty years ago when we would go camping, one of my favourite activities to do in the evenings after the kids were put to bed was to lie on the grass and look at satellites.

....A shame, as the sky is way more spectacular down here.

Such great memories. My brother and I did the same. It felt mystical. Wondrous.

[damian]

Chemtrails, definitely chemtrails.

[China]

Elon Musk satellites without a doubt

[ubeaut]

Thanks for all the replies.

In all honesty I have never taken much notice of Elon Musk and his Starlink satellites. Last ine I remember seeing or taking notice of was Sputnik when it flew over Melbourne back in 1957. My whole and our neighbors were out in our back yard to see it fly over.

Cheers - Neil

PS I'll keep an eye on the charts now and watch.

[woodPixel]

...Last ine I remember seeing or taking notice of was Sputnik when it flew over Melbourne back in 1957. My whole and our neighbors were out in our back yard to see it fly over.

Wow.

That really hammers home how much tech has changed.

One lifetime - from the first satellite, to entire constellations that blast the internet at us from anywhere in the world...

Incredible.

[KBs PensNmore]

They've polluted the Seas and Earth, now the skies, what's next..
Wonder what'll happen if one gets out of sync from where it should be, and crashes into another?????
Kryn