Two white lights moving together.
I'm typing this right after this happened, so it's fresh in my mind.
I was having trouble going to sleep, so I decided to go outside around 3am and do some stargazing. I saw some meteors, aircraft, and a few satellites pass over. Nothing really out of the ordinary.
Then at exactly 3:50am (I did a time check right after this), I saw these two bright, white lights moving away from me to the southeast. They weren't blinking.
The southern most one was slightly ahead of the other one. They were moving about the speed of an aircraft, but these were too far apart to be lights on one airplane, but still very close together in the sky. I don't think it was two lights on one big object because they both seemed to move independently of each other. I also heard no aircraft noise at the time.
They were both brighter than a satellite usually is. I've seen ISS fly over before and they were about that bright, but the one trailing behind the other one suddenly got even brighter, like someone moved a dimmer switch up. It got brighter for about 5-10 seconds, pulsing slightly, and then they both started to get dimmer and then they disappeared behind some trees. That was the last I saw of them.
I thought it could be satellites, but I've never seen two satellites move so closely together and go the same exact direction before. They were clearly going the exact same way, at the exact same speed.
It didn't look like any lights on airplanes I've seen before. I don't think they were jets, unless it was something that flies really high up with no ordinary blinking lights and something that I couldn't hear.
If someone could confirm it was just satellites, or has some other explanation, I'd really like to know.
I'm typing this right after this happened, so it's fresh in my mind.
I was having trouble going to sleep, so I decided to go outside around 3am and do some stargazing. I saw some meteors, aircraft, and a few satellites pass over. Nothing really out of the ordinary.
Then at exactly 3:50am (I did a time check right after this), I saw these two bright, white lights moving away from me to the southeast. They weren't blinking.
The southern most one was slightly ahead of the other one. They were moving about the speed of an aircraft, but these were too far apart to be lights on one airplane, but still very close together in the sky. I don't think it was two lights on one big object because they both seemed to move independently of each other. I also heard no aircraft noise at the time.
They were both brighter than a satellite usually is. I've seen ISS fly over before and they were about that bright, but the one trailing behind the other one suddenly got even brighter, like someone moved a dimmer switch up. It got brighter for about 5-10 seconds, pulsing slightly, and then they both started to get dimmer and then they disappeared behind some trees. That was the last I saw of them.
I thought it could be satellites, but I've never seen two satellites move so closely together and go the same exact direction before. They were clearly going the exact same way, at the exact same speed.
It didn't look like any lights on airplanes I've seen before. I don't think they were jets, unless it was something that flies really high up with no ordinary blinking lights and something that I couldn't hear.
If someone could confirm it was just satellites, or has some other explanation, I'd really like to know.
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Dardanelle
USA
30 seconds
30 seconds
35.20
-93.19
light
AR
Occurred : 6/30/2011 03:50 (Entered as : 06/30/2011 03:50) Reported: 6/30/2011 2:45:44 AM 02:45 Posted: 7/4/2011 Location: Dardanelle, AR Shape: Light Duration: 30 seconds
Two white lights moving together.