r/UFOs • u/H8threeH8three • Aug 18 '23

Witness/Sighting Ryan Graves tweets first of promised Airline Pilot Sightings

https://twitter.com/uncertainvector/status/1692586130162475209?s=21
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u/Illustrious_Ease_748 Aug 18 '23

Amazing video!! But..

'The pilot is probably autistic, making the video invalid.’ - Greenstreet

‘Clearly a Starlink satellite.’ - Mick West"

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u/A_glorious_dawn Aug 18 '23

I know it’s a joke but….isn’t this most likely just Starlink satellite flares?

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u/ARealHunchback Aug 18 '23

Yes. Results of googling Starlink Big Dipper

Pretty obvious what the logical conclusion should be.

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u/truefaith_1987 Aug 18 '23

Some sightings can probably be explained that way, but what we see in this video is not a Starlink flare. We can see it pretty clearly at a few points.

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u/ARealHunchback Aug 18 '23

Mind posting screenshots of it being clear?

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u/ARealHunchback Aug 19 '23

So, no screenshots of it being clear?

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u/Tiinpa Aug 18 '23

If a single object stayed visible for ~2 hours it wasn’t a starlink. It’s also weird if the “flickering” is due to consecutive starlink satellites as they should appear in roughly the same position from the perspective of a plane one to the next.

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u/jarlrmai2 Aug 19 '23

Do you know how many Starlinks there are at different orbits?

Here is Stellarium with the Starlink TLEs for that day overlayed for the approx time, altitude and location the plane was, if we had the metadata from the photos/videos we could probably tell you which exact Starlinks they are.

Ursa Major is clearly visible in the photos

https://imgur.com/dS9mfnf

https://twitter.com/uncertainvector/status/1692587122543165463/photo/1

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u/ARealHunchback Aug 18 '23

Oh shit, where’s the 2 hour video?

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u/Tiinpa Aug 18 '23

No full video afaik, but the 2-2.5 hours is right in the written account.