Three equally spaced, apparent satellites, moving in a straight line one after another
Wy wife and I decided to do a little stargazing and went to our front yard after having a campfire under the trees in the backyard. We laid down on the driveway to look up at the stars and almost immediately noticed a string of three equally spaced lights moving from southwest to northeast. The satellites were moving in straight line one after another after another. We like to look for satellites and these appeared to be satellites, except there were three in a straight line moving at the same speed and approximately one-half inch apart from our vantage point. They were located approximately 60 to 70 degrees above the horizon. We first noticed them when they were almost straight north of us. We watched them till they started to fade away, like a satellites do when moving into the earths shadow. They faded from sight after we watched them travel through approximately 45 degrees of arc. These definitely had the appearance of bright satellites but high! ly unusual since there were three of them equally spaced in a straight line. We suspected they might be the international space station and resupply vessels, but all three had the same brightness and where one support/supply vessel makes sense two at the same time do not.
((NUFORC Note: Space Link satellites. PD))
Wy wife and I decided to do a little stargazing and went to our front yard after having a campfire under the trees in the backyard. We laid down on the driveway to look up at the stars and almost immediately noticed a string of three equally spaced lights moving from southwest to northeast. The satellites were moving in straight line one after another after another. We like to look for satellites and these appeared to be satellites, except there were three in a straight line moving at the same speed and approximately one-half inch apart from our vantage point. They were located approximately 60 to 70 degrees above the horizon. We first noticed them when they were almost straight north of us. We watched them till they started to fade away, like a satellites do when moving into the earths shadow. They faded from sight after we watched them travel through approximately 45 degrees of arc. These definitely had the appearance of bright satellites but high! ly unusual since there were three of them equally spaced in a straight line. We suspected they might be the international space station and resupply vessels, but all three had the same brightness and where one support/supply vessel makes sense two at the same time do not.
((NUFORC Note: Space Link satellites. PD))
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Janesville
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42.70
-89.04
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WI
Occurred : 5/26/2019 22:40 (Entered as : 5/26/2019 22:40) Reported: 5/27/2019 6:56:44 PM 18:56 Posted: 6/7/2019 Location: Janesville, WI Shape: Light Duration: 2 minutes
Three equally spaced, apparent satellites, moving in a straight line one after another. ((NUFORC Note: Space Link satellites. PD))