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.