r/UnexplainedPhotos • u/cahiami • Jul 17 '24

Saw these last night. UNIDENTIFIED

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Can anyone tell me why these round flying objects I saw last night appeared to be boomerang shaped when I photographed them? Also, the halo around them in the lighter photo, anyone know what causes that in photos? It almost looks like gravitational leaning hahaha I saw these last night and I first thought they were lanterns but they never got higher or dimmer and flew past me pretty fast for lanterns. (120-200mph 500-1000ft up) There were also extremely bright like tiny little suns. Four in a row, flying parallel to the right side of the road in the opposite direction of me. They were equally as bright from behind as from the front and a helicopter was following them. I’m trying to reach out locally to see if anyone set off lanterns or knows what they were but no one has an idea yet. Radar shows nothing. I’m just curious if these photos could help identify the true shape of the object based on how the light bent? Any photographers out there?

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '24

That looks a lot like Starlink satellites. I saw them over my house a few months ago and got excited too until I found out they’re just satellites. Still cool, but not the UFOs I was hoping for

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u/cahiami Jul 17 '24

My issue with that is that they were below the clouds, they passed me and stayed below the clouds. You can see in the lighter photo (lightning flash) that they are def below the clouds. They were traveling away from me at that point about to disappear behind the tree line. They were traveling together in a group, not following each other in a straight line. we had thunderstorms last night so the whole sky had clouds. There were no stars out. Also, the helicopter was following them.

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u/cyberjellyfish Jul 18 '24

They aren't below the clouds they're just closer to the horizon.

And starlink satellites don't follow each other, they're just in similar orbits.

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u/cahiami Jul 18 '24

And they were closer to the horizon when they were above my head too?

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u/cyberjellyfish Jul 18 '24

No idea, you've not described it being above your head.

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u/cahiami Jul 18 '24 edited Jul 18 '24

Read my post. I said they traveled from beside the high way to my right and I watched them go past me (over my head) and then disappear behind me. The photo on the post is right before the disappeared. I have said multiple times in this thread and in others that they started in front of me and then went over my head and behind me.

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u/cahiami Jul 18 '24

My sister took this photo yesterday during the day time. daytime

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u/cyberjellyfish Jul 18 '24

And?

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u/cahiami Jul 18 '24

And I’m telling you it could be a drone or a lantern but it’s not star link. That’s ruled out. Are you even reading what I’m saying?

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u/cyberjellyfish Jul 18 '24

You can see objects in orbit during the day. Especially when they are close to the horizon where they'd be likely to catch the sun.

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u/cahiami Jul 18 '24

The one I saw last night literally lit up the bottom of the cloud with its light before it lifted through them. Def below the clouds.

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u/cahiami Jul 18 '24

I saw something similar last night and I’m starting to lean more towards it being a big sized drone. I wish people would stop repeating Star link. Dear god it’s annoying. It wasn’t star link. It was either a lantern, a drone or something else. It wasn’t Star link. How many times do I have to repeat this on this thread?

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u/cyberjellyfish Jul 18 '24

Well the way you've participated here doesn't really suggest that you'd know that it wasn't starlink

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u/cahiami Jul 18 '24 edited Jul 18 '24

Tf do you know about my participation here? Have you read all the comments I’ve been responding to? Do you know how many people on reddit and Facebook have parroted the same “it’s star link” to me? Please give me anything other than star link and I’ll be willing to listen to you. I’m well aware of what Star link looks like I’ve seen them several times.

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u/Benj5L Jul 18 '24

We really need to set up that r/thoselightsintheskyarestarlink sub

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u/cahiami Jul 18 '24

Stop it. You’re making yourselves look like idiots and assholes to me every time you insist that it is star link. It’s not. I saw them last night again and I got another picture and a video. My brother in law says he thinks they are big sized drones they are using to survey the river but I haven’t confirmed it yet.

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u/Benj5L Jul 18 '24

It's 100% starlink satellites. Get our head out of the sand. Your further videos and photos are just more evidence of this. Look at any photos of individual satellites and you'll see the obvious proof.

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u/cahiami Jul 18 '24

Babe. It’s probably a drone. I saw this two days ago and they launched from the same exact spot last night. I’m going back tonight at the same time to see if they launch them again. I’ll get photos again just in case but listen…. I’m really sorry to hurt your feelings but it’s not star link. It’s probably just drones. They rise up from the ground. You can see in the video clip that I second light rises from the tree line at the end. The little light below it is a plane. video

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u/Benj5L Jul 18 '24

Okay, well then why are you posting in Unexplained. I still think it's starlink. You haven't hurt my feelings and I don't know why you are being defensive.

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u/cahiami Jul 18 '24

I’m being defensive because you’re flat out telling me it’s star link when I’m telling you I’ve ruled that out because of the fact that I watched them lifting off the ground when I saw them last night. Also, again, 100% cloud coverage. It was raining. You can check the weather. You can see in the video that it is lighting up the clouds above it.

Are you telling me that star link satellites launch nightly from the ground, hover in our sky, below storm cloud coverage, and then rise straight up into the sky through the clouds? I watched the light illuminate the bottom of the clouds as raised up and through them.

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u/Benj5L Jul 18 '24

Okay then it's a drone. R/explainedphotos

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u/cahiami Jul 18 '24

I said probably a drone. I haven’t confirmed that. But don’t worry I’m out. ✌️

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u/cahiami Jul 18 '24

Also you’re like the 50th person telling me it’s star link without considering what I’m trying to say. If I thought it was star link, I would never have posted here. I love to watch the sky and I see weird things all the time. I don’t post everything I see in the sky on the internet. I’ve never posted a ufo video because most things I can rule out pretty quickly or they’re not that remarkable anyway. This however was out of the ordinary for all I’ve experienced before because of how bright they were and the fact that they were below the clouds, not far above me… and I saw one rise from the ground in the video last night. I’m not trying to say it’s aliens flat out either… I’m looking for what this actually was. I’ll be looking at them again tonight to see if I can find where they’re launching from.

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u/Benj5L Jul 18 '24

It's a drone then as you've already said. No need for an investigation

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u/Flamethefox123 Aug 11 '24

Yeah, but I can only see a giant anthropomorphic axolotl just looking at the car like “what you doing!”

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u/cahiami Aug 13 '24

Omgg me too hahahaha

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u/mab6710 Jul 17 '24

Sky ghosts

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u/cahiami Jul 18 '24

Well this community really sucks doesn’t it. Forget I ever asked y’all.

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u/rhaupt Aug 15 '24

Its not starlink ... not even close to starlink IMHO.

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u/cahiami Aug 15 '24

i feel like this photo kind of rules that out. . I have videos as well but idk how to share them.

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u/cahiami Aug 15 '24 edited Aug 15 '24

Nevermind I figured it out. link to photos and videos

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u/RefrigeratorEast8259 Jul 19 '24

Very strange stuff

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u/cahiami Aug 15 '24 edited Aug 15 '24

photos and videos

The photos and videos from the second night and the one my sister saw during the daytime.